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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#935: Darksteel

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

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This is the second of a three-part series looking at the design of original Mirrodin block.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. A, I dropped my son off at school, but B, it's time for drive to work.

0:09.0

Okay, so today I'm going to continue. I've been telling the story of the original Myrden block.

0:15.6

So last time I talked about original Myriden. So today I'm talking about Dark Steel.

0:21.6

So Dark Steel was the second set.

0:23.6

So the Myriden Block, which was co-named Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato.

0:29.6

So today is lettuce.

0:31.6

So it was a large set and the two small sets.

0:35.6

So the large set was 306 cards, and both of the small sets were 155 cards.

0:41.4

55 commons, 55 commons, 55 rars.

0:44.4

This predates Mythic Rare as a thing.

0:47.9

So with this set, we had shifted 44 cards out of the large set to put 22 cards each in the small set.

0:55.5

So this sets a little bit bigger.

0:57.2

I think it was 143.

0:59.1

And then as of the set, the small sets became 165,

1:01.7

just to make the small sets a little bigger.

1:04.8

Okay, so...

1:06.0

Now, just a little sort of education about back when we did blocks.

1:11.7

One of the things that evolved over time was, like, before, for example, before I became head designer,

1:18.2

the early, early days of blocks, we would make the first set in the block, and then we'd kind of like,

1:24.7

you know, leave room for mechanics to grow in things, but like, we didn't really worry about the second and third block set.

1:31.2

Sorry, we didn't carry about the second and third set in the block much.

1:34.9

We just kind of made stuff and then, like, they'll figure it out.

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