335- Gathering the Magic

99% Invisible

• Episode: 335- Gathering the Magic
• Website: 99% Invisible
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• Duration: 00:30:04
• Published: 2019-01-02 00:54

Magic: The Gathering is a card game and your goal is to knock your opponent down to zero points. But Magic: The Gathering also has a deep mythology about an infinite number of parallel worlds. Eric Molinsky of Imaginary Worlds looks at why this handheld card game has survived the onslaught of competition from digital games, and how the designers at Wizards of the Coast create a sense of story and world-building within a non-sequential card game.

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