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#596: Izzet
This podcast is part of my guild series where I walk through the history of the guild through all three visits to Ravnica. In this podcast, I talk all about the blue-r...
#595: Selesnya
This podcast is part of my guild series where I walk through the history of the guild through all three visits to Ravnica. In this podcast, I talk all about the green-...
#593: Mechanic Inspirations
In this podcast, I talk about the various ways we create Magic mechanics to answer the question "Where do mechanics come from?"
#594: Dimir
This is the first of ten guild podcasts. I'll be doing five now and five when Ravnica Allegiance comes out. In this one, I talk about how we first created Dimir and th...
#591: Guilds of Ravnica
In this podcast, I talk about the vision design of Guilds of Ravnica.
#592: CAPS
In this podcast, I talk about a group of people who do a lot of work on Magic, but not the part I normally talk about. This is the people to whom R&D hand off their work.
#590: Letting Go
As I had just dropped my daughter Rachel off at college, I talk about how a designer has to learn to let go of their work and pass it along to other people.
#589: Chicago
My family went to Chicago to drop off my oldest daughter Rachel at college, so I talk all about how the city of Chicago has intersected with Magic.
#587: Sets by Plane
In this podcast, I walk through each set and talk about what plane it takes place on.
#588: College
I was about to take my daughter off to college, so I dedicated a podcast to talking about what lessons college taught me that impact my life and how I design Magic.
#586: Flickering
This podcast is all about an unnamed but commonly used mechanic, one where you exile a permanent and then return it to the battlefield. R&D calls this ability "flicker...
#585: Magic Evolution, Part 6
This is another in my "Magic Evolution" series, where I go through the history of the game and talk about the design innovations each set brought to the table. In this...
#584: Alpha Playtesters
Inspired by a video about the people who playtested Magic before it came out, I go into greater detail about the various playtesters.
#583: Lessons Learned – Ixalan
This is another in my series "Lessons Learned," where I examine sets I led or co-led and talk about what I learned from doing the design. In this podcast, I talk about...
#582: Creature Types
This podcast talks about how Magic uses creature types and the role they play in design.
#581: Narrative Equity
This podcast is about a concept that I wrote about in an article earlier this year which talks about the importance of games allowing its players to tell stories about...
#580: Busy R&D
This podcast tries to give a sense of scope about how many things we work on at once in R&D.
#579: Designing Kaladesh
On a rare "Drive from Work," I talk with carpooler Scott Van Essen about what it was like to design Kaladesh together.
#578: Transformers TCG
My carpool guest Scott Van Essen and I talk about the design of the new Transformers Trading Card Game, which he and I both worked on.
#577: Squirrels
In this podcast, I examine the history of Squirrels in Magic.
#576: History of Magic
At my SDCC Magic panel, I gave a little presentation about the history of Magic. This podcast is a slightly longer version of that talk.
#575: SDCC 2018
Every year, I attend San Diego Comic-Con where I run a Magic panel among other responsibilities. Upon my return, I always record a podcast about it. This is that podcast.
#574: Color Talk - Green Speaks
I turn over my podcast to the color green, which explains in its own words what it believes. This is part five of a five-part series I'm calling "Color Talk."
#573: Color Talk - Red Speaks
I turn over my podcast to the color red, which explains in its own words what it believes. This is part four of a five-part series I'm calling "Color Talk."
#572: Bad Cards
I revisit two of my old articles ("When Cards Go Bad" and the follow-up "When Cards Go Bad Revisited") to talk about why R and D makes bad cards.
#571: Color Talk - Black Speaks
I turn over my podcast to the color black, which explains in its own words what it believes. This is part three of a five-part series I'm calling "Color Talk."
#570: Color Talk - Blue Speaks
I turn over my podcast to the color blue, which explains in its own words what it believes. This is part two of my five-part series "Color Talk."
#569: Color Talk - White Speaks
I turn over my podcast to the color white, which explains in its own words what it believes. This is part one of a five-part series I'm calling "Color Talk."
#568: Throwing Parties
My wife and I love throwing parties, so in this podcast, I talk about the numerous lessons we've learned over the years and how I've been able to apply those lessons t...
#567: Magic Evolution, Part 5
This is another in my series where I go through Magic sets and talk about what each one added to design technology. In this podcast, I talk about original Mirrodin block.