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#293 Interview with Mark Rosewater

The Game Design Round Table

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The Resilience of Magic in Tabletop

The combinatorics of magic are like mind blowing for example the story I always tell is when magic online first came out they wanted to do an ad saying how many potential decks there were so they came to us because we had all the mathematicians it's a Google isn't it. We have 25,000 unique cards and we keep making more on some level we'll just do the best we can and if things break we ban them. The system is a little beyond our ability to adequately you know design them but kind of let the chaos ensue and let the players take over.

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