#885: Amonkhet with Ethan Fleischer

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this podcast, I sit down with R&D member Ethan Fleischer to talk about the design of Amonkhet.

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0:00.0	I'm not pulling my driveway.
0:02.1	We all know what that means.
0:03.5	It's time for other drive-to-work, coronavirus edition.
0:06.8	Okay, I'm having lots of fun talking with people about Magic's Past.
0:10.4	So today I have Ethan Fleischer.
0:12.3	We're going to talk all about Amin Kett.
0:14.1	Hey, Ethan.
0:15.3	Hi, how's it going, Mark?
0:16.6	It's going good.
0:18.4	Amin Ket.
0:18.9	So this was a set where you and I co-led the set.
0:22.2	So I sort of led the first half of designs back when it was design development.
0:27.4	And you did the second half, so.
0:29.8	That's right.
0:31.3	And we were both on it for the whole time.
0:33.2	Just we sort of hindered the reins halfway through.
0:36.0	Switched who was responsible for making decisions and maintaining the file and writing documents.
0:43.3	Okay, so what is your memory of Aminket?
0:45.8	When you think back to Aminket, what first jumps to mine?
0:49.0	Oh, I just remember this, it's a lot of visual memories, right feel like uh ancient egypt which amicette was based on
0:58.9	is a is a very sort of visually splendiferous uh setting and because a lot of what we know about it is
1:06.1	from from ancient artifacts and ancient buildings and so a lot of the illustrations that we made pop to mind for
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