Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Join Magic: The Gathering Head Designer Mark Rosewater as he shares stories, insights, and more while driving to work. Listen and learn more about how Magic is made!

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#918: Stories from Japan

Episode Date: March 26, 2022

One of the cool perks of my job is that I've had a lot of opportunity to travel to other countries. The country I've visited the most is Japa...

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#916: Card Frames

Episode Date: March 19, 2022

In this podcast, I talk about using different card frames as a design tool and get into the history of card frames that changed for mechanica...

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#914: Initial Ideation

Episode Date: March 12, 2022

This podcast is about my latest Nuts & Bolts article on initial ideation. In it, I explain how one starts designing a Magic set around an...

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#912: Watermarks

Episode Date: March 5, 2022

In this podcast, I explain the history of watermarks, talk about the various ways we use them, and explain why we can't mechanically care abo...

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#910: The Big Picture

Episode Date: February 26, 2022

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....

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#908: Gods

Episode Date: February 19, 2022

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