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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #117 - Zendikar Part 1

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

🗓️ 25 April 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Mark discusses many of the stories of the designs of cards and cycles in Zendikar.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:02.0

We all know what that means.

0:04.0

It's time for another drive to work.

0:07.0

Okay.

0:08.0

So the very second podcast I've ever did was a podcast on Zendikar.

0:15.0

But what I found was, early on, I was getting the hang of things,

0:20.0

and I was doing my podcast in a single, you, and I was doing my podcast in a single,

0:22.8

I was doing my reviews in a single podcast. And then as time went on, I started realizing

0:27.0

I had a lot more to say. And so as I'm doing them now, I mean, Theros was the longest I've done

0:31.5

so far, but that was eight. You know, and normally I do three or four. And so I realized

0:35.6

is I left a lot of good info on the table.

0:38.8

And so I've also decided it's more interesting when I do individual expansions that I kind of want to talk about blocks.

0:49.4

So I decided that the next three I'm going to talk about are the Zendikar block.

0:53.3

So I will talk about Zendikar, then I will talk about World Wake, and then I will talk about Rise of the Yaldrazi.

1:00.5

But I decided that I'm going to revisit first Zendikar, and I'm going to do card by cards for Zendikar,

1:05.4

which I never did the first time around. So in some ways, I'm not going to talk about how the whole set came together.

1:11.4

I did that and that pack off. But I'm going to talk a lot of card stories and that will fill

1:14.9

in a lot of gaps of stuff that I didn't have a chance to talk about because I did it all in one

1:19.3

podcast. And there was a lot to talk about within the car. So I made a list of cards. It's a long list.

1:25.5

But I figure people seem to like when I talk

1:29.0

design. So I thought I would start up with Zendikar by the cards. Okay, we start with, um, archive

1:36.9

trap. Uh, it costs three blue and a blue. It's an instant trap. We'll get to that in a second.

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