Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

This podcast talks about how we decide when to keyword (or ability word) a mechanic in design.

I'm often asked about how one can be more creative, so I decided to finally make a podcast about the topic.

This is the fourth in my "Magic Evolution" series where I go through every Magic set and talk about the design innovations of each one. On today's podcast, I talk about the Odyssey and Onslaught blocks.

I go through a Magic card and talk about what impact design has on each part of the card.

In this podcast, I talk about the history of the kicker mechanic from its start in Invasion all the way through to its use in Dominaria.

For this podcast, I walk through every design team I've led or co-led and talk about what the jumping-off point was for the design to show the many different paths we start with when making a set.

In this podcast, I talk about why it's important for each plane to have a distinct identity.

This is another in my "20 Lessons, 20 Podcasts" series based on my 2016 Games Developers Conference speech. Today is lesson nineteen: "Your audience is good at recognizing problems and bad at solving them."

The Great Designers Search 3 was plugging along behind the scenes when I recorded this, so I checked in to give you some info on how it was going.

In this podcast, I talk about my days doing stand-up comedy and the lessons I learned that applied to Magic design.