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Okay, so today's podcast is all about where do mechanics come from? It's a question I get asked a lot.

So I thought I'd sort of walk through. I mean, the short answer is many, many different places.

No two mechanics in somewhere made the same.

But I want to talk today about lots of different inspirations and sort of give a lot of examples

from different mechanics. Okay, so let's start. I try to organize these. We'll see how good

my organization is. Okay, first is sometimes cars are inspired.

I'm sorry, sometimes mechanics are inspired by a single card.

Two examples.

One is we're in Lorwyn.

We're doing a tribal set.

We're trying to figure out, we wanted people to be able to connect different tribes together, that it was getting

a little bit too siloed.

So I remembered a card from Kamagawa block, a card named Miss Form Altinus, which was a very

popular card.

It was a legendary creature that was all creature types because misforms in

Kamagawa were creatures that you could change the creature. You could pick a creature type,

paid man to pick a creature type and change it, or grant it that creature type. But the

misform altruise says, no need. I am every creature type. And so we were

trying to solve Valorwen problem, I remembered that. So the changeling mechanic is literally just saying,

oh, let's take this cool thing we did on this one singular card and make a mechanic out of it.

Now, the funny thing at the time, one of the complaints I got was, no, but Mr. Maltals is

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