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

Okay. So today I've dubbed what I'm calling subjectivity in design. Let me explain what I mean by that.

So oftentimes I talk about how everybody has a line in the sand for what magic is to them. And I often describe how

that line in the sand is just different from different people. What makes magic magic, the line of

where magic is and what's not magic. I think everyone has a line, but it's different. But,

R&D does have to draw a line.

Like there is a lot of metaphorical lines in the sand.

There's an actual line in the sand that R&D have to draw, right?

There are some things that we want to do and some things we don't want to do.

And so today I'm going to talk about that.

How, why is it sometimes we do things and other times we don't?

Like what, where does the subjectivity of design come from?

That is today's topic.

So first and foremost, let me talk about sort of what is the mission statement as far as I believe it is R&D.

And boiling down to the simplest version of it,

we want to make the best possible game of magic

for the most possible people.

Magic is an amazing game.

We want lots and lots of people to play magic,

and we are trying to make it something that many,

many different people can enjoy. One of the challenges of that mission is, and I've talked

about this all the time, players don't want the same thing. It's not like players are a uniform group

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