Magic: The Gathering Drive To Work Podcast

In my podcast on Igniting the Spark (the new Magic documentary), I talked about doing a podcast that covered something the documentary didn't. How did Magic grow from a one hundred million-dollar game to a billion-dollar game?

In this podcast, I talk about a key component of design: set structure.

This is another podcast in my ongoing quest to record a podcast about every expansion. This episode is all about Prophecy, the third set in the Mercadian Masques block.

A documentary about how Magic debuted at Gen Con. I had the pleasure of participating in it, and this podcast talks all about that.

This is another podcast in my ongoing quest to record a podcast about every expansion. This podcast is all about Nemesis, the second set in the Mercadian Masques block.

Every year, I write a "State of Design" column where I talk about how I feel the last year of Magic design went. This year's column starts with Bloomburrow and goes through Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™. With six sets to talk about, I ended up having a pretty lengthy article, so I made a supplementary podcast where I walk through every new mechanic to give my thoughts on how they went.

This is another podcast in my ongoing quest to record a podcast about every expansion. This podcast is all about Mercadian Masques.

Magic is made not by a single designer but by a large group of people. In this podcast, I talk about how that affects game design.

In this podcast, I talk all about my trip to this year's San Diego Comic-Con.

The very nature of a trading card game is that it's always evolving. In today's podcast, I talk about what that means for Magic design.

In this podcast, I see if I can talk for 30 minutes about the Magic card back. (Hint: I did it.)

In this podcast, I sit down with Andrew Brown, the set lead designer of Edge of Eternities, to talk about the making of the set.

In this podcast, I talk about an R&D expression, "The juice isn't worth the squeeze."

In this podcast, I sit down with Ethan Fleischer, the vision design lead for Edge of Eternities, to talk about the making of the set.

In this podcast, I walk through the history of how we've used colorless in design.

This podcast explores how each of the colors interacts with enchantments.

This podcast explores how each of the colors interacts with creatures.

In this podcast, I talk about how it's not enough for a mechanic to be good in a vacuum.

In this podcast, I talk about the use of repeat mechanics on singular card designs.

This podcast explores how each of the colors interacts with artifacts.