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!
1242 episodes transcribedIn this podcast, I talk about one of the most important tools for a Magic designer.
For the second year, I took my daughter to VidCon, the convention for YouTube stars. As an outsider looking in, I always get a lot of insight...
My daughter and I visited eight colleges in five days, which spawned this podcast.
Back in June, we had a week with more announcements packed into it than we had ever done before in that condensed amount of time. This podcas...
This podcast is dedicated to Magic trivia, focusing mostly on trivia from the early days of the game.
In this podcast, I talk about the biggest constant of Magic—change.
This is my first mechanical color pie podcast where I go in depth on one mechanical aspect. For my maiden voyage, I chose to talk about how t...
A few months ago, I wrote an article where I spelled out what colors did what in the color pie. In this podcast, I talk all about the making...
In this podcast, I talk about the role complexity plays in game design.
In this podcast, I talk about the mechanic flashback. I discuss how it got originally designed and the many different blocks that have used i...
This is second part of my two-part series on the design of Amonkhet.
I asked for feedback about my podcast, and one of the most common replies I got was that people would like me to occasionally mix in more rec...
One of the questions I get most often is "How can I become a game designer?" I answer that question in this podcast.
From time to time, I dedicate a show to talking about the many people who have worked on Magic. In this podcast, I'm talking again about R&am...
In this podcast, I talk about one of the design tools we use—counters. I go through the various kinds and talk about how counters help us exp...
Wizards has made many games other than Magic. So many, in fact, that I needed two podcasts to talk about them all.
Magic is just one of the games Wizards of the Coast has made. Today, I walk through the many, many others.
This podcast is the fourteenth in my 20-podcast series based on a GDC speech I gave in 2016 about 20 of the lessons I've learned designing Ma...
I talk about the use of different frames and walk through the many times we've used frames to aid the game mechanically.
On my blog, there was some discussion about the mechanical theme of "vanilla matters." (Vanilla creatures are creatures without rules text.)...
