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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#815: Trivia – Longest Names

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

4.8 β€’ 743 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This is another of my trivia podcasts where you try to guess the card I'm talking about before I reveal it. The topic? The longest names in Magic. (This is a companion to my shortest names trivia podcast last week.)

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling on a driveway.

0:02.0

We all know what that means.

0:04.0

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

0:07.0

Okay, so last week I did some fun trivia on the shortest names.

0:13.0

So I thought I would sort of mirror that with another trivia on the longest names.

0:18.0

So this is a list of names based on how many letters they have in their name.

0:23.6

And it turns out there, some of them have a lot.

0:27.0

Okay, so our longest, we'll start with number one.

0:30.3

Our longest has 141 letters in it.

0:34.6

And if you know anything about magic cards, this shouldn't, I mean, you might not remember the name of this card, but you probably should know that this is the card.

0:41.1

So, this card...

0:44.2

But the only clue you need to do is there's 141 letters in it.

0:48.8

That should be enough for you be able to figure it out.

0:51.7

I'll read the flavor text, though.

0:52.9

So the flavor text is, just call it O-M-R-S-T-P-L-R-C-N-S-W-M-T-T-A-L-C-N-E-E-E-E for short.

1:04.8

There's the other clue.

1:06.4

Okay, so this comes from Unhinged, a card that only by definition can we make a name this long.

1:13.9

So it is.

1:15.4

Our market research shows that players like really long card names.

1:19.1

So we made this card to have the absolute longest card name ever, Elemental.

1:22.9

One green green, it's an elemental, 2-2, Art Rampage.

1:26.4

Whenever this becomes blocked by a creature, it gets plus 2 plus 2

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