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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #266 - Returning to Worlds

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

🗓️ 2 October 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Scars of Mirrodin,-Return to Ravnica,-Battle for Zendikar. We've begun to revisit worlds we've already been to. What design issues are there when you start with a world you've visited before? Today's podcast talks all about this topic.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:02.0

We all know what that means.

0:03.0

It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.0

Okay.

0:07.0

So one of the things I did a while ago is I reached out on my social media,

0:11.0

and I said to people, what are topics you would like to hear me talk about?

0:15.0

And I wrote them all down, and so every once in a while, I go back and I take something off the list.

0:19.0

So today is a topic off the list of people requested.

0:22.9

So the topic was returning to worlds.

0:27.6

So what does that mean?

0:28.7

So four times in Magic's History, we have returned to a world we've already been to.

0:35.8

So the first time we did it, uh, is we were on

0:39.6

Dominaria for many, many years, but then the Rath cycle happened. And we actually left Dominaria.

0:44.8

Uh, and we went to Rath and we went to Mercadia. Um, but eventually we came back to Dominaria

0:50.6

invasion. Um, so we have returned to Dominaria. It's a little bit different because we

0:55.8

weren't gone that long. The next time we returned somewhere was in Scars of Myriden. We had been to

1:03.1

Mirdin. Now we were coming back to Mirdin, but oh, things weren't going so well. And we learned

1:08.5

all about the attack by the Phrexians on Mirrodin. Then we did

1:12.7

return to Ravnika, and we went back to Ravnika and visited Ravnika for a second time. And finally,

1:19.9

this fall, this year, we are returning to Zendikar and finding out what happened. Okay, so each of

1:27.3

these four sets, each of these four sets,

1:28.3

each of these four returns are a different animal.

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