I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for our drive to work.

Okay, so today I'm going to answer the question, why don't we do something?

So one of the things that happens a lot on my blog is people come up with ideas for themes they want.

And sometimes, you know, I go, oh, that's great, or it's on the short list, or, you know,

but sometimes I say, you know what, I don't think we're going to do that theme.

And people usually don't respond well to that.

For example, the most recent one is in March the Machine, Morganda pops up again.

And so Mora Ganda is a prehistoric world.

We first showed off in FutureSight.

And one of the cards in Future Fights that first showed it off was a Vanilla Matters card.

So because there's just not that many things in Mora Ganda, some people connect vanilla matters to Mora ganda.

And so people are like, oh, we got to do a vanilla matters theme.

And I'm like, well, no, no, we don't.

It's not going to be a good theme.

And normally what happens is that people come out of the woodwork to explain how to make it

work and they, you know, oh, you can use more for, you can use token creatures or whatever.

So I want to talk a little bit today about when I say no, when I say why I don't think we'll do something, I want to talk about why do I say no, why?

And the answer is that part of my job is to explore possibilities. In fact, we have a whole thing

called exploratory design, and the whole point of exploratory

design is to just explore ideas.

It's to just go, oh, what if we did thing X?

Now, the way exploratory design works is, I like to say we go wide, not deep.

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