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

Okay, so today I'm going to talk about the dynamics of designing in a team.

So one of the things that is interesting about magic design is it's not made by one person.

I mean, obviously Richard made the game in the very beginning.

But even then, he had a lot of playtops after there's a lot that we worked with.

But nowadays, beyond the creation of the game,

every time we design magic, it's not done by a single person.

It is done by a team of people. And it's not only done by a team of people, at some point in the process, that team of

people passes it over to a different team of people.

So the idea is, you know, we'll have an explore design team, and then it goes to a vision

design team, and while there's overlap between those, they're different people. Then it goes to a vision design team. And while there's overlap between those, they're different people.

Then it goes to a set design team.

And the lead of the exploratory and vision sometimes is the same.

But the lead of the vision and set almost never the same.

So it's changing to somebody different.

And then play design is also, again, somebody different.

So the idea that making magic is an act of a group design, not an act of singular design.

So today I wanted to sort of talk about what is the nature of group design?

How does it differ from individual design?

And then talk about once we understand the nature of that, how does it impact how you do it?

Okay, so first let's talk about the, I mean, I have a nice vantage point, which is prior to working at Wizards, I was a writer.

And while I did do like, you know, I was, I worked in a sitcom room. That's a group experience where you're bouncing ideas off one another.

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