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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #198 - Holiday Cards

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Games, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Mark Rosewater, Ccg, Magic The Gathering

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Mark explores the design of the special holiday cards.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

Okay. So today I am talking the holiday cards. So I'm going to explain what these things are, and we've made nine of them, and I'm going to walk through all nine of them and talk about how each one got created.

0:18.0

Okay, so let me start with what is the holiday card,

0:21.1

because a lot of people might not even know what I'm talking about.

0:23.1

So many years ago, in fact, by many years ago, I mean 2006.

0:27.7

Elaine Chase is the senior brand manager, brand director of Magic.

0:33.9

She's the person on the brand team in charge of Magic.

0:36.8

And so back in 2006, she came to R&D and said,

0:41.2

you know, a lot of other companies will produce holiday things

0:45.2

that they give away as little tokens of appreciation

0:48.8

to their employees and business partners.

0:51.5

And that she thought it would be fun to do that for magic,

0:53.6

that we can make a magic-themed

0:55.9

sort of a holiday card that we would give out.

0:58.9

And rather, our holiday card be a greeting card.

1:02.5

Our holiday card would be an actual magic card.

1:05.3

But there are a bunch of constraints she had.

1:07.8

And so she said, number one, she wanted to be silver-bordered, that she wanted to be clear

1:13.3

that this wasn't something, it was something fun that you could play with and have fun with, but it

1:17.7

wasn't intended for tournament play. Number two, that she wanted to have a holiday theme, but not

1:25.3

particularly more general holiday than a specific holiday.

1:29.4

I mean, obviously we skirt, you'll see, we skirt the line

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