God I really love Mark's excitement for every single thing MTG related.

Interview, as in "Mark Rosewater finally unleashes everything after years of not getting to make an Un-set, while Graham nods, a benevolent smile upon his face". I like it.

The way Mark rosewater described the garbage elemental reminded me of the Friday night's episode where Paul tries to algorithmically derive magic Origins. I hope in 5 to 10 years we can see flunge.

Those chairs combo great with Graham's sweater!

In the second round of my unstable draft, I was playing against the daughter of the owner of the store where it was held. She played Spike, Tournament Grinder, then borrowed her dad's vintage deck, and used Spike's ability to pull Time Walk out of it. On the Time Walk turn, she used the Spike ability two more times to get Voltaic Key (banned in Modern!) and Time Vault, and I didn't get another turn that game. Died to a boatload of Squirrels.

1. Mark is such a wonderful guy! 2. I think he made a deal with a mischievous genie for long life, and the genie tricked Mark by speeding him up so that he'd live several lifetimes in the span of just one regular lifetime.

That feeling when I had 6 Blurry Beebles in my first draft deck and would have gone 3-0 if it weren't for my second opponent going to his car to get a pair of 3D movie glasses...

Unstable was fantastic! Looking forward to the next one, which should be in another six years. Don't be forced to make one every year or every two years, it'll lose its charm.

Seeing Mark Rosewater being so enthusiastic about the work he does makes me feel good about being a MTG player.

Maro is great, as always but I’m surprised how well graham plays interviewer. More of this please!

Aw cool, a third Drive to Work this week

Host and augment is the perfect simic mechanic

I love this set. I hope that it is successful enough for rosewater to make another one. Doesn't have to be soon, but at some point. I loved getting to see his passion project come to life.

I love mark. The way he is so animated when talking about magic and his unending excitement just makes me happy to watch

This guy Gets it!!! Yes why not "Un-format"? It's awesome at least Unstable is soo good . So fun. Really hope it doesn't take this long for the next Un or something like Un-sets . There's an audience. And those lands are..... beautiful, just beautiful. Thanks Mr.Rosewatter!!!!

i want more vids in this format please

Post-Post-Release Pre-Prerelease Interview!

Why don't people call unset constructed Deconstructed

This was great! Love the interview!

I loved all the Un-Sets, and loved seeing you field Un-set questions on your tumblr for years. Thank god it actually happened, I hope it's super successful and opens up even more silver-border opportunities. Casual has a real audience

Unstable seems perfect for building a Set Cube around, and I'm working toward just that.

Mark Rosewater does not need a microphone... I can hear him through space and time. The man has a very "intense" voice.

My first deck of this set was a typical blue black control with my only rng card being time out. I also used spike to get a senseis diving top every game since I had two of him in my deck. It was a fun draft.

I loved this video, please make it for every PPR if possible!! I already knew about most of the stuff they talked about but MaRo and Graham are such a delight that I watched it anyways

Awesome insight, cant wait to draft this thing. Love me some wacky Magic.

Unstable was my first live draft and I had a blast. So much so that I decided to stay at my LGS and do a second one, which I then went on to go 3-0 and take 1st place in.

Now I want to play that robot building game.

This content is so good! great value, first pick!

I could listen to Mark for hours.

Honestly, I want to see Contraptions in Black Border. There's nothing overly weird about them mechanically except for them being in their own deck.

I GOT A GOD BOX. ROSEWATER YOU ARE THE MAN.

As one of those grinches that has zero interest in comedy sets/Un-sets/thinks they are... silly in a cringey way... this interview was still super interesting. I love how excited Mark seems, to the point that he cannot control the volume of his voice!

Next un set needs to be called Unfriendly and have enemy color factions and more contraptions and host/augments. Keep borderless lands and tokens only in un sets..

OMG he is SO excited. Sounds like me when i'm talking about something.

"Buy some Unstable. If you want."

At 24:03, Mark says "Host and Suture". Obviously this means there's early drafts of the Host and Augment art where they're stitched together instead of squeezing through a porthole!

Bestow into Meld into Host-Augment (Stitch/Suture) Sealed > Draft

Sounds like a summary of his Drive to Work Unstable series

Nice set GG 😎👍

How did I miss this?

yay!

the game Maro describes where you're building a robot sounds a bit like Bears vs Babies, the second Oatmeal-drawn card game.

That unpublished build-a-robot game reminds me of Armored Core--which makes me happy, because I love that game.

when are yall gonna post the draft so we can see the great games?

"Contraptions are like 10 years out." Dang I was really hoping for those to get black bordered, seemed like a balanced mechanic that was great to draft & play in general.

The shows recorded that G-Bomb was talking in the beginning in the video arent still up yet right? (Or i didnt find them?)

I want to buy Unstable but my game store can't get enough in.

And excellent example of what happens when you lose NWO and just focus on creating a deep and complex (though uncomplicated) set. Best product they've released in a long while.

I want to hear about how resources are allocated...

my favorit mechanic i want added is a triple strike to do damage with first and last strike. so for example if you got a 2/2 if it battles another 2 power creature it dies. if it battles say a 1/4 it can kill it and if somehow it fights a 1/6 it kills it so it cant defeat a 2/2 but a 1/6? no problem. to me its just a really cool thing. plus it really punishes people for letting it through because its not a 2 damage its not 4 its 6.

"Buy some Unstable " I already did

Is an audio only version available?

I hope I'm anywhere near as excited about my job as Mark when I get to his age. That man is a coca cola bottle full of mentos of enthusiasm.

unstable got my friends who are too busy for magic to play magic again

Mark, do you and your team ever play other games and analyze them? Do you ever find good ideas from other games?

Hey, so I went to the Grand Prix New Jersey and did an Unstable draft on Sunday morning. I was in draft pod 1 and there were 2 pods at our table, I cast Gimme Five, my opp was like "oh no!" And like it was fun so I get out of my seat and proceed to go down the unstable draft pod giving high fives and like, it's cool cause for some reason people get pumped for no reason just giving high fives, I get up to 10 high fives when one of the judges for the Unstable drafts, but dude came from an area not playing unstable, comes up to me and proceeds to stop me, I'm like ignoring him cause I have a timer and he doesn't speak english and like nerd rage and his broken english has me not remembering the situation well but I think I said what the f... I'm on a timer... and the judge told me I am not allowed to leave my seat when playing gimme five. And I argued cause like I'm on vacation and playing Unstable and he is making no sense... But I walk back to my seat and the dude follows me all the way to my chair like I'm some autistic kid in elementary school and he's the paraeducator... I only know this cause I was a paraeducator and worked with autistic kids with other paraeducators for a year in 2014... Anyways, point of this story is, according to the magic Judges, it is up to the Judge's descretion whether or not a player is allowed to leave their seat when playing high five... I think the Judge Program, as is, is a real problem for the Magic: The Gathering brand. Someone at Hasbro might want to considered absorbing the good judges and making the Judge Program a part of Hasbro cause like out here in the Sacramento area, I've drafted like kitchen table style with one particular judge who I've seen on camera judging the finals of like SCG Oakland back when Khans was out and the dude straight up attempted to cheat me multiple times cause cheating is fun or something, ie he has autism... (Oh yeah, my thesis documentary at NYU was asbergers syndrome back in 2007... Judges probably shouldn't be too far on the Autism Spectrum imo, foreign judge felt like some grown kid I paraeducated was like picking on me...) But yeah, asked Channel Fireball for my money back. The head judge for the unstable tourny in a doctor mario jacket seemed embarrassed that judge did that when I asked of I am allowed to get up during gimme five, but he defended the ruling saying this is unstable so judges can rule differently. But damn, talk about beong embarrased for no reason. Won't do anouther unstable draft at a GP again, can't handle the ahole party crasher judges lurking out there...

Just about the trample on spells thing... According to the judge reddit page its simply because trample is only defined on creatures. As in the rules for trample specify creatures and not damage delt by spells or creatures... And that is apparently the reason why trample does not work on spells...

rap god

i hope they make more unsets maybe an unconspiracy multi player unset

Contraptions make me think off the failed day/night cycle for werewolves

Whoooooooo! MaRo!!

the weird people of the world, like Mark, are somehow the smartest and most creative people

so he did the rules? Then can he please explain More Or Less? We had THREE judges and THE ENTIRE store debate their rules. For example, when casting a spell, then can I make their spell cast for 1 more before casting. Then what happens to their card?

I WILL RISE TO THE TOP!

Mark Rosewater seems like an all-around great guy, but man does he ever talk fast. I usually listen to interview videos like this in the background while doing something else, but if you don't give Mark your full attention it is nigh impossible to make out what he's saying... ^_^;

Mark you're at a 9, we really need you to bring it down to a 6 buddy.

I'm sad there isn't an unstable league

My play group is doing frontier sealed and very excited to draft unstable.

I hate drafting, but I love unsets. This was the most fun drafting experience of my life.

Upon seeing this video the exclamatory that erupted out of my mouth was *BOI*

New world order has been a damper on creative card design (especially for commons) for too long and I'm glad that Maro's team could breathe new life into this set. I just wish that some of these cards were black boarder-ed for commander!

I'm glad there weren't any wacky frames. No wacky frames in the future, please.

I wonder if he'll return for the Roseanne revival.

Triplestrike furst.

I actually dont like MaRo too much, since he made a lot of decisions about Magic I dont like, but listening to some interviews it seems other people at WotC are waaay too conservative. Thats interesting, because I found some stuff they made way too experimental. But whats for sure, they definitely need to bring a set like future set or an un-set every 5-10 years too open design space.

Got my lands and that's all I cared for

1st, kinda

Mark Rosewater is a personal hero, but dear God does he just scream all of the time?!

Is Mark on a bunch of uppers? What the hell...

BTW, opp was awesome, he was just as confused as I was that a judge was called or he just read my face go from happy to angry from half way down the table and stopped my timer when I began talking to a judge. Bad beats were more just, everyone is looking at me being scolded by a judge, dude barely spoke english so like I even think I said "maybe learn to speak english better because I have no idea what ypu are saying to me as he was walking me back explaining why I am not allowed to get out of my seat while playing gimme five. I just respect judges now like I respect other humans but like I'm probably be on the let the program die and support Hasbro absorbing that trash pile that it is now. Also, no commons for sale at GPs? Barely any uncommons... Like people should be avle to go to GP's and buy a magic deck.... not the case and the vendors are mostly all aholes... just stunting any growth these grand prix could produce in player base and it feels like that is the intent cause like, "sealed product speculation" or something. Anyways, those are my rants...

nope still dont care about lands, basic fine

why is he always yelling? chill, take a deep breath and talk calmly

Terrible interviewer. Good thing Maro just talks lol

Free Jeremy.

Mark is toxic to MTG community. I believe it's him that has been instrumental in all that's happened to Jeremy @ unsleeved media and other similar players who have done NOTHING wrong. His SJW bullshit has ruined and divided the magic community. Him and others @ wizards are responsible for all the crappy things that have happened from 2012 - 2018 regarding the community. Ugh can't stand this guy. I love you LRR and I know you have to have him given who he is in magic. But you should look into some of the divisive things this guy has done and said to the "community". This blind worship of the guy is painful to see when people don't know what he's done. You might not care about politics, but when you have wizards excluding political beliefs half the country has and making stupid remarks (of which Mark has been involved in most of them), It WILL impact your game long-term. I encourage you to speak out against bringing anything political into magic and say "no" when anyone from Wizards pushes this identity politics rubbish. The game's long term health depends on it.

I mean, i think, well i want to say, did i etc. Learn how to speak dude.

All this effort put into a fake set while you have bannings in standard. Seems like your head's in the right place. The fact that this set got more done for it than a normal expansion is infuriating. I'm looking at the Rivals packaging and 3/5th's of the art on the boosters looks terribly flat. The character art on the planeswalker decks looks off and unappealing along with the art on the new cards in the decks.