Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

An important skill is selling your ideas live in a meeting. In this podcast, I talk about how to deliver a good pitch.

I'm joined by carpooling guest Mark Purvis, Magic senior brand director, to talk about how we took a product that no one at Wizards was asking for us to make, Unstable, and got it all the way to print.

The very first Hasbro-centric convention, called HASCON, was held in August. I was there, and this podcast is all about it.

In this podcast, I explore Magic's early sets and talk about the design innovations each one brought.

This is part three of a three-part series about the design of Ixalan.

This is part two of a three-part series about the design of Ixalan.

This is part one of a three-part series about the design of Ixalan.

In this podcast, I look at the history of the scry mechanic, from its premier in Fifth Dawn all the way to it becoming an evergreen keyword action.

I am often asked what factors determine when we choose to keyword a mechanic. In this podcast, I talk all about this topic.

In this podcast, I talk about how Wizards interacts with our freelance artists.

In my "Making Magic" column, I occasionally write articles where I blend together Magic and non-Magic topics selected by the audience. In this podcast, I talk all about the articles I've written in this format.

In this podcast, I talk all about the design of Hour of Devastation.

In this podcast, I talk about how players can best give their input about Magic.

For this podcast, I talk about how you can keep things feeling different in a game that's constantly making new content.

For the first time ever, I have a guest who isn't in the car with me. Thanks to new technology, I now have the ability to have a guest phone in. Gavin Verhey of Magic R&D tests out this new technology with me.

This is the fifteenth podcast in my 20-podcast series "20 Years, 20 Lessons." In this podcast, I talk about the importance of designing a component for the audience it's intended for.

I attended another SDCC and had another Blogatog Live Magic panel where I talked for the first time about Unstable. In this podcast, I talk all about what happened, including a few tidbits about Unstable from the panel that didn't make it out to social media.

In this podcast, I talk about the history of the Pit—the area where R&D works.

I'm often asked questions about how best to start a design. In this podcast, I go into detail about how to do just that.

In this podcast, I talk about the history of poison counters in the game.

In this podcast, I talk about the many different multicolor blocks we've made and how we went about making them.

For the first time, I review a book. Okay, it's a book about the history of Magic.

We have to make a lot of Magic sets, and while we always make new things, a lot of our job is taking the staple things we do all the time and finding small ways to make them feel different. In today's podcast, I talk about how we do that.

In this podcast, I look back at some of the different formats from the early days of Magic including things likes Grand Melee and Emperor.

In this podcast, I talk about one of the most important tools for a Magic designer.