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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #218 - Innistrad Cards, Part 3

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Mark continues telling the stories behind the cards of Innistrad in part 3.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.0

Okay, so the last two episodes, I've been, or two podcasts, I've been talking about Innesrod and going through cards of Innesrod.

0:13.0

Well, I got it to E, so I'm nowhere near done, so we're going to continue.

0:16.0

So when last we left, I was about to talk about the card. Evil Dwin, which is one of my favorites.

0:21.6

Not my absolute favorite.

0:23.3

Endless Wings of the Day is my absolute favorite, but one of my favorites from Innesrod.

0:27.8

So Evil Twin was interesting, and one of the things we did is we, I, Jenna Helen was the

0:34.5

creative representative on the team.

0:35.9

So we always have someone who, on the large sets, that's from the creative team to help make

0:39.9

sure that we understand the larger issues of what are going on and we're tying the story

0:43.8

and we're catching the flavor correctly.

0:45.7

So one of the things I normally have the creative rep do is come up with really flavorful

0:50.3

names, especially in the top-down set of Ginnish Drive.

0:52.6

So Jenna came up to all sorts of like really, gothic horrid names and brought them in.

0:57.9

And then we, in some of the meetings, we were designed to them.

1:00.8

So one meeting, we have Jenna's list, and I said, how about Evil Twin?

1:07.0

And we designed the following card from Evil Twin.

1:09.7

So Evil Twin is two blue-black for a zero-zero shape shifter.

1:15.4

It enters the battlefield as a copy of a creature,

1:19.7

but it also has the ability you black tap destroy target creature with the same name as this.

1:26.1

So the idea is the Evil Twin comes in, it copies something, and then it has the ability

1:31.0

to kill the thing that is the copy of, which is...

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