#834: Unglued, 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

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🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This podcast is part one of a three-part series where I discuss the design of every card in Unglued.

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0:00.0	I'm not pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.
0:05.6	Coronavirus edition. Okay, I'm going to do a two podcast series. I believe I can do this in two
0:10.2	podcasts where I'm going to talk about the design of every card from unglued. So I did a whole
0:16.3	podcast talking about how unglued came to be. So if you want to know, I did that long, long ago,
0:21.8	my first year doing podcasts. Today I'm talking card by card design stories, but I have a lot of
0:27.9	fun stories. So there are only 88 cards in Unlewed. It's actually not a very big set. So I believe
0:33.2	in two podcasts, I can get through them. So let's get started. So we're going to start with Charm
0:36.7	School. So two in a white, Enchant them. So let's get started. So we're going to start with Charm School.
0:43.1	So two in a white, enchant player. When Charm School comes into play, choose a color and balance charm school on your head, prevent all damage to you of the chosen color. If Charm School falls off
0:48.3	your head, sacrifice Charm School. First off, this is the first enchant player. There's a couple
0:54.0	other Enchant Players, but Unglued was the first set the first enchant player. There's a couple other enchant players,
0:54.9	but unglued was the first set to have enchant player that existed. And the reason is, when we
1:00.9	said enchant players, because you literally put it on the player. And the idea of this card was,
1:06.2	I wanted some physicalness. Interestingly, I think this is the only white card that has physicalness, I think.
1:13.7	Well, night of hokey pokey's coming. That has a little bit of physicalness. Anyway, the idea was,
1:18.5	I wanted you to balance a card in your head. Well, why? Why would you balance a card in your head?
1:23.7	And the idea was, okay, well, maybe you were protected. And so, um, that's why it ended up in white,
1:29.4	because that protection seemed to be a cool thing.
1:31.0	Like, as long as this balance in your head, you're protected from this color.
1:34.3	Um, and I, I, I, anyway, I thought that was cool.
1:37.3	Next, the cheese stands alone.
1:39.7	Four white, white enchantment.
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