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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #233 - Blue-Red

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

🗓️ 5 June 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about the color pair Blue Red

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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.

0:05.0

Okay, so today is another nice series of the color pairs. So we're up to blue-red.

0:13.0

So we're in the enemy color section of the color pairs. So these are now colors in which they have an internal conflict. So I'm going to talk

0:22.0

about the two colors, what their internal conflict is, and where they overlap, what they, what

0:25.7

happens when you put them together. Okay, so blue, blue seeks perfection through knowledge. Blue

0:33.8

believes in tabula rasa, that every single thing is born a clean slate and it can become whatever it wants to become.

0:40.5

That the only thing in its way is it needs knowledge to understand how to do it.

0:45.0

You know, it needs to gain the experience, it needs to gain the tools, it needs to gain the, just the training.

0:54.1

You know, Blue believes that like with the proper, you know, with the proper

0:56.9

training and tools and just understanding that Blue can become whatever it wants. And it is

1:03.3

seeking perfection, which it says is, I want to make myself the best that I can be. I want to

1:08.5

figure out how to use my intellect and reach the pinnacle

1:14.2

of what I'm capable of. Now, Red, in contrast, is all about seeking freedom through action.

1:24.0

Red says, I have the strong, my body tells me what it wants.

1:29.8

I have these emotions that speak that are primal that tell me what I need to do.

1:35.0

And my goal is to live true to my own heart, to I have this passion and this beliefs,

1:40.5

and I need to live through my passion and my beliefs.

1:43.3

And what I want is I want to exist in a world where that can happen, where I'm free to do

1:49.3

what I'm able to do, that I can have a passion, have an idea, and do what I need to do.

1:54.7

And Red is all about seizing the moment, of following your heart, that if you feel something,

2:01.9

you act on it.

2:03.9

If you are happy, be happy.

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