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

Okay, so I've recorded this podcast a little bit after my state of design article went up.

And one of the feedback I got was, well, I gave a lot of sort of talked through what people felt about things.

I didn't do a lot of giving my opinion.

I just, there was a lot of, not a lot of space. My word count got used up talking through all the

things of what we had learned. But people wanted a little more like crunchy, what do I feel?

So I thought I would do a whole podcast. So this, I'm going to do something new. What I'm calling the Mechanic Review.

So what I'm doing is I'm going to take all the mechanics and themes of the sets of the last

year. So starting with Lord of the Rings and going through Modern Horizons 3, all the ones I

talked about in my state of design. But I'm just going to talk about the specific, I mean, the stuff that is in my bailiwick,

if you will.

I'm not talking creative.

I'm not talking card balancing.

I'm talking like core design, like larger picture mechanical things.

That other stuff, not my circus, not my monkey.

Other people are in charge of that.

I will talk about things that I oversee.

Um, and, and just talk about larger picture things and give my opinion on how we did this

last year, going a lot more into the nuts and balls, because that's what people wanted.

Um, that's the feedback I got.

Uh, and I have more space in my podcast to do this than I do in my column.

So I thought it would use my podcast.

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