The Magic Show #160 - Zendikar: Designer's Commentary

[bodybyviww]

OMG!!! Zendikar Ken is freaking awesome!!!

[MrBadluckchuck]

Really, if I didn't know better, I would say he is a bit drunk or stoned. But I know better.

[MrBadluckchuck]

@MrBadluckchuck Never mind, hes just really really nervous.

[lokasenni]

the sacrifice spell lands were fine in their original forms. dumb players are apparently too stupid to realize you the spell component is to prevent mana flood. The same argument can be made for cycling lands, "dur, I'm gonna cycle all my cycling lands cause I can. Now I have no mana :( " Yet cycling lands were not cut from design?

[themagicdudeSG]

you outfit looks like its exibiting signs of HOMONESS!!!!!

[Hazedream]

Ken Nagle's the shit man!

[MarinhoPlayer]

HEY mr.

where is 161? please your killingme man

[MTGBrandon]

it's sad that Sorin isn't good enough to be played in a good vampire deck. I wish he wasnt so slow to get out on the field. :(

[TubeYouUser123ABC]

Ken "I love the fatties" Nagle australian accent sucks.

[johnanr]

the videos usually come out on fridays.he probably took just took a week off

[Lostfeaion]

Must have new episode!

[booruthless]

Evan if you're busy with real life stuff, believe me, I understand. Just know that there's a lot of us out here that appreciate what you do and are chomping at the bit to see 161 uploaded!

[driftingsmoke]

ok im fiending for a new episode :|

[bruisermoore]

Mr orange (resevoir dogs fan?) where is your new video you're killing me!!

[DanielHoward777]

where is 161 :'(

[kong0lol]

okwtfwheres161

[TomasuRikabe3]

I intentionally missed my third land drop in a zendikar draft! Peeled a geopede on the third turn with only one land in hand. Twas' a good play.

[PBeetheFox]

I think he meant to say, "I'm Ken Nagle and welcome to the Magic Show"

[futuredp]

I met the CEO of Ensemble Studios, and like most smart designers, they have zero social skills or understanding of social engagement or interest.

[TubeYouUser123ABC]

Ken "I love the fatties" Nagle looking for a fucking Emmy for that performance.

[LordLuuke]

Cool to hear some of the stuff explained, would have also liked to hear something about the reason why treasures were put in....

Pulled a Force of Will as a treasure myself ;)

[EddDeedoo]

im loving the franz ferdinand keep playing more cool indie music

[caeser70]

Why no mention of the priceless treasures?!?!?!

[brasswirebrush]

Love the interviews with the people who actually make Magic.

Ken man, you need to work on your delivery and storytelling.  Got a bit better towards the end, but your answers were so meandering and given with such lack of enthusiasm that I was falling asleep.

[2ndLawl]

Also you can hear Evan Sigh Loudly, every time ken responds with "So we...."

[2ndLawl]

Ken Nagle Is the worst Interviewee ever.

He gets asked a strauightfoward, direct and specific question and responds with a tangentally related story, that does not answer the question at all.  I cant tell if he is intentionally dodging the questions or just not paying attention.

Also he is creepy as fuck.

[tsinivla]

LOL

[EvilMuppet1979]

And looks a little bit like Brian Peppers.

[skwiskar664]

future?

[m3l0q]

nice vid!

@PocketUnv his using so cuz he's basically never ending the sentence he's just continuing to talk a one long story

[thebeerbaron666]

Ken Nagel looks like a future paedophile to me

[PocketUnv]

Is it even possible for Ken Nagle to start a sentence without saying "so..."?

Great show, these interviews are always fun to watch.

[MrFreak0r]

great episode again, thank you evan

[BoxcarWilly284]

remembering that magic is marketed to many audiences cancel is a kitchen table spell. its something for recreational blue players to stop recreational green players 8/8s. they want to make it available to this audience. and for its uses in limited.

[jimmycrackcorn1981]

i love mtg

[durangoislaw]

TL;DR version

Mana bugs let you cast things faster.

Sorin is"n't" Vengeant.

Obsidian fireheart and stigma lasher are ok but morph wasn't (watch it again, he said it)

R&D thought about ripping off wow's quest mechanic and yugioh's trap mechanic, but thanks to clever word play never have to fess up to it.

Thank you Evan for laughing/scoffing at him every step of the way.

[deviaan]

In their defense, quests existed well before WoW. I'm pretty sure WoW's quest system is a modified version of the Everquest one or some other MMO.

[EvilSwordProductions]

Quests were before fucking Everquest, I'm pretty sure MUDs had quests, which were the offspring of homebrew RPGs for the computer, which were the offspring of real pen and pencil RPGs.

[durangoislaw]

WoW's TRADING CARD GAME had quest cards.

[edgewalker18]

Excellent cheesy music there Evan. Great episode as always!

[iCobalt]

Oh God, Ken, why??? /facepalm

Great show, as always.

[DrahcirNagrom]

Would have loved an explanation for why Cancel was reprinted again. They know it's not good enough to see play outside of limited as evidenced by Forsythe's comment in a previous video( don't remember which one it was but Chapin was playing Gargadon, lark, Body Double and Wall of Roots...)

[firemaster885]

Good show this week!

[DopeJedi]

I am going to be Zendikar Ken for Halloween.

[necrid110]

dood your amazing

[EvilMuppet1979]

Or even better, go as Ken Nagle.

[Bones2flesh]

loved the show the transition music was cheesy lol. But i did like that Ken dressed up to play along with the theme of Zendikar, plus he had magic cards in his hat

The Show Was All Pro!!!

[line0freeskier]

didnt like the transition music

maybe cause im tired.

[arturoalmenar]

I couldn't kept listen you smokin, man. haha nice show

[solidsnakered]

thinking about it, the Kaldra Equipment are like "Quest" artifacts. if you manage to get all of them in play you get a legendary creature .

[SmoogieDiciple]

that explorers get-up made me lose all respect for him

[DrFGHOBO]

Weird fact. With Cancel in Zen, we now have 3 different cancels in standard.

2010, Alara, and Zen.

I'm pretty sure that this is the first time anything like that has ever happened.

[Jhimbob]

What's funny is, everyone still hates Cancel.

[TaimalaiX]

Stone Rain during the times of Mirage/Tempest blocks and 5th (I think) edition. But yes, it doesn't happen very often.

[bloodymental]

Ya.... I think it was completely pointless for them to put cancel in three type 2 sets.

[danbaker90]

ken is just great

[FreshmanThesis]

hurr durrr

[nathones]

great show.

I only wish you asked bout such weak blue in zendikar. card draw and counter wise.

I dislike blue and almost never play it but I hate it when I have awesome green cards w/ relevant anti-blue abilities that just don't matter anymore. seems like a waste of design space in formats like standard.

[JodoYodo]

axe murderer

[cxeazn]

Riding the Dilu Horse is the fourth card that lasts forever!! :)

[hypn0t1c]

lol "the deuce of calamity"... that's "Deus", Ken, not deuce... dropping the deuce! lol

[ThePetSnake]

Ah, As Always, great job guys! Love the outfit Nagle. And its always good to see that R&D get out of their cave every once and a while.

[gtisawesome]

anyone want to take a ride in my zendikar?

[DJSamurai37]

LOL at Ken

[murfitt12]

Creedence <3

[EnAttendantG0D0T]

Nagleeeeeeeeeee

[Irgamerhearmerawr]

silly ken

[wowrulez111]

INTRO WIN

[aggeloui24]

nice show

[barneylovesbeagle]

kill the music...

[jvdthwip]

Our previous comments were lost when you reupped, but thanks, since now I get to see the "one more thing." :D

Anyway, like I said before, he misunderstood the question, but I think the answer is that things like the Shards trilands or the M10 duals are themselves "strictly better" than the Invasion duals. I think such fixing needed a boost, since it's just a little weak given the shift from good spells to god creatures.

[MyLittlePwnys]

when the R&D team were thinking up trap card, did they ever stop to think "hey this is just like Yu-Gi-Oh"

[jvdthwip]

For all we know that was the basis of the "face down suspend" idea Nagle talks about. Like he said, though, such an idea simply didn't work, and Magic already had a (imo much better) solution to "traps" which was the instant.

[meamdantheman]

Lol that's exactly what I thought when Nagle was talking about Morph with Suspend...good thing it didn't happen

[jfuite]

Swell show, but the resolution was so poor on my screen during this episode that I could not read the cards' text.

[jvdthwip]

YT adds the HQ version a little bit after the LQ version. This was uploaded less than an hour ago I assume, so...

[TheOneAndOnlyDumbCow]

interesting indeed, love to get some inside/behind the scene infos

great job

[daynrk]

Great show I love Zendikar

[DTrooper458]

Great episode, as usual. The fact there are 21 minutes of this goodness deserves a million thumbsup.