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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #254 - Khans of Tarkir, Part 1

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

🗓️ 21 August 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Mark begins a seven-part series on the design of Khans of Tarkir.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of the parking lot.

0:02.1

We all know what that means.

0:03.5

It's time for another drive to work.

0:05.8

It also means I dropped my daughter off at camp today.

0:08.1

Anyway, but we're going to have a full podcast.

0:10.7

So today is the start of another design podcast.

0:15.0

I'm going to talk all about the design of Khans of Tarqir.

0:19.0

So the way I've been doing it now is I've been doing my design things

0:22.7

in order, not in order, but as a block. So what will happen is today and the next bunch of

0:28.4

ones I'll be doing cons of Tarkir. Then I'll be doing some other stuff and the next time I do a design

0:33.1

podcast, it'll be on Faitreforge and the one after that will be on Dragon's Starkear.

0:38.2

So it's time to talk to Arcure Block.

0:40.7

So the reason I waited was I wanted to get the whole block out there before I started telling

0:44.7

you the story, because one of the things that happens in my column is I have to start talking

0:49.1

about design before everything is known and becomes problematic because a lot of what we're doing is setting things up.

0:56.3

And so when I'm writing about the design of kinds of Tarquir,

0:59.7

I can't talk about things that were going to affect like Dragons and Tarquire.

1:03.4

But there were a lot of decisions that were integral.

1:05.9

And so in my design articles, I kind of was a bit restrained.

1:09.4

So for the podcast, I wanted to know, I wanted

1:12.4

to talk about it all. And to do that, I had to let it's finish. So I let the Tarkir block come out.

1:17.3

And now it's time and all his glory to talk about the Tarkir block and talk about all the

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