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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#802: Kaldheim, Part 1

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This is part one of a two-part series on the design of Kaldheim.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling out of the driveway.

0:02.1

We all know what that means.

0:03.7

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

0:07.1

Okay, guys, it is time to talk, Koldheim.

0:11.5

So I'm going to tell you the story, or at least my part of the story, of Koldheim's design.

0:17.9

Okay, so we start by going, let me start by saying that we have been talking about doing

0:24.7

a North set forever. I mean, I probably the first time, like I remember discussing doing a

0:32.9

north set was over 20 years ago. Like, it's been on the short list forever.

0:41.4

I know, for example, when we were doing Kamagawa,

0:44.9

and Kamagawa was the first top-down set that we ever did,

0:47.1

or I guess I'd be nice with the first top-down.

0:48.5

But the first set where we said,

0:52.3

okay, we're going to design this top-down more consciously as a block.

0:56.4

And I know we wrote down all the worlds we wanted to do.

1:00.4

The winner was obviously Japanese mythology.

1:02.8

Number two was Egyptian.

1:05.8

I think number three was Norse.

1:07.9

Greek and Norse were both up there. But Norse is one of those things that we keep talking about.

1:13.6

But we never actually put it on the schedule.

1:16.9

It was always one day we're going to make a Norse set.

1:21.4

But it never quite got put on the schedule.

1:24.0

And then, so nowadays, the way we sort of plan out is we'll get a bunch of people together.

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