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!
1174 episodes transcribedIn this podcast, I look back at the history of artifact destruction.
In this podcast, I talk about how we design activations that require a color not found in the mana cost of the card.
In this episode, I talk about the history of bonus sheets from Time Spiral to The Brother's War.
I sit down with Yoni Skolnik, the lead set designer of The Brothers' War, to talk through its design.
I do a lot of interviews on my podcast, so this podcast is all about what it takes to interview people and offers some tips on how to do it w...
In this podcast, I'm joined by Ari Zirulnik again (he oversaw names and flavor text for Unfinity) so that he and I can give more off-the-cuff...
In this podcast, I walk through all the various things that have to be done when doing a top-down design.
Part of my job involves talking in front of large crowds. In this podcast, I talk about what that's like and offer tips on how to do it well....
Magic constantly changes and evolves, which means that we as designers must keep changing how we approach design. This podcast talks about th...
In this podcast, I sit down with Rules Manager Jesse Dunks to talk about choosing acorn and Eternal Unfinity cards.
In this podcast, I talk about how we go about costing cards.
In this podcast, I sit down with The Brothers' War Lead Art Director Taylor Ingvarsson to talk about the world building and art for the set....
In this podcast, I talk all about the design of The Brothers' War.
In this podcast, I talk all about my time at Magic 30 in Las Vegas.
At Magic 30, I did an hour-long panel sharing personal stories about 30 different pictures I'd chosen from 30 years in Magic. In this podcast...
In this podcast, I sit down with Ari Nieh, the lead vision designer of The Brothers' War, to talk about the set's vision design.
Unfinity is the first time I ran a Set Design team. This podcast talks about what I learned about set design from the experience.
I travelled to Victoria, Canada to participate in the Unfinity Pre-Prerelease with Loading Ready Run. In this podcast, I tell the story of my...
This is part four of a four-part series on the design of Unfinity.
I sit down with Graham Stark and Kathleen De Vere to talk about writing names and flavor text for Unfinity.
