
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Join Magic: The Gathering Head Designer Mark Rosewater as he shares stories, insights, and more while driving to work. Listen and learn more about how Magic is made!
Latest episodes

Dec 20, 2019 • 47min
#700: Plane Diversity
In this podcast, I talk about a popular topic from my blog about why Magic worlds aren't all as diverse as Dominaria.

Dec 20, 2019 • 39min
#699: Maria & Meghan
This is my first podcast of a new series where I talk about various members of the Magic community that produce content. I'm going to start by talking about Maria and Meghan of the "Good Luck, High Five" podcast.

Dec 13, 2019 • 47min
#698: Reusing Things
Part of Magic design is reusing things you've used before. This podcast talks all about when and how we reuse things in design.

Dec 13, 2019 • 40min
#697: Planeswalker Evolutions
In this podcast, I talk about the many different ways we've evolved the planeswalker card type since its introduction.

Dec 6, 2019 • 52min
#696: When to Change
This podcast talks about when you have to change what you're doing in a design. I give numerous examples of designs where we ended up making big changes.

Dec 6, 2019 • 36min
#695: Core of Planes
In this podcast, I examine all of our major planes and talk about the most important part of the plane from a design and flavor perspective.

Nov 27, 2019 • 46min
#694: Trivia – Top 50 Words
What are the 50 words that show up in the most Magic card titles? In this podcast, I go through that list and talk a bit about how we name cards.

Nov 27, 2019 • 42min
#693: Food Cluster
I'm trying something new, what I'm calling a cluster podcast, where I pick a topic and talk about a whole bunch of little topics in that category. For my first cluster podcast, I have chosen to talk about food.

Nov 22, 2019 • 48min
#692: Throne of Eldraine Cards, Part 4
This is part four of a four-part series on card-by-card design stories from Throne of Eldraine.

Nov 22, 2019 • 55min
#691: Throne of Eldraine Cards, Part 3
This is part three of a four-part series on card-by-card design stories from Throne of Eldraine.