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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!

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast Mark Rosewater

    • Leisure
    • 4.8 • 669 Ratings

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!

    #1136: Being a Team Lead

    #1136: Being a Team Lead

    What exactly is a lead designer responsible for? In this podcast, I walk through what the lead designers do during exploratory design, vision design, set design, and play design.

    • 30 min
    #1135: Monocolor Design

    #1135: Monocolor Design

    In this podcast, I talk about how we design monocolor themes for both Constructed and Limited.

    • 35 min
    #1134: Alphabet

    #1134: Alphabet

    In this podcast, I talk about how R&D uses the alphabet to design Magic cards. I walk through the alphabet, explaining how we use each letter.

    • 30 min
    #1133: Naming Sets with Ari Zirulnik

    #1133: Naming Sets with Ari Zirulnik

    In this podcast, I sit down with Ari Zirulnik to talk about how we name Magic sets.

    • 31 min
    #1132: Sixth Edition Rules

    #1132: Sixth Edition Rules

    Back in 1999, the Magic rules had the biggest change in the history of the game in conjunction with the release of Sixth Edition. In this podcast, I walk through the major changes that happened.

    • 32 min
    #1131: Magic Stories about My Dad

    #1131: Magic Stories about My Dad

    My father, Gene Rosewater, died on April 17. In this podcast, I share stories about him that relate to Magic. Warning: This one's a bit of a tear-jerker.

    • 32 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
669 Ratings

669 Ratings

mathiue777 ,

Mark is amazing

Mark is so genuine, intelligent, and full of energy. i’ve listened to this podcast for years and just listening even after I stopped playing really makes me appreciate what goes into this product. The way, Mark approaches. It is such a science of creativity, even if you don’t play magic you could actually apply how he approaches this subject and create a similar process for things in your life that would benefit you.

kamuishirou ,

Loved since the beginning!

Great story telling and a lot of inside information. MARO is an amazing and wonderful Magic creator.

Ollie the Goon ,

Thank you MaRo

My son, who got me into this amazing multi-plane world, is my Sensei for all things Magic…I asked him how he can retain all the facts and figures from Magic’s long history, and he attributes MaRo’s podcasts for keeping him constantly refreshed…And I never miss them!

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