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Okay, so I like talking about design in my podcast. So I'm going to talk about a type of design that I haven't dedicated a whole podcast to what we call blue sky design.

Okay, so the idea essentially, the way to think of it is design is a long process.

At the very beginning, it's very open-ended. You can do what you want. That's blue sky. We'll get

to that in a second. But as the design progresses, it's more about figuring out what you're

missing and filling in holes. There's a lot of what we call prescriptive design,

meaning that I'm designing to fit the needs of the set.

But early on, in the early days, when nothing is yet designed.

So what blue sky design means, and this isn't a term we invented, it's a design term,

the idea that anything's possible. That's why it's blue sky, that I, I, I, everything, you know,

and so I want to talk a bit today about blue sky. I'll give some examples of blue sky design.

So one of the things as a designer, there are different skill sets that people have as designer.

Some designers are very good at like matching the needs of the set.

Oh, we need a certain kind of mechanic.

Well, tell me the parameters and I'll make you the mechanic.

Or we're trying to capture a certain flavor.

I'll make cards that capture that flavor.

And there's a lot of really important

design that is adapting to what you need. In fact, the majority of design is mostly in that camp.

Oh, we need a blue uncommon, and these are the themes of our sets. Like, a lot of design is

crafting to what you need. But today, today is the joyous thing.

So the fun thing about blue sky is the idea that really nothing is off limits.

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