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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #313 - Limited Edition, Part 6

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Magic The Gathering, Games, Mark Rosewater, Ccg, Leisure, Mtg, Game Design

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Mark concludes his his six-part series on the design of Limited Edition (Alpha), Limited Edition (Beta), and Unlimited Edition.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm putting on a driveway.

0:02.4

We all know what that means.

0:04.3

It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.9

Okay.

0:07.9

So today, I hope to be the last day of Alpha Beta Unlimited.

0:14.4

I got up to O and I'm going to focus to try to finish today.

0:18.7

So when we left, we were up to Orkish artillery. So one red-red for a one-three,

0:23.7

summon orcs. You can tap it to deal two damage to any target and three to itself. So this was

0:31.6

one of the misprints in Alpha. This was printed not at one red-red red, so it normally costs

0:35.7

three men, two of which are red, but it only costs one and a red. So it was pretty good. It was a little bit cheaper,

0:42.0

a little less red mana. Also, Orkish Oroflame, which costs three in a red. It's an enchantment,

0:48.6

and it says when you attack all your creatures, get plus one plus O. So give all your attacking

0:52.7

creatures a power boost.

0:54.8

Also got misprinted at one in an hour.

0:57.2

So both Orkish Artillery and Orkish Oriflame both were printed at one and a red,

1:01.4

when in fact, they were respectively one red red red and three red.

1:05.8

So three mana and four mana.

1:08.2

But anyway, it's funny.

1:10.0

Orkish Oroflame, I actually believe that the correct power level, if it's playable,

1:15.1

would be one in the red.

1:16.6

So I joke sometimes that we need to make Alpha Oakhish Oriflame.

1:22.1

I think Alch-Orylame also, by the way, at one point got restricted or banned or something

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