Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

This is a podcast version of my article where I talk about the challenges of designing Magic when it's a different game to different players.

Exploring the collaborative efforts of the Council of Colors in Magic: The Gathering design, discussing mechanics like blood tokens and maintaining color identity. Delving into design check-ins, color interactions, and enhancing white's token creation capabilities in Commander. Examining the evolution of color philosophies in card design and introducing new abilities for blue creatures. Addressing challenges in evolving color roles, including introducing card draw to white.

I walk through the history of the God creature type and share stories about how we designed the different incarnations of them.

There's no one in R&D that's a bigger fan of Kamigawa than Daniel Holt. He worked on more Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty teams than any other person at Wizards, so I sat down with him to talk about how we made sure Kamigawa was well represented in the set.

This is another in my "R&D Vocabulary" series where I explain various lingo R&D uses.

I sit down with Designer Corey Bowen to talk about the design of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Commander decks and Set Booster cards.

I sit down with Designer Dave Humpherys to discuss the set design of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty.

I tell the story of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty's exploratory design and vision design.

In this podcast, I take a look at all the named mechanics from the Champions of Kamigawa block.

I sit down with Designer Melissa DeTora to talk about the new casual play design group she's leading.