Drive to Work #334 - Twenty Lessons: Aesthetics

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

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🗓️ 27 May 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Mark's second podcast in a series of 20 from GDC.

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0:00.0	I'm pulling on my driveway.
0:02.8	We all know what that means.
0:04.2	It's time for their drive to work.
0:06.8	Okay.
0:07.7	Today is another in my 20 lessons, 20 podcasts.
0:12.7	This is one based on the talk I gave for the GDC, the Games Developer Conference,
0:16.2	where I talked about the 20 big lessons I learned in my 20 years designing magic.
0:20.9	So I already did the first one, which was when you're fighting against human nature, you're
0:26.3	fighting a losing battle. So today's is aesthetics matter. So I will explain what aesthetics are
0:32.4	and why they matter. Okay, so let me start with the example I gave in my talk. So in the set, Aveson
0:40.5	restored, the card that I got the most complaints about, and by a decent magnitude, like I probably
0:46.8	got three times of many complaints about this one card than any other card in the whole set.
0:51.6	What was the card? Gristlebrand.
0:55.2	Okay, Gristlebrand.
0:56.3	Why did it get completely... Was it a weak card?
0:57.7	No, it's actually a very powerful card.
1:00.1	In some of the older formats, it's, you know, it's...
1:02.6	I mean, it's relevant in older formats, meaning it's pretty powerful.
1:06.4	Okay.
1:07.1	Is it a flavor thing?
1:08.8	No, no. Lillianna's one of the most popular characters we have,
1:12.8	and he's one of the four demons that she made the pact with. And, you know, and so he was relevant,
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