I'm pulling out of the parking lot.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

So I dropped my daughter off for a college class and we're headed to work.

Okay, so today is another in my 20 Lessons 20 podcast series based on my 2016 GDC talk, where I talked all about the many lessons I've

learned designing the same game for 20 years. Okay, so today is lesson number 16. Be more

afraid of boring your players than challenging them. Okay, so the story for this one is actually

story I've told in my podcast, but it's part of my, part of this presentation, so I'm going to tell it again. Okay, so the story for this one is actually the story I've told in my podcast,

but it's part of my, part of this presentation, so I'm going to tell it again. Okay, so back in 1998, I made a set called Unglued, which was the very first silver-bordered set. The idea of

silver-border set is, it's a set where we can do things we don't normally do.

They're not tournament legal cards.

We can push boundaries.

And there's a lot of humor to the set.

But also, it's one of the things I'm doing from a design standpoint is just pushing directions

that Magic hasn't yet pushed.

It's a place for me to be experimental and try new things.

So one of the things I tried was I made a card called BFM, Big Furry Monster, which was a creature,

99, 99 creature, so big that you had to have two cards, that it had a left side and a right

side. In order to play it, you had had had both cards in your hand in order to play.

And then it cost 15 black mana.

And that was the most popular card in unglued,

according to our data research.

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