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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #277 - Fate Reforged, Part 4

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

🗓️ 6 November 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Mark continues with part 4 of his five-part series on the design of Fate Reforged.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.9

Okay, so today we continue on with Fate Reforged. So I've been talking all about Fate Reforged.

0:12.2

Last I left, let's see, I got up to F. So I'm still an F. So we're going to start to

0:17.9

we're going to start talking today about Farrell Khrushok.

0:22.3

So 4G-5-4 Beast, that's it.

0:26.3

One of the things that's fun, by the way, is we need to make vanilla creatures.

0:31.1

You know, one of the things that we...

0:33.0

I mean, it's something that we realized during New World Order.

0:36.8

It's always sort of been true, is that you don't want every single card in play to make...

0:41.0

Okay, what does that do?

0:43.3

Sometimes you just want some cards that nice to do simple things.

0:45.4

Vanilla cards are nice.

0:46.4

They give you a little breather.

0:47.6

They do what they do.

0:48.4

They can be very functional.

0:49.7

And the trick for us is to figure out how to make vanilla things that really make sense.

1:02.2

So we're in a world where we have a clan that's all about sort of power and being bigger.

1:05.4

And like, okay, just making some bigger creatures will help.

1:08.0

And just we wanted to have some beasts. Like one of the things that, um, one of the flavors that the

1:11.3

creative team was really interested in is the idea that once upon a time, there were all these

1:16.0

large creatures around, and that the dragons, when you let them exist, they eat a lot of

1:21.5

those creatures. When you get to dragons of Tarquir, those big things aren't around anymore. The

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