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1216 episodes transcribedThis episode looks back at the design of Weatherlight, the third set in the Mirage block.
This episode looks back at the design of Visions, the second set in the Mirage block.
One of the truisms of game design: make sure your players enjoy losing your game. How do we do that? This podcast walks listeners through six...
Every year, my eldest daughter, Rachel, and I go to a convention dedicated to Broadway called BroadwayCon. It's interesting going to a conven...
I do a lot of interviews. A question I often get is, "Why is Magic so good?" I have a lot of answers to that question, enough for a 30-minute...
In this podcast, I sit down with Yoni Skolnik, the lead set designer for Aetherdrift, to talk about the design after it was handed off for se...
I talk about the history of drawback mechanics, what they are, how we design them, and how they've changed over the years.
I recorded this podcast two years ago when I handed off the Aetherdrift vision design to the Set Design team. Hear my thoughts on Magic's lat...
In this podcast, I walk through the various reasons why we reprint cards at a different rarity.
In this podcast, I talk about the history of the protection mechanic, starting from Limited Edition (Alpha) to present day.
In this podcast, I walk through Magic's history to talk about how the use of creature types has changed over time.
This is another in my "Lessons Learned" podcasts where I talk about sets I led or co-led the design for. I walk through the various lessons I...
Almost every randomized booster product is designed to be drafted. To do that we have to build around what we call draft archetypes. In this...
In this podcast, I sit down with JC Tao, the lead designer of Innistrad Remastered, to talk about the making of the set.
In this podcast, I talk all about the design of Apocalypse, another set from the Invasion block.
In this podcast, I talk all about the design of Planeshift, a set from the Invasion block.
I gained a love of games from my father and a love of psychology from my mother. This podcast talks about how my interest in psychology has i...
Part of writing a weekly Magic column involves writing card preview articles for new sets. In this podcast, I talk all about what goes into w...
This is part two of my two-part series where I talk about the history of two-in-one cards.
This last fall, I wrote a two-part article about what I call "two-in-one cards," or "two-in-ones" for short. These are designs where more tha...
