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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #293 - Dragons of Tarkir, Part 5

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

🗓️ 1 January 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mark continues with part 5 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 don't know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

0:06.0

Okay, so I'm in the middle of talking all about Dragons of Tarkir.

0:11.0

So last we left, I'd gotten up to O. So today I'm going to talk about Ojetai's command.

0:18.0

So there's another one of the command cycles. So it's two W blue, two white blue. So four

0:23.0

mana, one of which is white, one blue. It's an instant. And you can choose to do two of the

0:28.4

following. You can return a creature of a converted manacost of two or less from the battlefield,

0:34.3

sorry, from the graveyard to the battlefield. You can gain four life.

0:38.3

You can counter-target spell, or you can draw a card.

0:42.3

So this one is a very functional card.

0:46.0

The fact that unless you counter a spell makes this particularly good in a control deck,

0:49.2

and white-blue is good at doing control.

0:52.0

And it just has a lot of flexibility.

0:54.1

Do you want to counter a spell and draw a card? You got to be, I have to say dismissed, but we just remember... doing control. And it just has a lot of flexibility.

0:55.7

Do you want to counter-spell and draw a card?

0:58.8

You've got to be, I have to say, dismissed, but we just remade the card.

1:00.5

I think kind of send.

1:03.3

You can counter-spell and gain life.

1:04.7

You can reanimate something.

1:06.7

You can gain life and draw a card.

1:07.5

There's lots of choices. And it was suited to go pretty well in a control-ish white blue deck.

1:12.4

Once again, the first two abilities are the white abilities, returning a small creature from a graveyard to the battlefield and gaining four life.

1:19.1

That's a white ability.

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