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

Okay, so I recently got back from Magicon, Chicago, 2025. And at MagicCon, I tend to give a talk.

And usually the talks are 60 minutes. I have lots of slides and mostly as it means for me to tell design

stories secretly that's what it's about um i pick a topic i've learned that 20 is about the right

number of things to talk about um my big gdc talk 20 years uh 20 lessons uh 20 is about the right

amount in an hour it's about the right amount, in an hour,

it's about the right amount of things I can talk about.

So I've done stuff like the top 20,

best mechanics and worst mechanics.

So this time, I did the top 20 most influential designs.

So let me define what I meant by that,

because I, as with most talks, I sort of clarify what

it is I mean.

So I'm looking for card designs, although in a few cases, I did cycles rather than the single

card.

I mean, originally I just picked a card out of the cycles and I'm like, okay, it's really

the cycle.

So a few of them are of the whole cycle.

The idea is there were three things that had to be true for me to pick it.

Number one, it had to be something that was very popular when it came out.

Something that really like people really got attracted to in light.

Two, I'm sorry, that's actually...

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