I'm pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's hot in front of their drive to work.

And once again, I still have my cold, so I apologize ahead of time for a little bit of coughing.

But nothing stops the podcast.

Okay.

So today is another in my series Lessons Learned.

So this is a series where I look back at sets that I led

or co-led and talk about things I learned from making the set. So we are up to Amundket.

So Amundket was a set that I co-led with Ethan Fleischer. So this is back in the era of old school

design. So we had a year's worth of design.

Six months I led, and then six months Ethan led.

We both were there the whole time.

We just sort of passed over the reins.

And while Ethan was leaving Amiket, I went on to do Ixelon.

I co-led Xelon with Kennego, which will probably be the next lesson learned.

But anyway, so let's talk about what all we learned.

Well, there were, first and foremost, here's the meta thing I learned about doing Aminquet.

I think I really thought about sets being top down or bottom up.

And when I thought about top down sets, usually the reason something's top down is there's a lot of

what we call tropes space around it. There's a lot of resonance around it. And I used to sort of feel like top-down sets were similar.

Now, I had done excellent, not excellent, I'd done Innestrade, and then I'd done Theros,

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