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

Okay, so today's topic comes from my blog, and not just my blog actually, from social media in general.

One of the things that's been going on is R&D has been using restrictions a little more. Only play this as a sorcery. Only play this on your turn.

Only activate once per turn. We've been using a little more of restricting how often or when you can

do something. And the response I've gotten from numerous places is why are you doing this? I want to do what I want to do and why are you

taking away my fun. So today, today's topic is why do we do restrictions? Why? Why?

Why? So I'm going to explain the philosophy behind restrictions and why it's important.

And why we do it secretly for you, not secretly, but why in the end it's good for you.

So that is my topic today.

Okay, so I think to start with, let's talk a little bit about game design in general, not

specifically magic design, although we'll get to that, but just talk about game.

What is the purpose of game design?

Got to go big.

So the idea is that games are a mental challenge.

So the idea is I give you the game player,

I, the game designer, give the game player a goal or goals.

I give them a bunch of rules.

And then usually built in those rules are obstacles.

And the idea is they have to overcome those obstacles to meet that goal or goals.

And that's what makes a game dynamic.

But what's important to understand is it is the job of the game designer to make it not

easy to do that.

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