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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#892: Lessons Learned – Throne of Eldraine

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 β€’ 743 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 4 December 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

I had an in-person playtest at Wizards to attend, so I'm actually driving to work after twenty-plus months (I'm not in the office full time yet, so there'll be a bunch more at-home podcasts). During my drive, I share the lessons I learned from designing Throne of Eldraine.

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0:00.0

I'm pulling my driveway.

0:02.7

No, I'm actually pulling out of my driveway.

0:05.7

So we all know what this means.

0:07.3

It's another episode of Drive to Work.

0:10.0

Okay, so, today is the first day that I'm going back in the office.

0:14.9

Now, I'm not regularly back in the office yet.

0:17.6

I'm just going in for a playtest.

0:19.4

The office did open a couple weeks ago,

0:22.6

but sort of we're slowly transitioning back. Some people are going in the office every day.

0:27.6

Some people aren't. I've been not going in the office every day. But there's a playtest today,

0:33.1

so I am in fact going into the office for the very first time. So I thought I could do an actual drive to work in which I'm driving to work.

0:41.4

I know it's kind of a novel idea.

0:43.5

So for today, I've actually been saving something.

0:46.4

Like one of the things I was trying to do with my time at home, and I should stress, by the way,

0:51.1

today's that actual drive to work.

0:52.4

I will have future drive to work that are still at home just because I'm mostly at home.

0:56.3

But while I have the opportunity, I'm doing an actual driving to work drive to work.

1:01.7

So I did some things at home that were hard to do in the car, like interviews and stuff.

1:07.1

But there's a few things that I think work really well in the car that I didn't do during the

1:11.0

pandemic, my ones at home. One of those is lessons learned. So lessons learned is a series where I

1:17.7

look at a set that I worked on and I talk about all the things I learned from working on that set.

1:22.7

So usually it's a set that I led or co-led. So last time we had done lessons learned, I talked about War of the Spark.

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