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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#872: Zombies, 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

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I look back at the history of Zombies and share some card-by-card design stories of some of the earliest Zombies.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.8

Coronavirus edition. Okay, so we, midnight hunts coming out. So I thought I would pick a theme that was very midnight hunt-ish.

0:14.8

So I'm going to talk about zombies. One of my favorite creature types, for those that don't know.

0:19.9

I'm not sure what is about zombies.

0:21.3

I'm a big fan of zombies.

0:22.3

I really like zombies.

0:23.0

So you will see, as I tell my story today,

0:25.4

I had a lot of influence in early zombies of trying to make better zombies.

0:31.9

But anyway, we'll get to that part of the story.

0:33.9

Okay, so we start by going all the way back to Alpha.

0:38.0

So Alpha actually had, as printed on the card, only one card that was, remember, the summon

0:47.6

at the time, so summon zombie.

0:49.1

There was only, and in fact it was summoned zombies, it was plural.

0:52.7

Now, there was a second card that referenced zombies,

0:54.9

so we'll talk about that.

0:56.0

Now, there are, and there was another card

0:57.9

that later got made into a zombie,

1:00.2

so we'll talk about all that.

1:01.3

Okay, so let me start with the first zombie in my mind,

1:05.0

which is scathed zombies.

1:07.1

Two in a black for a two-two creature, vanilla.

1:09.3

That's what it did.

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