Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

It's been two years since Research and Development started the new Vision Design, Set Design, Play Design model. In this podcast, I take a look at it and judge how I think it's going.

After three trials and five design challenges, the GDS3 top three came to Wizards' offices for the final day of the competition. This podcasts talks all about the final day of GDS3.

In this podcast, I talk all about a longstanding meeting we have every week in Research and Development.

This podcast is part six of a six-part series on the design of each and every non-Contraption card in Unstable.

This podcast is part five of a six-part series on the design of each and every non-Contraption card in Unstable.

This podcast is part four of a six-part series on the design of each and every non-Contraption card in Unstable.

For the 25th Anniversary Grand Prix, I recorded a video with Richard Garfield and Peter Adkison. This podcast is all about the day I spent shooting that video. I also talk quite a bit about the early days of Magic.

This podcast is part three of a six-part series on the design of each and every non-Contraption card in Unstable.

This podcast is part two of a six-part series on the design of each and every non-Contraption card in Unstable.

This podcast is part one of a six-part series on the design of each and every non-Contraption card in Unstable.

This podcast talks about how we decide when to keyword (or ability word) a mechanic in design.

I'm often asked about how one can be more creative, so I decided to finally make a podcast about the topic.

This is the fourth in my "Magic Evolution" series where I go through every Magic set and talk about the design innovations of each one. On today's podcast, I talk about the Odyssey and Onslaught blocks.

I go through a Magic card and talk about what impact design has on each part of the card.

In this podcast, I talk about the history of the kicker mechanic from its start in Invasion all the way through to its use in Dominaria.

For this podcast, I walk through every design team I've led or co-led and talk about what the jumping-off point was for the design to show the many different paths we start with when making a set.

In this podcast, I talk about why it's important for each plane to have a distinct identity.

This is another in my "20 Lessons, 20 Podcasts" series based on my 2016 Games Developers Conference speech. Today is lesson nineteen: "Your audience is good at recognizing problems and bad at solving them."

The Great Designers Search 3 was plugging along behind the scenes when I recorded this, so I checked in to give you some info on how it was going.

In this podcast, I talk about my days doing stand-up comedy and the lessons I learned that applied to Magic design.

This is the third and final part of a three-part series on the vision design of Dominaria.

This is the second part of a three-part series on the vision design of Dominaria.

This is the first of a three-part series on the vision design of Dominaria.

Not every card is new. In this podcast, I talk about when and how we use reprints in design.

I was asked to make some "How to" videos for Magic (alongside Gaby Spartz). This podcast is all about the day I spent making Magic videos.