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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#882: Color Pie Changes 2021, 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

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

I recently posted an update to my Mechanical Color Pie article. This is part one of a two-part series where I talk about the changes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not playing on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

0:05.8

Coronavirus edition. Okay, so recently, I did an article. So back in 2017, I did an article called

0:15.6

Mechanical Color Pie. And at the time I did that, I also recorded a podcast about it.

0:21.5

But anyway, I decided, it was four years later, I decided it was time to update it.

0:26.9

Basically, the mechanical color pie is me trying to list all the different colors and the different effects and like what colors do, what effects.

0:35.0

It is a daunting task. It was daunting when I did in 2017. It ended up being pretty

0:39.9

daunting when I redid it in 2021. But what I want to do for today's podcast to talk a little bit

0:46.4

about the change and then just go through the changes and kind of walk through what the changes

0:50.1

were and explain them probably in a little bit more depth than I did in the column.

0:55.2

Anyway, so what happened was I'd always plan to update it.

0:59.8

Mechanical cover pie was meant to be a resource for the audience.

1:03.3

And, you know, the color pie doesn't shift all of that.

1:06.1

I mean, it slowly shifts over time.

1:09.1

So I knew at some point enough would change that it would make sense

1:11.7

to come back. What I did this time that was different than last time was I involved the council

1:18.5

of colors, which I did not do last time. I think I loosely involved in last time. This time,

1:23.1

I had each one of them review their color and say, hey, is there something that shouldn't be here?

1:29.2

Is there something that is missing?

1:31.0

Is there something that's changed?

1:32.3

You know, and they all gave me notes.

1:34.4

And so that was super helpful.

1:35.9

And we also had a meeting where we talked through some of the notes of what people thought.

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