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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #178 - Tribal

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

🗓️ 26 November 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about Tribal cards.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.7

Yeah, my daughter had an orthodontist appointment and then I had to take her to school today.

0:10.6

But for those that regular listeners know the school is right by my house. So you should get a full drive today.

0:17.2

Okay, so today I'm going to kind of finish a series that I thought I had finished, but I actually hadn't.

0:24.2

And I'm going to talk about a failure.

0:27.6

Normally when I talk about stuff, I talk about things that we do that are successes.

0:31.6

But, you know, not everything we do works out.

0:33.9

So this is a good example of something where it didn't work out. And I was going to talk about that.

0:39.0

So the topic of the days, if you can figure out for my little clues there, is the tribal

0:43.9

card type. I did a whole series on card types, and I've not done one last one, which is tribal.

0:52.9

So real clear, I got to spell this out because this is confusing,

0:55.8

because sometimes in magic, one word means two different things.

0:58.8

So we use tribal to mean two distinctively different things, although somewhat connected.

1:04.3

Tribal is a theme, much like Onslaught, or Lorain, or a sub-theme of Inistrade.

1:10.6

Those are tribal themes.

1:12.4

Tribal meaning has to deal with creature types.

1:15.3

Mechanically deals with creature types.

1:17.3

So we tend to do a tribal component in almost every set.

1:21.0

Theros had minotaur's.

1:23.3

Kansitarkir has warriors.

1:25.3

It's something we always do.

1:26.4

From time to time, like in Inistrod, we ramp it up and make it a sub-theme, and then

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