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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#946: Gatecrash

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

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is part two of a three-part series on the design of Return to Ravnica block. In this episode, I talk about the design of Gatecrash.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:02.0

We all know what that means.

0:03.8

It's time for the drive to work.

0:06.2

Okay.

0:07.2

So today, I'm going to be talking all about gate crash.

0:12.0

So last time I talked about Return to Ravenga.

0:14.5

Today I'm talking about Gate Crash, and next time I will talk about Dragon's Maze.

0:18.8

So I'm doing a series all about the Return to Ravenica Block.

0:24.4

So, okay, so Gay Crash.

0:26.4

So Gay Crash is interesting, and it's the first time I think that I had done the following,

0:31.4

which is I co-led the set.

0:34.0

So Mark Gottlieb and I.

0:35.6

So Mark Gottlieb had led smaller sets. I think he had led,

0:40.1

he led Meriden besieged, I believe is what he led. And anyway, we wanted to try him on a large

0:48.6

set, but he had had less experience than Ken had. And so what we decided to do was we did this, what we call

0:56.3

co-lead. So the way it works is Mark and I were on the design for the whole time. And this is back

1:03.5

during the period of design development. So design lasts a whole year rather than the four months

1:07.9

vision design last. Anyway, for the first half of the design, I led the design,

1:13.6

with Mark there sort of being my strong second.

1:16.9

And then the second half of the design, Mark led the design.

1:20.3

So for the whole time, we were both there.

1:22.5

It's just sort of handing the reins over.

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