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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #363 - Packaging

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about the history of Magic packaging.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of the parking lot.

0:03.1

We all know what that means.

0:04.3

It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.6

And I drop my daughter off at camp yet again.

0:10.0

Okay.

0:10.6

So today, I'm going to talk about a very different part of the magic experience.

0:15.6

I'm going to talk about packaging.

0:18.9

So one of the things that's very interesting is when people,

0:22.7

when people think about wizards,

0:25.5

it's very easy to think about, like,

0:27.2

there's a lot of sections at Wizards,

0:28.6

a lot of different people working there.

0:30.7

And I know it's very easy to think of like R&D

0:32.5

and the people that make the game,

0:36.3

but there's a whole other group of people that a lot of times people forget about,

0:39.8

which is there's a lot more to the magic than just literally the cards themselves.

0:43.6

In fact, even the cards themselves have to be made.

0:46.2

There's a whole section of the company that, I mean, R&D designs the cards,

0:50.9

and we get the art for it, and we get the edited text and everything. We get all the

0:55.4

components for it, but someone has to make that card. We call them caps. And not only is

1:01.5

caps responsible for the physical making of the cards, they also have to make the packaging.

1:06.1

That's another big, important part. And I know I mostly talk about making the cards.

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