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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #162 - Enchantment World

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

🗓️ 3 October 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about the challenges of designing a block centered around enchantments.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:02.2

We all know what that means.

0:03.8

It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.6

Okay.

0:07.7

So today's topic is an interesting one.

0:11.0

One of the things I'm always trying to do on the podcast is to figure out what are the things I can do in a podcast that are best done in a podcast and aren't done in an article or aren't done, you know, through

0:22.2

some other means, my blog or whatever.

0:26.5

So one of the topics that came over, so I work ahead.

0:29.9

So for you guys, this is the distant past, but I just recently, my article for the state

0:35.3

of the design article just went up last week or this week.

0:39.6

And so there's a lot of discussion that it generated, which is good. That's why I write it.

0:43.5

So one of the big questions was I talked about, one of the mistakes I felt I made is that

0:50.8

I knew people wanted it in Chim andment matters element and I withheld it to try

0:55.3

to make the third set something exciting. In retrospect, I probably should have started in the second

0:59.0

set. But anyway, but it led to the following discussion. The following question keeps popping

1:03.5

up. Okay, okay. You know, Theros was fun, but when can we expect the enchantment block that is to enchantments

1:14.3

what Mirrodin is to artifacts?

1:17.0

When can we expect that block?

1:19.4

And what I realized was, it's a complex answer.

1:21.8

It was more complex that I can answer in my blog.

1:24.7

It's the kind of thing I might be able to do in my article, but it's very...

1:29.3

I don't have... I only have one article a week. Every other week is a theme week. I just don't have a lot of spare weeks in my articles.

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