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 transcribedThis podcast was inspired by a number of blog posts asking why we've been adding more restrictions to cards lately.
December 3 marked my 20th anniversary as Magic head designer, and this podcast tells the story of how that came to be. It's also filled with...
How do we decide when to bring mechanics back? This podcast talks all about it.
Sometimes we make a mechanic and realize later that we could have done it better. This podcast talks about how we make new mechanics that are...
In this podcast, I talk about a procedure we do called a Vision Design Summit.
In this podcast, I talk about how we design colorless cards.
This podcast is another in my "Lessons Learned" series where I talk about sets I led or co-led and explain the many lessons I learned while m...
In this podcast, I sit down with Graphic Designer Daniel Holt to talk all about the making of expansion symbols.
In this podcast, I take an in-depth look at the current vision design process.
In this podcast, I take an in-depth look at our current exploratory design process.
This is the tenth and final podcast in my three-color philosophy series. This time I talk black-green-blue.
In this podcast, I sit down with Ovidio Cartagena, the art director of The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, to talk about worldbuilding and the visual...
I interview Co-Set Design Lead Jules Robins to talk about how the underground set moved to Ixalan.
In this podcast, I talk about the vision design for The Lost Caverns of Ixalan. Things don't always work out, so this podcast looks into a ve...
This podcast is the ninth (of ten) of my three-color philosophy series. In this one, I talk blue-red-white.
In this podcast, I talk about one of my favorite effects in Magic: copying.
In this podcast, I talk about the spectrum of meeting players' desires. At one end is designing cards the players are asking for, and at the...
In this episode, I sit down with Designer Gavin Verhey to talk about the design of Magic: The Gathering® – Doctor Who™.
Our new office is open, so I'm back to driving to work. In this podcast, I talk all about the ways we design for Limited. Due to traffic, thi...
This is the eighth podcast in my three-color philosophy series. In this one, I talk all about the philosophy of white-black-green.
