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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #298 - Star Wars Trading Card Game

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

🗓️ 22 January 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about working with Richard Garfield ont he Star Wars TCG.

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:02.6

We all know what that means.

0:04.0

It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.6

Okay, so today I'm going to talk about the design of something other than magic.

0:12.8

I actually worked at Wizards for a long time, and while in the recent past, I mostly just worked on magic.

0:20.2

Ever since I became the head designer 2003, the vast vast majority of my time,

0:25.0

majority of my time has been on magic.

0:26.8

But before that, I actually worked on a bunch of different games.

0:30.9

And so people have been asking me to talk about what design other than magic that I did.

0:34.9

So we're going to try that today, see how it goes.

0:37.1

Okay, so the game I decided to talk about

0:39.0

was the Star Wars Trading Card game.

0:42.2

I'm going to talk about sort of my role on it

0:44.0

and about the game

0:45.1

and talk about sort of designing it

0:47.3

and just working on a different game.

0:50.1

A lot of people have expressed interest

0:51.3

in sort of hearing about some design stories

0:53.5

that are a little different. So here's a whole new game that a lot of you probably never played.

0:59.1

Okay, let me set the scene. So I think it was back in, well, it was before the second movie came

1:06.6

out. So Attack of the Clones came on in 2002, and so that was our first set, was tied into that.

1:13.6

So probably we started working, my guess is 2000s probably, knowing our timetables.

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