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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#972: Unfinity Design, Part 1

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

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is part one of a multi-part series on the design of Unfinity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

0:05.0

Okay, after many years, I finally get to start talking about Infinity, so I'm very excited.

0:12.0

So, infinity, for those that somehow are not aware, is the fourth unset. So way back in 1996,

0:23.2

Bill Rose and Joel Mick came to me with an idea.

0:27.7

They said,

0:28.9

we had this idea for this set with a different border

0:32.2

that's not tournament legal.

0:34.4

See what you can do with that.

0:36.2

And they gave it to me.

0:37.3

And I ended up turning that into the unsets. The idea, can do with that. And they gave it to me. And I ended up turning

0:38.7

that into the unsets. The idea, it was something that just, A, had a humoric element to it, that

0:44.7

you know, played around in space that normal magic couldn't play around. And Unblue did a lot

0:50.2

of things that have later actually made it away to magic. It had four land for the first time. It had token creatures for the first time. It had

0:58.3

multiplayer play for the first time. You know, it did a lot of things that have gone

1:01.9

on to become something that magic does do, but at the time was a little out there.

1:06.8

And so the unsets have become a place for us to sort of push boundaries and try different things.

1:12.8

So in 19 or not, sorry, 2000, what was it, 2006?

1:19.2

In 2006, I made Unhinged.

1:23.7

And then in 2017, we made unstable.

1:28.3

And then there was a product a few years later called Unsanctioned.

1:33.3

That was a box set that we made 15 new Uncards for.

1:37.3

So that had some Uncards in it.

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