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

Okay, so today's topic is based on a question from my blog. So the question was, do we design for art?

Meaning do we design cards, like how often do we see art and then from the art design a card?

The answer is not a lot, but not never. I've come up with five different ways that we designed

art. So today I'm going to explain the process a little bit and then get into what those five

examples are and then talk about how exactly

do you designed art. That's today's topic. Okay, so before I get into how, let me talk about

how we normally do the process and then I'll get into the exception because designing for art

is the exception. Okay, so normally the way a magic set works is, in exploratory design, vision design, set design,

we design cards.

And at some point, set design, we have what we call art waves.

In set design, there's numerous art waves.

It depends how big the set is.

There's usually at least two, sometimes more depending on the set and how much art is needed.

So what happens is set design is coming up to an art wave.

So if they need to do, first is they have to tag cards to say,

these are cards that we're ready to get art for. And then we do what's called card concepting.

So it's a meeting between someone from the creative team, who's the card conceptor, the art

director, the lead designer of

for set design, sometimes the editor, and occasionally it could be a few other people. And the idea

is you look at the card, see what it does, what mechanically what it does, and then you have to figure

out, okay, well, creatively, what does that mean? You know, let's say you have a direct

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