I'm pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so today I'm talking about mental processing.

So a little while back, I did a podcast on logistics, which talks about all the extra physicalness that comes with certain cards and I said that

there was a companion to that that we care about which we call mental processing

and what that means is the metaphor I will use because I like metaphors is imagine a

human brain like an engine and as you rev your engine it starts getting up into the red zone, right?

There's a point in which you're just revving a little too hard.

And so the thing we got to be careful about is if we make...

Whenever we make cards, it's going to make people have to think and process.

And some of that is good.

Magic is a mental game.

You know, it's a game in which people want to think, you know.

But you can exhaust people's ability and you can overrun, you know, you can rev their

engine a little too hard, right?

You can make them think a little too hard.

So we want to be very conscious when we make cards to think about what mental processing is

going into it. Now, another tricky thing is that different things matter to different players,

that there's different things to process. And in general, as you get better at the game,

you learn to shorthand some processes

and then your mental energy goes elsewhere.

So I'm going to walk through sort of the three stages.

I did a podcast in the past where I talked about complexity, and I divide a complexity into three parts.

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