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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #182 - Legions, Part 2

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

🗓️ 12 December 2014

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Mark continues his 4-part series on the design of Legions with part 2.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of my driveway. We don't know what that means.

0:03.0

It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.0

Okay. Well, last time I started talking about the design of legions.

0:12.0

And I only got it to be, which means that I'm not done yet.

0:16.0

So today we will continue on talking all about the all-creature set.

0:24.4

Okay, so where did I leave off? Let's see.

0:27.1

I left off with... Oh, Collar of the Claw.

0:30.9

This was a very good car.

0:32.7

Okay, so Collar of a Claw was 2 in the green for a 2-2-two elf, had Flash, although it was written out because

0:40.5

flash did not exist yet as a keyword, and when he came into play, for each creature, for each

0:48.6

non-token creature that had gone to the graveyard of this turn, you got a 2-2-Bair token.

0:55.7

And so the idea of this was, we were trying to give Green some answers to mass removal.

1:04.0

So the idea is, I play a whole bunch of green creatures, because what Green does, plays lots

1:07.5

of creatures, your opponent somehow wipes the board. What do you as a green player do?

1:12.6

And so, we're like, so one of the things that's always fun is when you try to solve the problem

1:18.6

in the color that you are doing, there's a lot of tendency to want to solve the color by having

1:23.6

the color do something it doesn't normally do.

1:25.6

And like, oh, could it counter the mass removal spell?

1:30.7

It's like, nah, it's not what green does.

1:32.6

So what's like, what green does is green makes lots of creatures.

1:35.0

That's what green does.

1:35.7

Green overwhelms you with creatures.

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