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Okay, so today's podcast is all about themes. Why do we do themes? What is the value of doing themes?

So the way I thought I'd approach this today is I'm going to walk through the different steps of making a magic set and talk about why each step along the way, why it appreciates themes, why themes are important.

So we will begin with exploratory design.

Go to the very beginning.

So the value of having a theme,

like one of the things to remember is we make a lot of magic sets.

And we want the magic sets to be different from one another.

Like, one of the things that I often talk about is,

I think most magic sets are 80 to maybe 90% the same thing. That, you know, magic sets are 80 to maybe 90% the same thing that, you know, magic sets are,

magic sets are something that are the core of it.

Like you ever see the design skeleton?

I talked about making, for those that have read by nuts and bolts columns, is each

slot has an allocation.

Oh, this is a green giant growth-like effect.

This is a counter-spell.

This is a kill spell.

This is a small creature, a medium creature.

This one costs one to two mana.

This costs three to four mana.

That there's a lot of different slots that break down.

And so one of the things that we're, one of the things you understand is you make magic

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