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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #101 - Torment, Part 3

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

🗓️ 28 February 2014

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mark continues with the third part of the Torment discussion.

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0:00.0

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

0:08.4

Okay. Last we left, I was talking about torment, and I think I ended up at M. So, let's see,

0:19.0

where were we?

0:33.9

Okay, I left off with mine sludge, which was part of our black theme to get you to play a lot of black.

0:39.6

So we had a bunch of a mini theme that said, hey, for every swamp you have, good things happen for you.

0:42.2

Or bad things happen for your opponent offensive case.

0:47.2

So next in line is Morning Tide.

0:53.3

So first off, I find it entertaining that there's a small subset of cards that have names of other magic sets.

0:56.0

So Morning Tide was not in the set Morning Tide, but was in the set Torment.

1:00.2

I guess you'd that trivia one day.

1:01.6

Like, what set had visions in it?

1:03.7

Anyway, one of these days, maybe I'll do a trivia podcast.

1:08.4

I keep thinking maybe that might be fun.

1:10.4

Anyway, okay. Morning Tide is a sorcery that costs

1:14.4

one and a white, and it's remove all cards

1:18.5

in the graveyard from the game. Exile all cards and graveyards. We didn't use exile

1:22.3

at the time, but it was exile.

1:25.8

So the interesting thing about that is one of the things that we do is whenever we have a theme,

1:32.2

we make a lot of cards that point toward that theme,

1:35.1

and then we always want to give you a couple of hosers, meaning that because we know we're

1:39.9

emphasizing the theme, we want to make sure that we are giving you tools to deal with people

1:44.5

who are using that theme. Now, sometimes, way back when, there's a period of time we went through

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