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

Okay, so today is another in my series, 20 lessons, 20 podcasts, where I recap 20 important lessons

that I've learned over the 20 years or more that I've been making magic. This is based on the GDC

speech I gave. So we're up to lesson number 14.

Don't be afraid to be blunt.

Okay, so for each one of these, I always start with a story from magic.

So this one takes us back to Rise of the Aldrazi.

Okay, so the idea of the set was that we run Zendekar and we learned that these ancient creatures

had been trapped inside the world.

And in Rise of Adrazi, they get out because they're called the Odrazi.

And this is the Rise of the Odrazi.

So we had to figure out how to design the Aldrazi.

So the Odrazi were definitely challenging to design for.

So basically the idea was they were giant, voracious, alien creatures.

You know, they were these things that were aside of like, one of the things about them was that one of the reasons they were so hard to fight story-wise is no one understood

what they wanted.

They were kind of a force of nature more than anything else.

You couldn't reason with them.

They didn't have any sort of normal sense of reason.

So, and they were ancient, ancient beings.

They were huge.

There were three of them, the Titans we called them.

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