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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#807: Angels, Part 2

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

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I continue to share design stories about various Angel cards.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

0:06.6

Coronavirus edition. Okay, so last time I started talking about Angels, and I decided, as soon as I stopped it, I'm like, you know what? I should just do the next one.

0:16.4

So I decided to do another one on Angels. I think when I wrote it up, I said part one, part two.

0:21.1

So you guys always knew I was doing another part one.

0:23.0

I didn't know that until I finished.

0:24.7

But anyway, we finished last time with Magic 2010.

0:27.5

We are up to Zendikar.

0:28.9

So I'll begin with a Maria Angel, two white-white for a 3-3 angel, flying, landfall.

0:35.3

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a 1-1-white bird-creature token with flying into the battlefield.

0:43.1

I think the earliest version of this card actually made 1-1 ground creatures,

0:47.7

but I think we got the idea of, well, what if we put it on an angel,

0:52.7

and then instead of ground creatures, it made flying creatures?

0:56.9

I think, I kind of think we went back and forth whether it made birds or spirits.

1:02.3

But anyway, I like this card.

1:04.9

One of the things that's fun about landfall is on smaller cards, you tend to do little or effects, and then as you get a little more expensive

1:12.6

bigger cards, you get to do a bigger effect. So I like making little one-one birds is cool.

1:17.6

I also like the idea. I'm a big bird fan, so I just like the landfall mix birds.

1:22.6

Okay, next. I own a shield of Amaria, six white, white, white, legendary creature, angel, 7-7, flying.

1:30.0

As Iona Shield of Amiria enters the battlefield, choose a color, your opponents can't cast spells of the chosen color.

1:36.2

So one of the interesting things is, um, one of the things that we always try to do is try to sort of, in the color pie, figure out how different people do stuff such that they have their own identity.

1:48.0

So one of the things that we definitely do a lot of is making white more of the proactive color and blue more the reactive color.

1:56.8

And what that means is white can shut you down, but it more does it proactively. I'm going to make a rule or do something and ahead of time keep you from doing something.

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