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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#941: CLB Commander Decks with Gavin Verhey

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Magic The Gathering, Games, Mark Rosewater, Ccg, Leisure, Mtg, Game Design

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

I sit down with Designer Gavin Verhey to talk about the design of Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate's Commander decks.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling on my driveway.

0:02.5

We all know what that means.

0:04.2

It's time for other drive to work at home edition.

0:07.5

Okay, so today I have Gavin Verhe.

0:10.2

We're going to talk all about Commander Legends, Battle for Baldurgates, Commander Dex.

0:14.7

Hey, Gavin.

0:16.6

Hey, you know, it's exciting with your Commander, aside of Commander.

0:19.8

That's right, with the main set this time around, we made four commander decks full of uh some cool stuff we couldn't

0:24.3

put in the main set so uh i got to lead design them which was a blast and i can't wait to talk about

0:29.1

them today okay so what what was the the guiding principle in making these commander decks

0:35.2

yeah great question so what we wanted to do was we did

0:39.4

we looked at the main set and we're like okay we want to try to figure out two things we want to do

0:43.3

some things that are tied into what the main set is doing so it makes sense it can combine with the

0:48.1

mindset enhance what the main set's doing and not blowing out on the way but we also one of the

0:52.6

bigger things for us was let's look at what the

0:56.0

main set can't do, what it isn't doing, and try and make so Commander Decks based on those

1:01.4

themes. So we basically have and half. We have two Commander Decks that have themes that aren't

1:07.0

anywhere in the main set. We thought it would be really, really awesome to do here. And we have two commander decks that are tied in a little more closely

1:13.3

two themes you'll find in the main set.

1:15.7

And I think it's a good little split,

1:17.1

and we ended up with four total decks.

1:19.5

And there are definitely some...

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