I'm not pulling in my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work at home edition.

Well, I'd like to use my time at home to do interviews. So today I have Melissa Datorra on with me. Hi, Melissa.

Hey, Mark. Thanks for having me. Always great to be on.

And we're going to talk all about the casual play team, which is something that you oversee. Yeah. So I guess we'll just get right into it and talk about what it is. Yeah. So we did do a podcast once before. So we're not going to – we'll do a little bit of explaining. But we're going to get into the much of the crunchier side of things today. I want to talk about what you guys do, how you work on sets.

So we're going to get into that. But just to introduce the people that maybe haven't heard

the last podcast we did. What is the casual play design team? Okay, so we're a playtesting team.

We playtest mostly commander. You know, we play constructed commander decks using cards of upcoming sets we also playtest commander

precons we play test every magic product that we make which includes main sets jump start commander

precons mechanical unique secret layers basically anything that we release that has mechanically unique

cards we will play test in the context of Commander.

Okay, so we're going to just make a mythical set here, mythical set X that we make.

So we're going to talk about we make set X.

So when does your team, when's the first time your team would get involved with set X, let's say?

Okay, so the first time our team will get involved is probably about the same time that play design will start working on the FFL part of the set.

So pretty late in the process.

So I'll just talk about some things that we do during our, what we call focus periods.

So the team will do a file pass.

Leave a bunch of comments in the file for the leads for every set. We'll hold meetings

with the various leads. So for the main set, we'll hold a meeting with the FFL lead,

which is Jdeen. And the main set lead will vary from set to set. So let's use a hypothetical set lead. Let's use

Andrew Brown as an example. Okay. Well, we did this for EOE, so I think that was the most recent

set that he led. So get in a meeting room, go over all of the rairs and mythics of the set,

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