#1350: Marvel Super Heroes Design

Mark Rosewater· Host0:00

I'm pulling in my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another Drive to Work. And today, I get to talk about a set that I've been dying to talk about. Today is about the design of Marvel Superheroes. Magic: The Gathering Marvel Superheroes. Very exciting. Okay, so, um, let's go to the very beginning. So when Aaron Forsythe first pitched the idea of Universes Beyond, uh, he made a little presentation, and he talked to a couple individual people. I was one of the people he talked to. He showed me and he goes, "What do you think?" And the literal first words out of my mouth were, "Dibs on Marvel." Uh, so he came to me about, I don't know, a year and a half later, and he goes, "We're pitching to Marvel, and I want you to make the cards." So I had to make, I think I had to make seven cards. It had to be in all the colors, um, various, uh, card types, various rarities. Uh, and for one of them he said, "Mostly, I want you to do just the stuff they'd expect, but we should do one deep cut just to demonstrate that we're fans of the property." Um, and I'm trying to remember. I did, I did, like, a Scarlet Witch, and I did Rocket, uh, and I did Thanos. Uh, I did, like, a member of S.H.I.E.L.D to show a common. I think I did Cap's shield. Um, but anyway, my deep cut was, uh, Doreen Green, AKA Squirrel Girl. Uh, I've, I'm a j- I mean, I'm a big... I've been a Marvel fan, just I guess to be