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

Okay, so today is a topic we were discussing on my blog a bit. Power level. So let me first give

a caveat before I get into this. Not my area of expertise. Power level is much more about play

design and set design. I have an understanding

of it. I will talk about it today. I just want to start by saying, this isn't what I do day to day.

And while I have a decent understanding of it just from working on magic forever, I might be

getting some fine-tuned things wrong as possible today, it is not what I do day-to-date.

Okay, that said, let me sort of talk about what is power level.

What exactly is it?

Well, there's a couple different meanings of power level, or it can be applied a couple different ways.

First off, it talks about you can can apply it to a format, meaning that a format has a certain power

level, which means cards have to be at a certain level to be powerful enough to be played

in that format.

So levels have a power format. And one of the truisms of formats is

the more cards that are available to the format, the higher the power level is.

Now, magic tends to go backwards, meaning you tend to have formats if they have more cards,

they go more into the past, is usually how it works.

Meaning there's a lot of overlap in cards between formats, but the bigger the format,

the farther back you go is normally how it works.

There's not many formats were like, I'm this stretch of time in the middle of magic, right?

It's usually there's a time you go back toward.

Anyway, power level there is talking about sort of how powerful a format is.

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