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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #49 - Scars of Mirrodin - Part 2

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

🗓️ 30 August 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Mark dives into Scars of Mirrodin with his second discussion about the set.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, I'm pulling out of my driveway.

0:02.9

We all know what that means.

0:04.7

It's time for another drive to work.

0:07.4

Okay, so last week, I started talking about the design of Scars of Mirrodin.

0:12.9

And this week, I thought I would continue that talk since I did not finish.

0:18.6

Okay, before I jump in, I made a mistake last week that I wanted to correct this week.

0:22.5

I was talking about how, in trying to get percentages for the sets, we wanted to start the

0:28.2

first set, having the Frexins be as lower percentages as possible, yet still fill their presence.

0:33.7

And I said last week off the top of my head that it was 10%.

0:36.4

But I was wrong.

0:37.6

It was 20%. So what we had of my head that it was 10%. But I was wrong. It was 20%.

0:38.6

So what we had done was the first set was 80% Mirrodin, 20% Ferrexian.

0:44.1

The middle set was 50-50, and the last set was 90% Ferrexian with 10% Miriden.

0:50.0

Now, by the way, if you do the numbers, you do the math, because the first set was a large set, and the other two sets were small sets, those numbers made the mirrored in the friction sides basically have the same amount of cards in the block.

1:03.9

Which, by the way, was interesting, because the whole schick was you didn't know whether it was New Phrexia or Mirred and Pure, But there were people that did the numbers and figured out that, you know, if the phrexians won,

1:16.2

that they'd have enough numbers to balance it out, which was completely true.

1:20.2

So it's funny that there's a lot of little clues if you understand our structure to figure out where we were going.

1:26.4

And there were plenty of people

1:27.6

that did figure it out. Okay, let me talk a little bit about that 20%. I mentioned watermarks

1:34.8

last week, and I wanted to talk a little more about how we use the watermarks, because it was

1:40.0

interesting. Because we were trying to demonstrate the idea that there was a phrexian presence.

1:45.4

And so I'd wanted, you know, 80-20 in the first set, and then I wanted 50-50 in the second

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