I'm not pulling my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for other drive to work at home edition.

So today I have J.D. and Klum Perrin, who is the lead, I believe, of the play design team for March of the Machine.

Hey, Jadeen.

Hey, how's it going?

Okay, so we're going to talk all about what it takes to, you know, do play design for a set.

And we're going to use March of the Machine as our example.

So, okay, talk about like when you first saw March of the Machine, what stage was it at?

Where, when did you see it?

So I was actually on the set team for more or less the long haul.

I think I started very early.

So I saw it right after the vision handoff and got to start thinking about all the play

design headaches that would be caused from the very beginning.

Okay.

So what worried you most?

What was the thing you were most concerned when you first saw it?

I mean, the big one with March on the Machine was just a brand new card type, and not just a brand new card type, but one that we wanted to do at an as span of one per pack.

Every single one of these packs, you were going to get a brand new card type.

You know, when we introduced Plainswalkers in Lorwyn, we started with five.

That was a much easier to execute beginning of a brand new card type.

Here we made on the order of 30 brand new designs at the end of the day.

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