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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #295 - Chicken Rabbit Donkey

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

🗓️ 8 January 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about the three times he had to dress up as an animal for work.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:02.9

We all know what that means.

0:04.4

It's time for another drive to work.

0:07.1

Okay.

0:08.3

So today's podcast, I've dubbed Chicken Rabbit Donkey.

0:14.6

And the reason is I'm going to tell you three stories today that happened to be the three times I dress up like an animal for work.

0:23.7

Two of these involve unsets.

0:25.8

One involves not an unset, a story that I don't think I've ever told publicly.

0:30.6

Okay, let's start with chicken.

0:34.3

Okay, so back in, what was it, 90, the 90s, the late 90s, I made a set called Unglued.

0:44.5

So the idea was we wanted to do some promotion for Unglued, and so we had a meeting in which we had a brainstorming session to go,

0:52.0

what cool things could we do to promote Unglued?

0:55.1

And so basically people are spitballing, throwing things out,

0:58.7

you know, we're writing things down.

1:00.8

And at one point, you know, we're brainstorming.

1:04.0

The set, by the way, had a chicken theme for those that don't know unglued well.

1:07.9

There was a cycle of chickens, one in each color,

1:10.3

and then there was

1:11.0

including a chicken lord. So the idea is you could build this chicken deck, although

1:16.0

it was all spread through colors. It wasn't the easiest deck to build. But anyway,

1:20.5

I had a chicken theme, and the expansion symbol was that egg. In any way, we had played up the chicken theme.

1:28.4

And not only was there, by the way, not only was there a cycle of chickens, there also

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