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#978: Unfinity Design, Part 4

This is part four of a four-part series on the design of Unfinity.

#977: UNF Flavor Text with Graham & Kathleen

I sit down with Graham Stark and Kathleen De Vere to talk about writing names and flavor text for Unfinity.

#976: Unfinity Design, Part 3

This is part three of a four-part series on the design of Unfinity.

#975: UNF Names & Flavor Text with Ari Zirulnik

I sit down with Ari Zirulnik to talk about overseeing the names and flavor text creation in Unfinity.

#974: Unfinity Design, Part 2

This podcast is part two of a four-part series on the design of Unfinity.

#973: UNF Card Concepting with Annie Sardelis

I sit down with Annie Sardelis to talk about what card concepting is and how she did the card concepting for various cards in Unfinity.

#972: Unfinity Design, Part 1

This podcast is part one of a multi-part series on the design of Unfinity.

#971: UNF with Chris Mooney

Chris Mooney was my strong second on Unfinity from the first day of exploratory design to the last day of set design. We sit down to talk about the stories of several ...

#970: Joel Mick

Only one person has been an Alpha playtester, Head Designer and Brand Manager for Magic Joel Mick. I sit down with Joel in this podcast to talk about his time with the...

#969: Feature Matches

This podcast is about the history of the feature matches and my involvement with them.

#968: DMU Set Design with Erik Lauer & Ian Duke

In this podcast, I sit down with Erik Lauer and Ian Duke, the co-lead set designers of Dominaria United, to talk about the expansion's set design.

#967: Rise & Fall of Blocks, Part 2

This is part two of a two-part series talking about the history of blocks.

#966: Rise & Fall of Blocks, Part 1

This is part one of a two-part series talking about the history of blocks.

#965: DMU Vision Design with Ethan Fleischer

In this podcast, I sit down with Ethan Fleischer, the lead vision designer of Dominaria United, to talk about the set's vision design.

#964: Concurrency

You all learn about new Magic sets one at a time, but that's not how they're made. This podcast will illustrate what it's like to make many products all at once.

#963: Build-Arounds

In this podcast, I talk about designing cards that are meant to inspire players to build decks around them.

#962: My Wizards Origin Story

I've briefly told listeners how I came to work for Wizards, but this podcast goes a bit more in depth into how it happened.

#961: Barry Reich

In this podcast, I interview Barry Reich, Magic's very first playtester.

#960: Enchantment Types

In this podcast, I go through all the enchantment subtypes of Magic.

#959: Playtest Cards

In this podcast, I go through the history of playtest cards from Richard's first playtest through modern day.

#958: Snow

In this podcast, I talk about the history of the snow supertype.

#957: Scarecrows

In this podcast, I talk about the history and design of all the Scarecrows in Magic.

#956: Use Case

In this podcast, I talk about a tool R&D uses called a use case.

#955: San Diego Comic-Con 2022

In this podcast, I talk about my latest trip to San Diego Comic-Con, including discussing the many things I talked about in my Magic panel.

#954: Broadwaycon 2022

My eldest daughter Rachel and I again went to New York City to attend a convention about Broadway, so I again made a podcast about it.

#953: Mechanical Depth

When we make a new mechanic, how do we figure out how many cards can be made with the new mechanic? This concept is called mechanical depth, and in this podcast, I exp...

#952: Lessons Learned – Zendikar Rising

This is another podcast in my "Lessons Learned" series where I look back at sets I led (or co-led) to talk about the design lessons I learned. Today's podcast is on Ze...

#951: Booster Fun with Tom & Sarah

I sit down with Tom Jenkot and Sarah Wassell to talk about the making of Booster Fun variants (all the cool alternate-art cards and special card frames that we do in a...

#950: Vehicles

In this podcast, I talk about the history of the Vehicle subtype.

#949: Double Masters 2022 with Bryan

I sit down with Designer Bryan Hawley to talk about the design of Double Masters 2022.