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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#995: Off-Color Activations

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

🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk about how we design activations that require a color not found in the mana cost of the card.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.2

Okay, so today's topic was a suggestion from somebody I think on Twitter, but maybe on my,

0:15.0

maybe Tumblr, maybe my blog. Anyway, they wanted me to talk about off-color activations.

0:21.6

And I thought, oh, well, so like one of the challenges, I'm almost to a hundred, not a hundred, I'm almost to a thousand podcasts.

0:28.6

So one of the things I have to do is when I get ideas, there's actually a wiki that lists all the podcasts.

0:35.6

And I always search to make sure that I haven't talked about it yet.

0:38.7

Because with a thousand podcasts, I did a lot of topics.

0:42.4

But off-color activation is something I hadn't talked about.

0:46.1

And, oh, the other thing is, whenever I think about a theme,

0:49.9

I have to say, oh, do I have 30 minutes?

0:52.0

Do I have enough to fill up my entire drive-door talking about it?

0:56.6

And I thought that this was a fun theme.

1:01.8

Do I have 30 minutes?

1:02.9

We are going to find out together.

1:05.1

Obviously, if you're listening to this, I have 30 minutes because I wouldn't post it.

1:08.3

But I don't know.

1:09.7

You guys, see, if you're listening to this, you know I have 30 minutes because I wouldn't post it. But I don't know. You guys, see, if you're listening to this, you know I have 30 minutes.

1:12.4

But if you're not listening to this, I guess nobody, then it doesn't matter.

1:16.7

But anyway, so off color activation.

1:21.6

So let me explain what that is.

1:23.4

So normally on a magic card, it has a manacoff.

1:26.8

Usually a card is one color.

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