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Okay, so today's topic was requested for my blog. I was asked about the evolution of top-down and bottom-up design.

So the thing about, so I want to go into what they mean and talk about where magic design

used to be and where it is now.

I think, okay, real quick, let me find my term so people know what I'm talking about.

So a top-down design means that the, usually the beginning and the core structure of your set is built

around flavor. The easiest way to think of this is if I took all the names off the cards,

would the thing that holds the set together, would the connective tissue of the set make sense?

Would you understand what's going on without the names and flavor?

A bottom up is a reverse.

It's one where you sort of start mechanically, and the core of what you're doing is mechanical.

Let me give some examples.

Inesrod is an example of a top-down set.

Based on Gothic horror.

And the themes of the set, caring about the graveyard,

caring about monster typo, caring about death.

Those are all things that just play into the general theme of a gothic horror.

But let's say I stripped all the words off the cards.

I just replaced them with, you know, or they're just blank.

And I took all the words that had flavor like, you know, vampire and just replaced them with

type one and type two and type three and type four.

You would look at Innestrade and you would sort of say, oh, I see there's, okay, there's

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