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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #271 - Un-Rules Manager

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

🗓️ 16 October 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about being the rules manager for silver-bordered Magic.

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0:00.0

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

0:05.5

Okay. So today, I'm going to talk about a job that I don't talk about very often.

0:12.0

One of the mini hats I wear is as unrules manager. What does that mean? So, um, the, uh, I created a set called unglued and later a set called unhinged that have

0:28.4

a silver border.

0:29.8

And a silver border means these cards are not playable in, in normal tournaments.

0:35.2

Um, they are fun cards.

0:36.5

And because we, one of the guidelines of the unsets, if you will,

0:41.4

has always been to don't do things you can do in Blackboarder.

0:46.0

One of those things are cards that have cool, do cool things,

0:50.4

they don't quite work in the rules.

0:53.5

So what happens is whenever we, I come up with cards that I want to make, and I'm not

0:58.6

allowed to make it normal magic, if I had an opportunity to make them in a silver border, I

1:02.7

would.

1:03.5

So anyway, when unglued came out, we needed to make an FAQ.

1:09.5

Normally, the rules manager makes the FAQ,

1:12.4

but the set had all sorts of really crazy FAQ questions,

1:16.2

just because the set was really crazy, just doing very weird things.

1:19.9

And so the Rules Manager at the time, I don't remember who it was,

1:22.7

I guess it was Tom Wiley, but I don't remember who it was,

1:25.4

said, yeah, I'm not writing, I'm not writing that.

1:29.2

And I said, well, okay, I'll write the FAQ, because I wanted an FAQ, there were a lot of

1:34.1

questions people would have, you know, if I have the left half of the BFM and the right half,

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