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

Okay, so once a year, I do a series in my column called Nuts and Bolts, where I just talk about sort of technical design, where I get in deep and I talk about how to design a set.

And so if you read all the different columns, I just keep walking through, just different

skills and things you need to know to make your own magic set.

And the idea was that I want, like, I like encourage people making their own magic sets.

I think it's lots of fun.

I can't see them.

But I do think it's a great way to sort of get involved in magic. And I want

people that are really interested in design to have a resource to help them in building their own

sets. So that's why I started nuts and bolts. It is just very technical. But what I found is

for a lot of people that aren't building their own set, just gives a lot of insight to how design

works. And so I've discovered that people like the column, both for those that are, in fact, need

the information so they can do their own magic design and others that just enjoy, just, you know,

peek behind the curtain.

So my latest one, which I think was number 18, was calling layering mechanics. So I thought I would do a podcast

today to talk about layering mechanics, which is an interesting concept that I don't know a lot of

people think about. So here's the core idea that's important behind it, which is your set is

going to have multiple mechanics. But the way you have to put mechanics in your set is you have to put them in one at a time.

And the reason for that is, so one of the things I've done in my in nuts and bolts is I've talked about what's called the design skeleton.

And the idea is it's a tool when you're building a set. Basically, the idea is there's slots that you're filling.

You know, so we use card codes.

All of this is in the nuts and bolts.

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