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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#791: Antiquities, Part 2

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Ccg, Mark Rosewater, Magic The Gathering

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This is part two of a two-part series on the design of Antiquities, Magic's second-ever expansion, where I talk about how the set got made and then go through the design of every card.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling on my driveway.

0:02.4

We all know what that means.

0:03.8

It's time for the drive to work, coronavirus edition.

0:07.2

Okay, so last time I started talking all about antiquities, and I got halfway through the set.

0:12.5

So today, I'm going to talk about the other half the set, which turns out to be all artifacts and lands, because the set is mostly artifacts, and there's a decent number of lands, too.

0:22.7

Okay, so where we left off was clay statue.

0:25.9

So clay statue costs four.

0:29.8

It is a 3-1.

0:32.2

Now, at the time, artifact creatures didn't have creature types.

0:34.6

It's now a gollum.

0:36.0

So it's two regenerate clay statue. So it's 3-1, and

0:39.4

you can regenerate it.

0:42.0

And if you read the flavor

0:43.4

text, you learn that clay statue was made by Tanos,

0:45.4

which is the apprentice to Erza.

0:47.8

Or on the flavor checks,

0:49.3

it calls him his assistant.

0:51.0

Anyway, this was...

0:53.4

So back in the day, regeneration was an alpha, it showed up in green and red

0:58.5

and black. And so this was the first time, I guess if you were playing white or blue that you

1:04.3

can have a regenerating creature in your neck, which was kind of cool. And I think Clay Statue,

1:09.3

it was a little of expensive at 4-mana,

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