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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#831: Mirrodin with Tyler Bielman

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

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

I sit down with former Magic designer Tyler Bielman to talk about the design of original Mirrodin.

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, coronavirus edition.

0:07.0

Okay, guys, I've been having so much fun talking with R&D folks new and old about sets we worked on together.

0:14.0

Today is R&D old. It's Tyler Bealman is with me to talk about original Mirrodin. Hey, Tyler.

0:20.0

Hey, Mark, it's so great to see you.

0:22.7

I'm so happy to be with you today. Okay, so let me, for the audience, I'm well versed in who you are,

0:27.7

but the audience might not be. So Tyler, um, started doing freelance work for, for Wizards,

0:33.9

doing, um, marketing and advertising. That's, that yep. Joined and on the brand team for a while.

0:40.2

Yep.

0:40.6

And then you came over to R&D.

0:42.2

You ran the creative team and did a lot of,

0:45.9

and you were on the design team for Mirren,

0:48.0

which is why we're talking about this today.

0:49.6

Although you also did a lot of the creative too.

0:51.7

So you have a larger role in Mirren.

0:54.9

Yeah, I was at that point in time, I was sort of the creative director was the title,

0:59.2

and I ran the creative team.

1:00.3

And I hadn't done much game design, actually, at all.

1:02.8

It was an incredible opportunity to start learning how to make games with this incredible team.

1:08.9

So, yeah, it was amazing.

1:12.1

Okay, so part of the fun of the Mirridan story, and this is what the audience knows,

1:16.6

like Tyler and I have not talked about this ahead of time, so I'm going to jump in and

1:20.2

we'll see what Tyler remembers of this.

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