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

Okay, so today's topic is an interesting topic. So, I recently celebrated my 28th anniversary of working at Wizards.

October 30th is my anniversary. Um, so one of the things I've realized,

having worked up with just for a long time,

is one of the sort of the natures of doing magic design

is you come up with good ideas.

Not every good idea happens right away.

That just because you have a good idea doesn't mean that it necessarily fits on what you're working on. And that one of the keys to good design that I talk all the time about is you want to make sure that you are maximizing what you're doing in this set.

If a particular card or mechanic doesn't advance

to the rest of the set, then it doesn't belong in that set. And that when you first start

working on magic, there's a desire just to get every cool idea you have in right away.

It's just like, I've just a great idea. I want to get it printed. Let's get it printed.

But as you work more on the game,

you sort of matured a little bit as a designer,

you come to realize that you have to serve the design,

meaning that even if an idea is very good in a vacuum,

that it might not be the best idea for the set you're doing.

But, as I like to say, magic is a hungry monster.

We make a lot of magic sets and a lot of magic cards.

If you have a good idea, it will find a home.

But it doesn't always find a home very quickly.

And so I want to share some stories today about ideas that I had and just show about how, you know, things happen at a different rate.

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