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

Okay, so last we talked, we had given the contestants of the third grade designer search,

the design test, trial number three. So I over the last two, have been grading all the tests.

And so what I thought today would be interesting is I want to talk about some common mistakes beginners make when designing magic cards.

And I will use some of the stuff I saw from the great designer search as a means to sort of, as some examples.

I do want to say, by the way, before I, there was a lot of really cool stuff done in the design test, a lot of really good work.

So when I point on things that were not the best, I don't want to somehow say that all the people who did

stuff didn't do great work. They did. There actually was a lot of interesting things. As you guys

will see or have seen, I guess, since it's the future. There's a lot of cool contestants we're

going to have. But today is a little bit more focused on sort of rookie mistakes, beginner mistakes.

So what is the number one mistake people made?

And this is a mistake I actually saw on The Great Designer Search is too much text.

People sometimes are like, I want to make a cool card and do cool things and tell a cool

story.

So I'm just going to keep piling things on it

till I'm, till I have lots of things on it. And that one of the things about magic design is the

importance of elegance is that you want the card to do something, do it well, you know, be the card

that it is, and then that's it. you're done. And a lot of the text,

like one of the things I noticed from judging the test was how many times somebody would

give me text that literally would not fit on a magic card. And so this first mistake,

it's not just that people put too much text in a sense of it won't fit on the card.

Sometimes people do that.

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