I'm pulling out of a driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time to drive to work.

Okay, so today is a Gamerie topic.

People ask me all the time, people are designing their own games.

They ask me questions, and so one of the things I like to do in this podcast is kind of help out game designers.

So I want to talk about how to start a design today. It's one of the

hardest part. I mean, there's many hard parts, I guess, to design. But I want to sort of walk through

exactly when you're beginning, what do you need to do? What are the keys to success? Because the

keys to success in a design start right away and have a lot to do

with the decisions you make very early on. So today's podcast is about those decisions. It's about

how you start a design. Okay, so first and foremost, I like to say start with a golden idea.

And what I mean by that is usually when you start design, you want to have

some really strong idea. You want to have, it's not that it needs to be fleshed out. It's not that

you need to have all the answers to it, but you need to have something that sort of just says, okay,

I sense potential in this idea. So today I'm going to

talk about a bunch of different designs I did for magic. I even going to talk about a few designs

that aren't magic. Just sort of talk about how, when you start. So for example, let's take some

sets. I'll take a couple sets that obviously turned out really well.

So Ravnika, my golden idea when I began Ravnika was I wanted to make a multicolor block

that was about two-color play in which all the pairs were equal.

Because that's not how we had treated two colors at the time.

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