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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #151 - Unhinged, Part 4

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

🗓️ 22 August 2014

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Mark continues with part 4 of his five-part series on the design of Unhinged.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.4

Okay. So today is part four of my series on the expansion Unhinged. So what I'm doing is I'm explaining about this expansion by going through every single card in the set.

0:19.7

And the reason I chose to do that is there's just lots and lots of stories.

0:22.8

It's a set I worked very close on.

0:24.6

And anyway, there's just lots of jokes.

0:26.8

So I decided I'm going to talk about every single card.

0:28.7

But I'm trying to do it quickly so that I can get this done and not too many podcasts.

0:32.4

Okay, next we're up to N, name dropping.

0:35.4

So name dropping is an enchantment for one in a green, and what it says

0:38.9

is, all cards gain the following ability. Gotcha for their name. So if your opponent ever

0:46.4

names a card in your graveyard, you can say gotcha and get that card back. It basically grants

0:52.0

all, it grants a gotcha ability to all your cards. And the

0:55.6

gotcha ability is them saying the name of the card. Now, the, probably the highest profile gotcha

1:01.7

cycle, which is a common cycle, are all two word names in which if you name one of those two words,

1:07.1

you get it back. So this essentially is grafting kind of that flavor onto all your

1:11.7

cards. Next, necro-impedance. Black, black, black. It's an enchantment. You skip your untapped step,

1:20.7

and at the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X life, and if you do, you can untap X permanence.

1:25.4

And then, for every half-life you pay, you can draw a card.

1:30.0

So basically, this card is a parody of a very, very famous card called Necropodent. We even

1:35.3

had the same artist, Mark Tadine, draw the picture. One of the things I like to do in

1:41.0

Unsets is parodies, and I like to parody existing magic cards. So this card makes

1:47.5

use of the fractions, because you're paying half a life, which you can't normally do. But because you're

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