I'm not pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. This is another drive to work at home edition.

Okay, so today I'm here with Jess Dunks, the rules manager of magic.

And so the topic that we're going to talk about today is I or members of my team will come up with crazy ideas for new mechanics that do things we've never done

before.

And then we have to talk to Jess to go, can we do this?

So I want to talk about sort of how we carve out space for things we haven't done before.

Clearly a lot of things will come to you.

You're like, yeah, yeah, we've done that.

No problem. You know, a lot of the will come to you. You're like, yeah, yeah, we've done that. No problem.

You know, a lot of the space we do is actually a known space.

It's easy to do.

But some of the time, and especially the earlier on, the earlier on in the process,

the more out there our ideas are because we're experimenting, especially exploratory.

Okay, so just let's pick,

I'll let you pick whatever, um, whatever mechanic you want to talk about, but let's walk through

an example of I or somebody comes to you and says, Jess, I want to do this thing. How do you,

how do we handle that?

Yeah, that's a great question.

That conversation most often is just somebody coming to me and going, here's what I want to do.

Does this work or can this work?

Sometimes the answer is yes, and that surprises people, where it's just like, yeah, this already works out of the box.

But sometimes it's known that like, hey, I know this is weird.

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