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

Okay, so today is all about test decks, for which many of you will say, what are test decks?

Well, I will explain today. I'm getting into the nitty gritty. So first off, what is a test deck? So there's a point in design, often early, usually in exploratory design, where we need to test

a thing that we've never tested before, a brand new thing.

Now, normally in design, the most common play testing we have is what we call limited play testing,

where we're playing either sealed or draft.

And that, you know, once you have the ability to do that, that is a very good way to test your things.

We need to test sealed, you know, limited formats anyway and just using that as a means to have a chance

to play the things. Now, there are a couple of reasons why limited playtests won't work.

One is you're testing actual formats like standard and you're building real decks and you

want to sort of test constructed. And for those, you have what we call a playtest deck, which means you're building real decks and you want to sort of test constructed.

And for those, you have what we call a play test deck, which means you're building a deck in the

environment that you're playing in. So let's say you're playing in future, future league,

which is standard, but you know, a couple years in the future. You still have, it's a 60 card

deck. You're following four-off rules.

Like, you're following all the rules to standard.

And then you've access to any cards that are in standard within the time you're playing.

You know, the future standard, these are the sets that are in it.

That's what you can play from.

You can choose from those sets.

But that is normal playtesting. That's not what a test deck

is. A test deck is

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