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 talk about the role complexity plays in game design.
In this podcast, I talk about the mechanic flashback. I discuss how it got originally designed and the many different blocks that have used i...
This is second part of my two-part series on the design of Amonkhet.
I asked for feedback about my podcast, and one of the most common replies I got was that people would like me to occasionally mix in more rec...
One of the questions I get most often is "How can I become a game designer?" I answer that question in this podcast.
From time to time, I dedicate a show to talking about the many people who have worked on Magic. In this podcast, I'm talking again about R&am...
In this podcast, I talk about one of the design tools we use—counters. I go through the various kinds and talk about how counters help us exp...
Wizards has made many games other than Magic. So many, in fact, that I needed two podcasts to talk about them all.
Magic is just one of the games Wizards of the Coast has made. Today, I walk through the many, many others.
This podcast is the fourteenth in my 20-podcast series based on a GDC speech I gave in 2016 about 20 of the lessons I've learned designing Ma...
I talk about the use of different frames and walk through the many times we've used frames to aid the game mechanically.
On my blog, there was some discussion about the mechanical theme of "vanilla matters." (Vanilla creatures are creatures without rules text.)...
One of my popular features in my "Tales from the Pit" comic is an ongoing "sit-com" with planeswalkers I make using the Funko Pop! figures. I...
In this podcast, I talk about the difference of designing a set for a new world and designing for a return.
This is a history podcast where I talk all about the history of Prereleases, from the first one for Ice Age to modern day.
Wizards of the Coast makes games other than Magic. Today, I talk about one of our other big games. I discuss its history, how it influenced M...
I talk a lot about the design of Magic, but there are many other teams that design has to work with. This podcast talks about all these other...
In this podcast, I talk about the nuts of bolts of rarity, including some history about how different rarities have worked over the years....
This is part two of a two-part series where I examine the first Great Designer Search in detail. I walk through all the tests to get in and t...
This is part one of a two-part series where I examine the first Great Designer Search in detail. I walk through all the tests to get in and t...
