Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Exploring the design story of the murder mystery set, Murders at Karlov Manor, the evolution of the morph mechanic in Magic: The Gathering card design, incorporating technology aesthetics in game design, crafting murder mystery theme cards for gameplay, and developing a city setting with a law enforcement theme.

In this podcast, I talk about many of the products we've introduced to help teach people how to play and walk through how our philosophy about it has changed over time.

In this podcast, I define the R&D expression "strictly better," discuss its history, and talk about why it's a thing we have to care about.

In this podcasts, I talk with Rules Manager Jess Dunks about how we go about making mechanics work that do things we've never done before.

I talk a lot about all the changes cards go through early in design. In this podcast, I interview Play Designer Ben Weitz to talk about the types of changes the Play Design team makes to cards late in the process.

In this podcast, I go through the process from start to finish of designing a Universes Beyond set.

Most of the time, we create the card design before we commission the art, but not always. In this podcast, I walk through when art comes before design and when we have to design to the art.

In this podcast, I talk all about Magic's fourth expansion.

This podcast is dedicated to mana cost. I talk about its history as well as the design space it offers designers.

Sometimes it can take a while to get a particular idea to print. This podcast shares some stories of things that took a while to get out to the public.