

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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Jan 26, 2018 • 35min
#504: Hackathon
R&D started a new process called a "hackathon" where we take off a week and work on future speculative products. Today, I'm going to explain how it works and walk you through our first two hackathons.

Jan 19, 2018 • 33min
#503: Unstable Rules
One of my many jobs is Un-rules manager. In this podcast, I talk about my role and about many of the weird rules of Unstable.

Jan 19, 2018 • 41min
#502: Slivers
In this podcast, I talk all about the history of one of the most popular creature types in Magic, Slivers.

Jan 12, 2018 • 42min
#501: 200 and Counting
This is Part 2 of my look back. Note that while there will eventually be a Part 3, it won't be for a while.

Jan 12, 2018 • 46min
#500: 100 and Counting
I took a page from my column and decided to take my 500th podcast to look back at all the podcasts I've done. It turns out 500 is way too many to do in one podcast, so I just talk about my first 100 podcasts. This is a good chance to hear about some of my early podcasts to help figure out which ones you might want to listen to. There's also a bit of behind-the-scenes information about making them.

Jan 5, 2018 • 32min
#499: Lessons Learned: Kaladesh
This is another in my "Lessons Learned" series where I talk about a design I led (or in this case co-led) and walk through all the lessons I learned from doing it.

Jan 5, 2018 • 32min
#498: The Move
The entire third floor was recently remodeled, which resulted in R&D being moved to a different section of the floor. This podcast is all about the move and the many pieces of Magic history I discovered while moving.

Dec 15, 2017 • 32min
#497: Symbols
Magic has had a lot of symbols show up on cards over the years. In this podcast, I talk about them all.

Dec 15, 2017 • 30min
#496: Vision Design
In this podcast, I go into greater detail of how the new vision design team works.

Dec 8, 2017 • 32min
#495: Vision, Set, and Play Design
Last year, R&D changed the structure of how we make Magic cards. In this podcast, I explain the change and introduce the three new parts of Magic design in R&D.


