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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#951: Booster Fun with Tom & Sarah

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

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

I sit down with Tom Jenkot and Sarah Wassell to talk about the making of Booster Fun variants (all the cool alternate-art cards and special card frames that we do in a set).

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work at home edition.

0:07.0

So, normally I use my time at home to interview people, but today I'm interviewing two people, because there's so much fun.

0:14.0

And so I have Tom Jankot and Sarah Walsall who who are doing Booster Fun.

0:21.6

So we're going to talk about what Booster Fun is and how, what exactly does it take to do?

0:25.8

So, hi, guys.

0:27.7

Hello.

0:28.9

Okay, so let's first explain.

0:30.7

So, Tom, I'm going to, since you, you were here from the very beginning, what is Booster Fun?

0:35.1

What is it?

0:37.3

Oh, yeah. What is Booster Fun?? What is it? Oh yeah, what is it?

0:38.3

What is Booster Fawn?

0:40.3

Booster Fawn is something that we attach to, like a set of cards.

0:47.3

We have the main set of cards, and we take, like, a certain number of those

0:51.3

and make these highly resonant bespoke treatments.

0:54.9

So we'll make a new frame, we'll find a new art style, and make something that fans get

1:00.3

really excited about.

1:02.9

Okay, so here's what I'm sort of interested in is let's say you're working on a set.

1:07.8

Let's walk through what you have to do to make booster fun for a set.

1:13.6

Oh, sure. Yeah. So, um, first it starts with the talking to the people that are creating the set,

1:19.6

the game designers like you, and then the creative, world building creatives. Um, they're, they're

1:26.6

working on that whole set, like when they're working on a new plane or whatever.

1:30.5

And so we talk to those people who figure out what's really cool about the set.

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