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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #168 - Onslaught, Part 5

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

🗓️ 24 October 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Mark continues with part 5 of his 6 part series on the design of Onslaught.

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0:00.0

I'm pulling away from the school. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

0:07.2

So today was my children's first day of school. So I was dropping them off. And so I'm coming, luckily the school is right near my house. So you will get a full drive-to-work podcast.

0:20.2

Okay. Last we met, I've been talking about onslaught, but I'm not yet done.

0:25.3

In fact, I think last we met, I had gotten up to Jay.

0:29.6

So I'm going to start speeding things along here, so we don't want this to be infant number of podcasts.

0:34.5

Okay, so we're going to start today with Kamal, Fist of Krosa.

0:38.4

So he's four green-green for a four-three druid legend, and he has two abilities.

0:44.7

So for one green-manna, target land becomes a one-one until end of turn.

0:49.2

And for two green, green, green, so five total, three of which is green, creatures you control get plus three plus three and trample. So for those that recognize his second ability, his second ability is

0:59.1

exactly the spell overrun. Overrun was originally in Tempest, my first set. And it did exactly

1:04.9

that. It gave all your creatures plus three plus three and trample. So originally, by the way, Kamal's original ability was that he could animate lands, and then

1:16.3

he gave a bonus to all lands.

1:18.7

He either gave all lands plus one plus one or plus two, plus two.

1:21.6

And so his original playtest name was Kamal Landlord.

1:26.0

And the idea was there was a lot of other ways in the set to animate lands.

1:29.7

So not only could he animate lands,

1:31.7

but he could reward you from other animated lands.

1:35.3

But we decided that was a little too much,

1:37.2

especially for the main character.

1:39.0

Kamal, who those who don't know, is the main character of the story.

1:42.7

He was in the previous story,

1:43.9

so Odyssey and Onslot are continuation.

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