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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Author: Mark Rosewater

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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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This podcast is a companion to my three-part Making Magic series on the history of tokens. You can read the third and final column on Monday, September 8.
In this podcast, I sit down with Corey Bowen, the lead set designer of Magic: The Gathering® | Marvel's Spider-Man, to talk about the set's design.
#1272: How Magic Grew

#1272: How Magic Grew

2025-08-2931:27

In my podcast on Igniting the Spark (the new Magic documentary), I talked about doing a podcast that covered something the documentary didn't. How did Magic grow from a one hundred million-dollar game to a billion-dollar game?
In this podcast, I talk about a key component of design: set structure.
#1270: Prophecy

#1270: Prophecy

2025-08-2235:03

This is another podcast in my ongoing quest to record a podcast about every expansion. This episode is all about Prophecy, the third set in the Mercadian Masques block.
A documentary about how Magic debuted at Gen Con. I had the pleasure of participating in it, and this podcast talks all about that.
#1268: Nemesis

#1268: Nemesis

2025-08-1531:46

This is another podcast in my ongoing quest to record a podcast about every expansion. This podcast is all about Nemesis, the second set in the Mercadian Masques block.
Every year, I write a "State of Design" column where I talk about how I feel the last year of Magic design went. This year's column starts with Bloomburrow and goes through Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™. With six sets to talk about, I ended up having a pretty lengthy article, so I made a supplementary podcast where I walk through every new mechanic to give my thoughts on how they went.
This is another podcast in my ongoing quest to record a podcast about every expansion. This podcast is all about Mercadian Masques.
#1265: Group Design

#1265: Group Design

2025-08-0930:11

Magic is made not by a single designer but by a large group of people. In this podcast, I talk about how that affects game design.
In this podcast, I talk all about my trip to this year's San Diego Comic-Con.
#1263: Flux

#1263: Flux

2025-08-0135:281

The very nature of a trading card game is that it's always evolving. In today's podcast, I talk about what that means for Magic design.
#1262: Magic Card Back

#1262: Magic Card Back

2025-07-2530:19

In this podcast, I see if I can talk for 30 minutes about the Magic card back. (Hint: I did it.)
In this podcast, I sit down with Andrew Brown, the set lead designer of Edge of Eternities, to talk about the making of the set.
In this podcast, I talk about an R&D expression, "The juice isn't worth the squeeze."
In this podcast, I sit down with Ethan Fleischer, the vision design lead for Edge of Eternities, to talk about the making of the set.
In this podcast, I walk through the history of how we've used colorless in design.
This podcast explores how each of the colors interacts with enchantments.
In this podcast, I talk about how it's not enough for a mechanic to be good in a vacuum.
This podcast explores how each of the colors interacts with creatures.
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Wade Miller

man it's going to make me sound like an a-hole but when one of the people running the magic story podcast have no experience with magic until 6 months prior and the other a couple years kind of breaks my heart when there are sooooo many more podcasts and people that are passionate about this for decades it seems so odd to have someone with almost no experience to run it. I think they would be a great team member of maybe a cast of hosts while maybe having another player/lore lover that has a long history with the game

Mar 24th
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Sean May

There's no such word as 'criterias'. 'Criteria' is the plural of 'criterion'. criterion: definition from Dictionary.com: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/criterion

Jul 2nd
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Wade Miller

This interview definitely didn't make me like mark heggen any more. seemed very insencere from start to finish giving the pr answers no different than Rasmussen. they truly saw a way to cut out the middle man and they had seen over the years the growing popularity of the alters scene

Nov 24th
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Brandon Goter

thought it was gonna be on mtga I take my comment back

Mar 25th
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Brandon Goter

m.e.t.a stands for most efficient tactics available

Mar 7th
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Brandon Goter

George lopez "what had happened was" every fucking time

Mar 6th
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Brandon Goter

can't wait for time spiral remastered

Mar 3rd
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Robert M

Aren't cruiseliners basically vacations where you go spend a ton of time in Caribbean countries but in no way spend any relevant amount of money in those countries? It's oppressive bussiness that exploits countries for their paradise while keeping as much money here as possible.

Feb 25th
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Jose Duarte

This podcast about changes the fundamental rules of EDH is a time when I've never disagreed with you more especially when speaking about hybrid mana. I understand you are the color pie guru but the rules commitee is allowed to make rules about what cards go into which decks. Counter to your statement, hybrid mana is actually VERY intuitive when it comes to Commander deckbuilding. Same goes for commander damage. Many times a combo deck couuld win without the use of commander but being able to win by killing someone with commander damage. Literally this whole podcast sounds like your platform to complain about a format you rarely play. As someone whose played EDH for years, I can tell you I'm glad you're not in charge of the rules.

Feb 7th
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Whatzit Tooya

but drive to work 173 was the podcast on white-blue

Jan 4th
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J. Hunter Sizemore

Also a bit of a pun with International NGO Development terminology

Nov 27th
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Elsa Judottir

I just started listening to this podcast I totally love it

May 13th
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Chris Klumper

this guy's a 6/6 white nerd with vigilance

Apr 6th
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PAPP1

Extralong cast, oh yeah

Feb 9th
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Ryan [Insert Gimmick Here]

Finally! a podcast about magic

May 25th
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Dustin Parks

love the concept, and relish getting the behind the scenes insider content. as a player from 95, it warms my heart to hear all the back in the day history.

Oct 26th
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