I'm pulling out the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time from the drive to work.

Okay, so a while ago, I did a podcast on Returns, so how to design a world when you're going back to it.

So I thought it only fair to do a companion podcast on designing new worlds. So how exactly, what do you have to do when you have

a set where you're going to the new world for the first time? Turns out that this part is harder.

I mean, returns have their own challenges. I'm going to say returns are easy, but returns at

least you walk into it with something defined.

So the big thing with making a new world is that you have a lot of undefined space.

So the first thing you have to figure out is one of two things.

Sort of the top-down versus bottom-up issue, which is, is this world you're building

based on some pre-existing thing that's going to be sort of a top-down influence?

Are you trying to capture some pre-existing thing?

Examples of that would be like, Inestrade, we were trying to get a Gothic horror feel,

Theros, we were trying to get a mythology feel,. Theros, we were trying to get a mythology feel.

Amuncate, we were trying to get an Egyptian feel.

Those were examples of worlds where they were new worlds, but we were trying to sort of,

there was a certain amount of resonance we were trying to get out of them.

Then other worlds are more what we call bottom up, and that there's some mechanical element

that you're starting with. some mechanical element that you're

starting with. There's something that you're trying to capture. So Tarkir, for example, the original

point of Tarkir was we had an interesting draft strategy where it was large, small, large, and you

drafted the small with both larges, but the two large sets didn't get drafted together.

So the first thing, when you have a new world, the first thing you're trying to figure out is

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