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!
1312 episodes transcribedI went to Philly to attend MagicCon. This podcast tells of my journey.
So far, I've talked with all five color representatives. That means it's time to talk with a sixth, the colorless representative Ben Weitz....
One of the teams I work closest with is the Creative team. In this podcast, I talk about how the Vision Design and Worldbuilding teams work h...
In this podcast, I talk about all the different ways cards can impact the players mentally and how we have to account for it in design....
In this podcast, I talk about how this concept came about and how we design for it.
This is another in my series where I sit down with color representatives from the Council of Colors. In this podcast, I talk with Chris Moone...
In this podcast, I look at the history of die-rolling cards.
This is another in my series where I sit down with color representatives from the Council of Colors. In this podcast, I talk with Corey Bowen...
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...
This is another in my series where I sit down with representatives of the colors from the Council of Colors. In this podcast, I talk with Eth...
In this podcast, I talk about an important aspect of design, something we call logistics (all the physicalness of using a card).
I sit down with Set Lead Designer Adam Prosak to talk about the design of Phyrexia: All Will Be One.
In this podcast, I talk all about Phyrexia and the design of Phyrexia: All Will Be One.
This is the second in my series of interviews with color representatives from the Council of Colors. In this podcast, I interview Jules Robin...
To celebrate my 1,000th episode, I talk all about the making of Drive to Work.
In this podcast, I sit down with Megan Smith, the representative for green in the Council of Colors to talk all about green.
I've covered almost every aspect of designing a new set but haven't talked about how our budget impacts design. Today's podcast is all about...
In today's podcast, I talk about the seventeen noncreature artifact tokens from across Magic's history.
In this podcast, I look back at the history of artifact destruction.
In this podcast, I talk about how we design activations that require a color not found in the mana cost of the card.
