In this podcast, I sit down with Andrew Brown to discuss the design of Zendikar Rising.

#923: Zendikar Rising with Andrew Brown

In this podcast, I talk about my history with Magic trivia and how to make your own Magic trivia.

#924: Making Magic Trivia

This podcast is another in my "Lessons Learned" series where I explore what I learned during the making of sets for which I led or co-led design.

#922: Lesson Learned – Ikoria

When Unglued was first concepted, the idea behind it was that we could design cards for non-tournament play. What exactly does that mean, and what does it entail? In this podcast, I explore the parameters of non-tournament design.

#921: Non-tournament Design

I sit down with Designer and Rules Manager Jess Dunks to talk about the challenges of managing the rules and dealing with me as head designer.

#920: Managing the Rules with Jess Dunks

I sit down with Designer Ethan Fleischer to talk about the design of Oath of the Gatewatch.

#919: Oath of the Gatewatch with Ethan Fleischer

One of the cool perks of my job is that I've had a lot of opportunity to travel to other countries. The country I've visited the most is Japan. In this podcast, I share three stories from three different visits to the Land of the Rising Sun.

#918: Stories from Japan

I sit down with Designer Aaron Forsythe to talk about the design of Lorwyn.

#917: Lorwyn with Aaron Forsythe

In this podcast, I talk about using different card frames as a design tool and get into the history of card frames that changed for mechanical reasons.

#916: Card Frames

I sit down with Designer Matt Place to talk about the creation of New World Order, something he and I created many years ago to tackle a big problem the game was having.

#915: New World Order with Matt Place

This podcast is about my latest Nuts & Bolts article on initial ideation. In it, I explain how one starts designing a Magic set around an idea.

#914: Initial Ideation

I sit down with Senior Copywriter Ari Zirulnik to talk about what exactly Magic copywriting is. He and I also lightly touch on writing the names and flavor text for Unfinity.

#913: Copywriting with Ari Zirulnik

In this podcast, I explain the history of watermarks, talk about the various ways we use them, and explain why we can't mechanically care about them outside of Un- sets.

#912: Watermarks

I sit down with Designer Gavin Verhey to discuss the making of his Good Morning Magic videos.

#911: Good Morning Magic with Gavin

This is a podcast version of my article where I talk about the challenges of designing Magic when it's a different game to different players.

#910: The Big Picture

I sit down with designer Chris Mooney to talk about how the Council of Colors works, and he and I talk a bit about white, as he's the white representative on the council.

#909: Council of Colors with Chris Mooney

I walk through the history of the God creature type and share stories about how we designed the different incarnations of them.

#908: Gods

There's no one in R&D that's a bigger fan of Kamigawa than Daniel Holt. He worked on more Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty teams than any other person at Wizards, so I sat down with him to talk about how we made sure Kamigawa was well represented in the set.

#907: Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty with Daniel Holt

This is another in my "R&D Vocabulary" series where I explain various lingo R&D uses.

#906: R&D Vocabulary, Part 5

I sit down with Designer Corey Bowen to talk about the design of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Commander decks and Set Booster cards.

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast