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#536: Lessons Learned – Amonkhet
This podcast is another in my "Lessons Learned" series where I talk about the lessons I learned on sets for which I led or co-led the design. In this podcast, I talk a...
#535: Constructive Criticism
A lot of my job is giving and receiving criticism. In this podcast, I talk about the tenets to giving criticism in a way that helps the person getting the criticism be...
#534: Designing Legendaries
In this podcast, I talk about how we design legendary cards.
#533: Editor-in-Chief
In this podcast, I talk about my time as editor-in-chief of Duelist, the Magic-themed magazine Wizards used to produce.
#532: Morph
In this podcast I walk through the history of the morph mechanic from its origin to its use in Khans of Tarkir block.
#531: Magic Evolution, Part 3
This is the third in my series "Magic Evolution," where I go through every set and talk about what design technology was created. In this podcast, I talk about Mercadi...
#530: What Is a Game
This is a fun podcast where I explain my definition of what a game is. I'm sure it's bound to prompt much discussion.
#529: 20 Lessons: Creativity
This is part eighteen of my series "20 Lessons, 20 Podcasts" based on my 2016 Game Developers Conference talk. In this podcast, I explain why restrictions breed creati...
#528: Dissension, Part 3
This is part three of three, where I share many card-by-card design stories from Dissension.
#527: Dissension, Part 2
This is part two of three, where I share many card-by-card design stories from Dissension.
#526: Dissension, Part 1
In this podcast, I go over the design test, the third trial for the Great Designer Search 3.
#525: Rookie Mistakes
Having just read 94 design tests for the GDS3, I spend a podcast talking about many of the common mistakes novice designers make.
#524: GDS3 Trial 3
I finally get around to the third and final set in original Ravnica block, Dissension. This is part one of three, where I share many card-by-card design stories from t...
#523: GDS3 Trial 2, Part 3
In this podcast, I go over the answers for the final 25 questions in the Trial 2 multiple-choice test for the Great Designer Search 3.
#522: GDS3 Trial 2, Part 2
In this podcast, I go over the answers for the second 25 questions in the Trial 2 multiple-choice test for the Great Designer Search 3.
#521: GDS3 Trial 2, Part 1
In this podcast, I go over the answers for the first 25 questions in the Trial 2 multiple-choice test for the Great Designer Search 3.
#520: GDS3, Trial 1
To make it into the Top 8 of the Great Designer Search 3, you needed to pass three trials. In this podcast, I talk about the first trial, the essay test.
#519: Editing
In this podcast, I talk all about the important work done by our editing team.
#518: ESPN2
For many years, Magic was broadcast on ESPN2. This podcast looks back at that time and talks about the experience from behind the scenes.
#517: Answering Questions
Part of my job is answering questions from all sorts of different sources. In this podcast, I talk about who I answer questions from and how I do it.
#516: New to Magic
This podcast was made for you to share with someone new to Magic. I walk through the basics and demonstrate the important things to do when introducing the game.
#515: Building New Worlds
This is a companion podcast to one I did about designing sets that revisit worlds we've been to before. In this podcast, I talk about designing for a new world.
#514: Unstable Pre-Prelease
I traveled to Victoria, Canada, to participate in LoadingReadyRun's inaccurately named but very fun Pre-Prerelease for Unstable. This podcast is all about my trip.
#513: Unstable Variants
Unstable did something different by having various versions of a card with the same name. This podcast talks about how they happened and the great lengths we went to i...
#512: Playtest Cards
In this podcast, I talk all about the history of playtest cards in R&D, including a discussion on the latest technology.
#511: 20 Lessons: Less Is More
This is part seventeen in my 20-part series "20 Lessons, 20 Podcasts" based on my 2016 Game Developers Conference speech. In this podcast, I talk about the lesson "You...
#510: Great Designer Search 3
In this podcast, I talk about the lengthy journey to make the third Great Designer Search happen.
#509: Magic Evolution, Part 2
This is part two of my "Magic Evolution" series where I walk through sets and explain what innovations they added to Magic design.
#508: Unstable Talk, Part 2
This is technically a "Drive from Work." I picked Mark up at his house to do the last podcast, so we figured we might as well do another podcast when I drove him home.
#507: Unstable Talk, Part 1
I have a special carpool guest, Magic Senior Brand Director Mark Purvis. He promised to come back when we could talk openly about Unstable. And so he did.