I'm not pulling in my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work at home edition.

So I've been interviewing the representatives of all the different colors. So today we have Blue with Ethan Fleischer.

Hey, Ethan.

Hi, Mark.

So we're going to talk all about blue. So you have the record of being the member with the longest,

representing the same color from the longest amount of time.

That's right.

I've been the blue color pie counselor for as long as the color pie council has existed.

Yes.

Everybody else, every other color has had multiple people,

but you are the, you've been

blue's, you know, watcher the whole time. So I think as we talk blue, hopefully, you've thought

a lot about blue. So it's true. Okay. So first up, let's talk about where, what do you think of

the state of blue right now? Let's start there.

I think that blue is in a really good spot right now.

I think that we've identified some challenges for Blue in the last few years that we've overcome.

But in general, it feels like when I work with the lead designers of various sets, they have a really clear understanding of what blue is supposed to do, what blue is not supposed to do. So it is a

relatively quiet color, and we've only identified a small number of sort of structural issues that need to be solved

with blue. Okay, so A, I want to talk about the challenges we just talked about, and B, we'll

talk about the continuing structural challenges. So what were the challenges the last couple

years with blue? The big challenge of the last few years with Blue has been how our limited environments evolve.

We found that the most fun types of limited environments are ones with strong threats, but also strong answers,

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