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🗓️ 6 June 2014
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work. |
0:06.0 | Okay. So last time I started talking about the design of World Wake. And this time I will continue. I started talking cards. I got up to sea. So that means I have plenty left to talk about. So last I left, we were in the seas. |
0:21.3 | So I want to talk about Comet Storm. |
0:23.8 | So Comet Storm was X, Red, Red. |
0:27.3 | It was an instant, and it did X damage to target, I think, creature or player. |
0:32.3 | But for a multi-kicker of one, you could add another target. |
0:37.1 | So, way back in Alpha, Richard made a card called Fireball. |
0:41.3 | And Fireball, it's a somewhat complicated card where you could either do damage and or split it. |
0:46.8 | It was a little complicated in how you would do that. |
0:49.4 | Common Storm was trying to be the modern-day Fireball. |
0:53.3 | And probably following in the footsteps of Fireball, |
0:55.6 | it too got very confusing in its templating. |
0:59.6 | Yeah, Fireball is classic for the number of times we've tried to rewrite that. |
1:03.1 | We've tried it with X and Y. |
1:04.6 | We've done all sorts of stuff. |
1:05.5 | So it shouldn't be a big surprise that Common Storm was so problematic. |
1:09.2 | In fact, I think if you ask the templating |
1:12.0 | people, so what happens every set is near the end of development, or in the middle of development, |
1:19.1 | representing from the development, usually the lead developer, sits down with the lead editor |
1:23.6 | of the set, and usually Dell, if Dell is not, Del Logel, who is the Magic's head editor. If she's not on the set, she usually, she's not on the set, and usually Dell, Del Lago, |
1:28.1 | who is the Magic's head editor. |
1:30.1 | If she's not on the set, she usually |
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