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

Okay, so today I'm talking about batching. So I'm talking about the history of batching, why we do batching,

what the value of batching is, what batching is, if you don't know what batching is. So let me start

with that. What is batching? So batching is the tool where we list a bunch

of different things together, but then make a vocabulary word that goes in the rules text that says,

oh, do thing X. And then in the reminder text, we define what it is. And batching by definition

means that there's usually two to five items that we're connecting together.

So let me walk through the history of batching and then I'll get into why batching is an important

tool for us. Okay, so the story goes back to Dominaria. So we were returning to the place that

started at all. So when Magic first began, the main setting was

Dominaria, and in the first 10 years of magic, the vast majority of sets took place in Dominaria.

Not everyone, but most of them did. Even though we had a multiverse to explore, we didn't do a lot of

multiverse exploring early on. So anyway, after time spiral where we had the mending, we

basically had messed up Dominaria quite a bit. It was a little post-apocalyptic. We ended

off going off and starting really building a multiverse of just spending years going to other

worlds. So by the time we decided to go back to Dominaria,

13 years magic wise had happened,

I think a lot more than that in story.

And so at this point,

we had more gotten the habit of making worlds

have a certain feel to them,

a certain mechanical definition.

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