Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

This episode is part seven of an eight-part series where I go through the entire history of Magic design to talk about design evolution over the years.

In this podcast, I sit down with Carmen Klomparens, lead designer of the Magic: The Gathering Foundations  Starter Collection , to talk about the design of the product.

This episode is part six of an eight-part series where I go through the entire history of Magic design to talk about design evolution over the years.

In this podcast, I sit down with Foundations 's Lead Set Designer Bryan Hawley to talk about the design of the set's product suite.

This episode is part five of an eight-part series where I go through the entire history of Magic design to talk about design evolution over the years.

In this podcast, I go through all the mechanics that interact with the graveyard in some way.

This episode is part four of an eight-part series where I go through the entire history of Magic design to talk about design evolution over the years.

When we design new Magic cards and mechanics, we have to be conscious of how those cards will play with the cards and mechanics that already exist. In this podcast, I talk about what we do to make sure they play well together.

This episode is part three of an eight-part series where I go through the entire history of Magic design to talk about design evolution over the years.

Once a week, the Magic designers get together to talk through technical design issues. That meeting is called "Cardcrafting," and I talk about it in this podcast.

This episode is part two of an eight-part series where I go through the entire history of Magic design to talk about design evolution over the years.

In this episode, I take all the sets I talked about in my "State of Design 2024" article ( The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™ through Modern Horizons 3 ) and walk through every new mechanic with my personal thoughts on them and what we've learned about them.

This episode is part one of an eight-part series where I go through the entire history of Magic design to talk about design evolution over the years.

In this episode, I sit down with Emily Teng, the Duskmourn: House of Horror worldbuilding lead, to talk about the creation of this brand-new plane.

In this podcast, I talk about what divides normal Eternal-legal Magic mechanics from silver-bordered and acorn mechanics.

In this podcast, I sit down with Jules Robins, lead set designer of Duskmourn: House of Horror , to talk about the design of the set.

This is another episode in my "Lessons Learned" series where I look back at sets I led or co-led and walk through the many lessons I learned from doing the design. In this podcast, I talk about what I learned designing March of the Machine .

In this podcast, I sit down with Ovidio Cartagena, the art director for Duskmourn: House of Horror , to talk about the visual look of the set.

In this podcast, I sit down with Annie Sardelis, the lead vision designer of Duskmourn: House of Horror , to talk about the early design of the set. Annie also led the design of the set's Commander decks, so we talk about those as well.

In this podcasts, I talk about the history of various Magic card borders and frames.

We banned a card this week that stirred up a lot of talk. I then wrote a blog entry on it that stirred up additional talk. This podcast is me explaining the issue with the extra context that having 30 minutes to talk provides.

In this podcast, I explore why the colors are allies with those next to them in the color pie and enemies with those across.

Each August, I write an article where I review the last year's worth of Magic design. This podcast looks into the history and philosophy behind these articles.

In this podcast, I sit down with Zack Stella, Bloomburrow 's art director, to talk about the visual look of the set.

Thus far, there have been seven stages of Magic design. In this podcast, I walk through each stage and explain the changes each brought to the game.