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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#851: Dominaria with Kelly Digges

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

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

I sit down with former R&D member Kelly Digges to talk about the making of Dominaria.

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 other drive to work.

0:06.0

Coronavirus edition. So, I've been doing lots of interviews with magic people past and present.

0:12.0

So today I have Kelly Diggs with us to talk about the making of Dominaria.

0:17.0

Hey, Kelly.

0:18.0

Hey, Mark. It's great to be here.

0:20.0

So, uh, let's start for the beginning.

0:23.0

What's your earliest memory of making Dominaria?

0:25.9

What's your memory of us making this?

0:28.7

So my earliest memory of making Dominaria was,

0:32.2

boy, it must have been, I mean, six years ago now or something.

0:36.2

It was before I was actually even

0:38.6

on the creative team. I was just kind of confabbing with them about some stuff in my role as a

0:44.0

rules editor, but I got into a conversation with them about worlds that we could revisit.

0:49.9

And Dominaria was, you know, was on my personal list of things I'd want to see.

0:54.9

And I had this image that I think I've mentioned in a podcast before of like,

0:59.6

it's a world of castles and dragons and all the, you know, fantasy stuff you expect from Alpha.

1:04.5

But you dig six feet down and you hit rusted metal.

1:07.7

That like it's, it's, there was also this giant science fiction war on dominaria and so

1:12.4

showing those two things interacting that's my very first memory that was before dominiari was even on

1:16.7

the schedule um and then and then and then and then and then it was only much later when it was actually

1:24.1

on the schedule that i i was like can i can i have that one can i take it so just for the schedule, did I get on my hand shot up in the air? I was like, can I have that one? Can I take it?

1:29.1

So just for the audience, a little history, I believe there was a 13-year gap between the last

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