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

Okay. So one of the topics that's been going on my blog lately is talking about legendary creatures.

And so today I thought I talk about the design of legendary creatures. So what goes into making a legendary creature?

So we tend to get to legendary creatures

on a couple different ways.

Number one is sometimes

the story people come to us

and they say, oh, well, here are characters that are going to be in the story.

You know, this is the leader of this faction, or this is a character that we plan to be a protagonist in one of the short stories or something.

And so some of the time, they come to us and they say, this is a character we plan to have. And usually what happens

then is they sort of give us a description of the character and that that is a top-down design.

That is us trying to say, okay, I'm designing to a known character. How do I bring that character

to life? And the point of design of those kind of cards is literally just trying to match the character as cleanly as we can

with the caveat that we wanted to be an interesting card to play.

It is not one of the traps that you can fall into when you're doing top down

is sacrificing play for accuracy of representation, of, you know, capturing the

flavor exactly. And what we've learned is it is better to capture the flavor generally and just

play better than be dead on and have it exactly right but not play quite as well. And so one of the

tricks on doing top down legendary characters is that you want to

definitely sort of keep in mind, you know, that the goal is not to capture it as best possible

with no other objective.

The goal is to make something that's a fun, playable card, but that

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