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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#849: Future Sight with Mike Turian

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

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

I sit down with R&D member Mike Turian to talk about the making of Future Sight.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

Okay, so I've been using my time at home to do interviews and talking to R&D folks past and present to talk about sets we made together.

0:16.0

So today I have Mike Turian and we're going to talk about FutureSight. So, hey, Mike.

0:21.8

Hey, Mark. The future is here. We're, uh, I think in a year, it'll be 15 years since Future

0:27.5

Site came out. I know. We did it. We made it into the future together. Man, it sees, I mean,

0:34.3

your kids get old. and makes you feel old.

0:41.9

Okay, so just with the audience knows, I was the lead designer for FutureSight.

0:43.7

Mike was the lead developer for FutureSight.

0:48.6

So we were the two main hands informing the FutureSight set.

0:52.5

So what is your earliest memory of FutureSight?

0:53.6

What do you remember?

0:58.0

Like when you were first, when I first told you about it, what is your earliest memory? Well, you know, for me, one of the biggest early memories I had of the set was just this was my first lead on the set, right?

1:09.0

So, you know, I had joined magic r and d around the time uh like i think that

1:16.5

saviors of kamagawa was just being finished up internally when i joined and then i got to

1:22.3

be on like the guild pack team and another a number of teams, a cold snap team.

1:34.0

But so for me, FutureSight was both my first lead and then also the set that was about something so, you know, fantastically different, right?

1:38.7

I remember going after I found out that I was going to be leading FutureSight and I was super

1:44.0

excited and

1:45.5

you know like like watching the back to the future series of movies right of like oh because

1:51.0

you know one of the big things was what does it mean to be doing something in the present

1:57.5

that's about the future and so you know and I remember us having a lot of conversations in that, in that space, too.

2:03.9

But those were some of my early memories.

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