Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

This podcast is another in my "Lessons Learned" series where I explore what I learned during the making of sets for which I led or co-led design.

When Unglued was first concepted, the idea behind it was that we could design cards for non-tournament play. What exactly does that mean, and what does it entail? In this podcast, I explore the parameters of non-tournament design.

I sit down with Designer and Rules Manager Jess Dunks to talk about the challenges of managing the rules and dealing with me as head designer.

I sit down with Designer Ethan Fleischer to talk about the design of Oath of the Gatewatch.

One of the cool perks of my job is that I've had a lot of opportunity to travel to other countries. The country I've visited the most is Japan. In this podcast, I share three stories from three different visits to the Land of the Rising Sun.

I sit down with Designer Aaron Forsythe to talk about the design of Lorwyn.

In this podcast, I talk about using different card frames as a design tool and get into the history of card frames that changed for mechanical reasons.

I sit down with Designer Matt Place to talk about the creation of New World Order, something he and I created many years ago to tackle a big problem the game was having.

This podcast is about my latest Nuts & Bolts article on initial ideation. In it, I explain how one starts designing a Magic set around an idea.

I sit down with Senior Copywriter Ari Zirulnik to talk about what exactly Magic copywriting is. He and I also lightly touch on writing the names and flavor text for Unfinity.