Changing Patterns in Magic R&D

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Andy and Anthony talk about changes to the design of Magic cards over the years: including some overt changes like “snap on equipment” and more subtle differences in how attack triggers are worded they feel would have been done differently in the past. They talk about how each changes the texture and focus of games and how they think about them as Cube designers, whether they add more options or are a reason to pick cards from particular eras of the game.

Discussed in this episode:

• Cooking Issues
• The Oldest School Cube
• Richard Garfield’s Post on Reddit
• Lucky Paper Radio 213: French Vanilla Face-Off
• Upcoming Cube Events
• Cube for a Cause AW25
• Playing Oppression PDF
• The Best Method for Shuffling Cubes
• Detailed Analysis and Comparison of Cube Shuffling Methods

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 0:31 - Tofu Corner
• 3:18 - Introduction to changing patterns in Magic R&D
• 5:15 - Changing pattern: more enter the battlefield abilities on creatures
• 21:04 - Changing pattern: the proliferation of trinket artifacts like clues, blood tokens, map tokens, etc.
• 30:28 - Changing pattern: eliminating edge-case targets
• 38:58 - Changing pattern: ’snap-on’ equipment that attaches on entering
• 46:09 - Changing pattern: ‘whenever ~ attacks’ triggers vs. ‘whenever you attack’ triggers
• 59:08 - Closing thoughts and calls to action