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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #57 - Champions of Kamigawa, Part 1

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

🗓️ 27 September 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about Champions of Kamigawa.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means it's time for another drive to work.

0:08.1

Okay, so today it's time to talk magic design. So today, it's another set design. I want to talk about

0:15.8

champions of Kamagawa. With Tharo should have come out not too long ago or should be coming out soon.

0:23.5

I'm never good predicting in the future when I've recorded these.

0:26.7

But anyway, Theros is coming out or has come out around now.

0:31.5

So I thought it might be fun to talk about the first block that was a top-down design.

0:35.9

One that didn't go quite as well as either

0:38.9

Instrad or Theros, but an important learning lesson, we learned a lot from it.

0:43.8

So I'm going to talk about sort of how I got put together and some of the lessons we learned,

0:47.5

and I'm just going to talk about Champions of Kamagawa Design.

0:51.6

Okay, I always like to talk by mentioning the design team.

0:54.1

So this is interesting. I looked this one up. So here like to talk by mentioning the design team. So this is interesting.

0:54.7

I looked this one up. So here's just listed on the design team. So the lead designer was Brian

0:59.7

Tinsman. I knew that one. Also on the team was Brandon Bozzy, Elaine Chase, Brady-Darmouth,

1:06.1

Mike Elliott, Bill Rose, and myself. But I know I wasn't on the design team.

1:11.3

So I think what happened was I designed the splice mechanic,

1:16.4

spliced onto our cane in the set,

1:18.5

which I will get to in a bit.

1:19.9

So I was giving credit for design,

1:22.4

even though I wasn't on the design team.

1:25.0

So it is possible if you of these people

1:27.1

weren't on the design team. I it is possible if you of these people weren't on the design team.

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