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

And today is another in my lessons learned series, where I talk about sets that I led or co-led and talk about the lessons I learned from doing them.

I talk about all the time that magic is an inner-to-process of game design is an inner-a- that you learn you do things you get feedback on them you make changes and you improve and that um

I like to think that magic design is iterative ongoing you know magic's 25 years old and it keeps getting

better because we keep learning from what we've done before.

Anyway, today we're going to talk about Dominaria.

So Dominaria was one of the more daunting designs I had to do.

And then here's the real reason is early magic, we spent a lot of time in Dominaria. I'm not quite sure why, for a game all about Europlanes

Walker and there's all these, there's a

multiverse of planes, we spent a lot of time on

Dominaria early on.

In fact, I forget the exact number, but

30-some sets, I think

were set on Dominaria.

And really, you know, early magic was kind of like we kept moving around planes on the same...

Sorry, moving around continents on the same plane.

We just kept visiting new parts of Dominaria rather than...

Like, you know, in a modern sensibility,

the Ice Age plane and the Mirage plane and, you know, like, these different places wouldn't

all be the same place, that one plane would be the snowy ice world, and one would be the hot

jungle world, and one would be the post-apocalyptic world.

The idea that so many of our worlds

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