I'm not playing on the driveway.

We all know what that means.

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

Okay, so today is another in my series I call Lessons Learned.

So this is where I take a set that I led or co-led, and I walk through sort of all the lessons I learned while making it.

So today, we're up to Kamagawa Neon Dynasty.

Okay, so let me get some context before we get into talking about the design.

So I have a blog, blog or talkog that some of you I assume know of.

But anyway, it's a place where people can write to me every day.

I answer questions.

And there are definitely recurring themes that happen there.

Like one of the things my blog does a good job of just what are the things that people

keep asking for.

Now, be aware, my blog is a little more of what we call enfranchised players.

If you're coming to a blog written by me, the head designer, probably you have a little more

knowledge than the average magic player.

So I temper this on my blog that, look, this is a more enfranchised players, but, you know,

we want to yourself from franchise players.

You guys are longtime fans of the game, so we definitely want to do things for you.

So one of the themes that had come through a lot was this desire to go to Kamagawa, or go back to

Kamagawa.

Now, champions of Kamagawa came about because Bill Rose liked the idea of us doing a top-down block.

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