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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #344 - Urza's Saga Part 4

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about the design of Urza's Saga in part four of a four-part series.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on the driveway.

0:02.4

We all know what that means.

0:03.5

It's time for another drive to work.

0:05.9

Okay, so this is my fourth, and I'm believing my final podcast on Erza's saga.

0:11.7

So last I left, we were in the S's.

0:14.1

I had last talked about Sarah Sankham.

0:16.2

So it's time to talk about Shiven Gorge, another land, another part of the cycle.

0:20.6

So once again, Sarah Sankton, Telerian Academy, Ferexian Tower, Shivengorge, and Gaya's Cradle

0:29.3

were all part of a cycle.

0:31.1

Not the most clean cycle, and people always would confuse where the black and red one

0:34.8

were.

0:35.1

But this is the red one.

0:36.5

This is the red part of the cycle. Like I said, the black and red one were. But this is the red one. This is the red part of the cycle.

0:38.9

Like I said, the black and red were a little looser than the green, white, and blue ones.

0:43.3

So Schivengen Gorge is the land. You can tap to add a colors mana, or for two are in tap, you can deal one damage to each opponent.

0:51.2

This is probably the weakest of the five. I still think this one saw play too, but it definitely

0:57.5

was of the five the weakest. The black and red in general were weaker than the ones that produced

1:04.4

lots of men. That's a surprise, surprise. And this one, I don't know, my term history well enough to

1:10.5

know whether this saw a tournament play.

1:12.5

I believe it saw a little bit, but I'm not 100% on that.

1:16.4

Well, I'm good on history.

1:17.6

I don't know all my pro tour tournament level history at times.

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