I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

And I drop my son off at camp. Okay, so today is all about artists, a very important part of our process that I have not talked about.

I've gotten around the edges and some stuff will talk today. I've talked about a little bit.

But, okay, so one of the most popular parts of a magic card is the art.

And people ask a lot of questions about the art.

In fact, the funny thing is when I tell people that I make magic cards out in the world,

a lot of times they think that I mean I make the art, which I don't.

Well, I did once and not that good art.

But today I'm going to talk about the people that actually make the art, the people that know

how to draw.

Okay, so the first question people often ask is, so, you know, do the artists all work at

wizards?

And the answer is mostly no.

Our artists are almost all freelance.

We do have some concept artists that are in the creative team.

And most of our art directors started by being artists for the game.

So, you know, our art directors are all capable of doing art, but they

do not tend to mostly illustrate cards once they become art directors. And so the way it works is

that there's a large freelance pool that we have many, many artists, hundreds of artists. And the

idea is that for any one project, we will figure out what artists make the most sense. So let's say

we're making a magic world. One of the things that the artists will fit, well, actually, let's go

at the very beginning. So we're going to make a world. We're going to make a brand new world we've never made before.

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