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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #187 - Mailbag with Matt 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

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Mark does another mailbag column with his special carpool guest, Matt Cavotta.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, we're pulling away from Matt's house. You know what that means? Two things. One, it's

0:05.5

time for drive to work. And second, Matt Kamaada's here. So Matt moved a little farther away.

0:13.2

He used to live like three blocks from me, and now he lives in the same town, but a little farther

0:17.5

away. But Matt needed a ride to work, and a lot of people have been saying, where's Matt?

0:21.9

So we get Matt for another podcast.

0:24.1

So I thought we would use this podcast to do a follow-up and do the second mailbag with Matt.

0:30.1

Sweet.

0:30.8

So I asked you guys for questions, and Matt in his hands has a list of questions, which he will get to pick which one he wants to ask.

0:38.1

And then here I will answer appropriately.

0:41.3

I'm going to lob you a softball.

0:43.7

Okay.

0:44.3

That's good.

0:44.6

To give me an opportunity to read the rest of the questions.

0:47.8

Okay.

0:48.3

Okay.

0:48.7

This is the first question on the list.

0:51.1

Okay.

0:51.7

From Lars Hoglow.

0:59.1

That's a pretty sweet list. Okay. From Lars Hoglow. That's a pretty sweet name. What's the biggest challenge you have when designing an unset? Okay. The biggest challenge you're designing an onset.

1:05.7

So there's one cardinal rule of an onset. And the cardinal rule is we can't make cards that we're allowed to make in Blackborder.

1:13.6

And the idea being that if we can make them in Blackborder, save them for Blackborder.

1:18.6

The tricky part is what exactly we can do in Blackborder versus Silver Border is a very, very fuzzy line.

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