

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Mark Rosewater
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!
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Feb 23, 2018 • 32min
#514: Unstable Pre-Prelease
I traveled to Victoria, Canada, to participate in LoadingReadyRun's inaccurately named but very fun Pre-Prerelease for Unstable. This podcast is all about my trip.

Feb 23, 2018 • 36min
#513: Unstable Variants
Unstable did something different by having various versions of a card with the same name. This podcast talks about how they happened and the great lengths we went to in order to hide their existence.

Feb 16, 2018 • 38min
#512: Playtest Cards
In this podcast, I talk all about the history of playtest cards in R&D, including a discussion on the latest technology.

Feb 16, 2018 • 47min
#511: 20 Lessons: Less Is More
This is part seventeen in my 20-part series "20 Lessons, 20 Podcasts" based on my 2016 Game Developers Conference speech. In this podcast, I talk about the lesson "You don't have to change much to change everything."

Feb 9, 2018 • 58min
#510: Great Designer Search 3
In this podcast, I talk about the lengthy journey to make the third Great Designer Search happen.

Feb 9, 2018 • 59min
#509: Magic Evolution, Part 2
This is part two of my "Magic Evolution" series where I walk through sets and explain what innovations they added to Magic design.

Feb 2, 2018 • 20min
#508: Unstable Talk, Part 2
This is technically a "Drive from Work." I picked Mark up at his house to do the last podcast, so we figured we might as well do another podcast when I drove him home.

Feb 2, 2018 • 29min
#507: Unstable Talk, Part 1
I have a special carpool guest, Magic Senior Brand Director Mark Purvis. He promised to come back when we could talk openly about Unstable. And so he did.

Feb 2, 2018 • 52min
#506: Game Knights
I had the opportunity to appear on Game Knights with Jimmy Wong and Josh Lee Kwai. The three of us and Gavin Verhey drafted Unstable before its release so we could show off how fun it was. This podcast is all about my trip down to Los Angeles to shoot the episode.

Jan 26, 2018 • 39min
#505: Reactions
I've often said the hardest part of my job is making cool things and then not being able to talk about them for a long time. This podcast is all about the joy of getting to finally tell people news through the lens of the fun I had watching Unstable be revealed.


