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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#835: Unsanctioned with Matt Tabak

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

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

I sit down with Magic editor Matt Tabak to talk about the creation of Unsanctioned, the Un- box set.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work, coronavirus edition.

0:07.6

So, continue on in my series of interviewing people to talk about sets we made together. Today, I have Matt Taback, and we're going to talk about unsanctioned. Welcome, Matt.

0:24.2

Thank you, Mark. So I, too, brought my own special guest. I have allergies along with me today. So apologies for that, as my voice is a little

0:30.2

scratchy this morning. So as I understand things, you go through an introduction that you introduce me.

0:36.9

I start talking, and then 30 minutes from now

0:39.4

I have to stop talking.

0:41.0

And I admit that's going to be a challenge because I talk a lot.

0:43.6

But I'm pretty confident I can do it.

0:45.2

Now you want to talk about, okay, sorry.

0:46.9

Hi, Mark.

0:47.5

Glad to be here.

0:48.5

Okay.

0:48.9

So, I have told the story of unsanctioned.

0:53.0

So we're going to start from you telling the story.

0:54.3

So what is your earliest memory of unsanctioned?

0:58.0

Oh, I remember there being conversations of we wanted to put some new silver-bordered content into the universe,

1:09.4

especially for our fans that enjoy Commander with silverboarded

1:15.8

cards. So I kind of remember this is just sort of like something you were talking about

1:20.0

and like hallway conversations back when we existed in hallways. And then I did not get the opportunity to be the editor for unstable, but I'm a great lover of silver-bordered sets as opposed to my back when I was the rules manager, my public persona was anti-silver-bordered sets because I was the blackboarded rules manager, and I hated, you know, fun.

1:47.1

So, but secretly, privately, I'm a huge fan of them and I love working on them.

1:51.3

So I got, I was not the editor for unstable, but I jumped at the chance to be the editor for unsanctioned, knowing that there were going to be new cards.

1:59.7

Okay, so real quick, just to fill the audience in.

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