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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #290 - Dragons of Tarkir, Part 3

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

🗓️ 25 December 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Mark continues with part 3 of his six-part series on the design of Dragons of Tarkir.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling my driveway. We'll tell you what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.8

Okay. So today I'm going to continue with my Tales on Dragons from Tarkir. So I've last couple podcasts, I've been talking about the design, and I got into talking about cards.

0:19.8

In fact, last podcast I got all the way to B, all the way to B.

0:25.7

I didn't even finish B, but I started B.

0:28.9

Oh, no, I finished B, sorry.

0:29.9

I finished B and now I'm up to C.

0:33.4

Whole podcast and I got all the way up to C.

0:35.4

Okay.

0:36.3

But there's a lot of cool cards starting with C.

0:38.3

So let's get going.

0:39.4

Okay, so we're going to start with Circle of Elders.

0:42.1

So that is a green card.

0:43.4

It costs two green green, so four man a total, two wishes green.

0:48.0

It's a two-four human shaman.

0:51.0

It has vigilance and it has formidable cap for three colors.

0:55.0

Okay, so remember everybody that, formidable, let's talk about formidable a little bit.

0:59.0

Firmitable is a mechanic where if you have eight or more powers of creatures,

1:04.0

you either gain an ability or when you come into play, you gain the enter the battlefield effect,

1:09.0

but you get some advantage for having

1:11.1

that many. So this card cares about it in play. What that means is, this card has an ability

1:19.1

that it gains if it has that. So it's something where, the nice thing about formidable

1:24.7

things that are impermanence is that you might not have a power creature when you play it, but eventually you can.

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