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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#845: Modern Horizons with Mark Globus

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

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

I sit down with former R&D member Mark Globus to talk about the making of the original Modern Horizons.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.9

coronavirus edition. So in my time at home, I've been getting to do a lot of interviews, which is

0:10.7

hard to do in my car. So I've been asking people from Magic's past and present to come talk

0:15.6

about making sets. So today I have Mark Globus talking about the first modern horizons.

0:21.2

Welcome, Mark.

0:22.5

Thank you.

0:23.2

I'm glad to be here.

0:24.3

Okay, so let's just jump into the fray and talk.

0:27.8

So people know sort of what you did.

0:30.5

You were the co-designer and co-lead developer, lead designer and lead developer through the whole process.

0:36.5

So you worked with Ethan on Vision Design. You worked with Adam Prozac

0:39.8

on the set design.

0:43.0

So you're there for the whole process.

0:45.0

So anyways, we're going to tell the whole

0:47.4

story, and you were there for all of it.

0:49.7

And even going back before that, to

0:51.4

the hackathon which birthed the whole project.

0:53.4

Right, so let's start with the hackathon.

0:55.3

Let's talk about the hackathon.

0:57.4

Sure.

0:58.8

So the hackathon actually, I think, was an idea that originally came from Mark Gottlieb.

1:07.1

And the idea was, let's shut down magic R&D for a week and let people jam on new products.

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