

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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Sep 29, 2017 • 36min
#474: Keeping Things Different
For this podcast, I talk about how you can keep things feeling different in a game that's constantly making new content.

Sep 22, 2017 • 32min
#473: Gavin Verhey
For the first time ever, I have a guest who isn't in the car with me. Thanks to new technology, I now have the ability to have a guest phone in. Gavin Verhey of Magic R&D tests out this new technology with me.

Sep 22, 2017 • 37min
#472: 20 Lessons: Designing Components
This is the fifteenth podcast in my 20-podcast series "20 Years, 20 Lessons." In this podcast, I talk about the importance of designing a component for the audience it's intended for.

Sep 15, 2017 • 34min
#471: San Diego Comic-Con 2017
I attended another SDCC and had another Blogatog Live Magic panel where I talked for the first time about Unstable. In this podcast, I talk all about what happened, including a few tidbits about Unstable from the panel that didn't make it out to social media.

Sep 15, 2017 • 31min
#470: The Pit
In this podcast, I talk about the history of the Pit—the area where R&D works.

Sep 8, 2017 • 37min
#469: Starting a Design
I'm often asked questions about how best to start a design. In this podcast, I go into detail about how to do just that.

Sep 8, 2017 • 30min
#468: Poison
In this podcast, I talk about the history of poison counters in the game.

Sep 1, 2017 • 33min
#467: Multicolor Blocks
In this podcast, I talk about the many different multicolor blocks we've made and how we went about making them.

Sep 1, 2017 • 29min
#466: Generation Decks
For the first time, I review a book. Okay, it's a book about the history of Magic.

Aug 25, 2017 • 32min
#465: Tweaks
We have to make a lot of Magic sets, and while we always make new things, a lot of our job is taking the staple things we do all the time and finding small ways to make them feel different. In today's podcast, I talk about how we do that.


