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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #219 - Green-White

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about the Green-White color pairing.

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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.

0:05.7

Okay, so today is another in my mega series about the two color pairs. So let's see, I've done

0:11.9

white-blue, I've done blue black, I've done black-red, I've done red, I've done red-green.

0:16.1

That means it's time for green-white, the final of the ally color pairs. And then I'll be getting on to the enemy pairs in future podcasts.

0:23.8

Okay, so let's start by talking about what does green and white want.

0:27.7

So green.

0:28.8

Okay, so green is the one color that believes that things are the way they're supposed to be.

0:35.2

That nature is this thing of beauty, and that

0:38.0

the key to life is not changing anything, it's not trying to turn into something else, it's just

0:44.2

acknowledging and accepting it for what it is. That's why green, green wants acceptance. That's what

0:50.2

green ultimately. He goes, just accept the world the way it is. And the way it does that, I say, is through harmony.

0:57.0

And what that means is that you have to sort of be able to stop and realize what you have.

1:03.3

That what Green feels is that nobody takes, or not enough people take into account what they have.

1:09.2

That they're always searching for something else,

1:10.9

not realizing that what they already have is plenty. Meanwhile, we have White. White is seeking

1:18.6

out peace. White believes that everybody can be happy, that everybody can have what they need,

1:24.1

that we have the resources, that everybody can be, can be, have their needs met.

1:29.5

But in order to do that, it requires us taking steps to make sure that we all get what,

1:34.7

you know, that everybody's able to get what they need.

1:38.2

And in order to do that, White is very big on structure.

1:42.1

White believes that people inherently will do things that are counter to their own well-being,

1:48.0

but if you sort of set up rules, whether the rules be civil rules like laws or more spiritual

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