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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #200 - Black-Red

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Mark shares his third podcast in his series on two color-pairs, talking about the interactions between black and red.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm part of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

0:05.8

Okay, today is part three in an ongoing mega series on the color pairs. So I've done white, blue,

0:13.4

I've done blue black, and today it's black red turn. So in these podcasts, what I do is I want

0:20.0

to talk about what the colors are, how they

0:22.1

relate to each other, how they're different from each other, and sort of when you mix them

0:25.9

together, what do you get? So let's talk black and red. Okay, so black. Black wants power

0:33.0

through opportunity. What that means real quickly is, black wants to be able to do...

0:38.6

Black wants absolute power.

0:40.8

Black wants the ability to control everything,

0:43.1

and the way that black does that

0:45.7

is it is willing to do whatever it takes.

0:48.9

Black believes that the other colors have boundaries,

0:52.0

that they...

0:52.4

Self-created boundaries.

0:55.7

That other colors just won't do things because they decide it's not okay to do them. But black says that's weakness, that the key

1:02.2

to getting what you want is being willing to take whatever opportunities you need. There's

1:07.1

nothing off limits for black. Black is willing to do literally anything.

1:11.6

Red, on the other hand, Red seeks freedom through action.

1:17.6

Red follows its heart. Red wants to do what it wants to do. Red has impulses it needs to follow.

1:24.6

And so what red ultimately wants is the ability to do what it wants, to

1:28.3

have total freedom, to not be restricted in any way. And the way that Red achieves its

1:33.3

actions, or achieves its goal, it's through action. It just does things. That it, you know,

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