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

Okay, so today I'm going to answer a question from my blog and talk all about power level.

I'll explain what exactly that is and why we care about it and why for design is something we need to understand.

Okay, so the question asked me on my blog was we've been

previewing Modern Horizons and someone said, hey, why couldn't all standard sets just be of the

power level of modern horizons? And I said, that's a good question, a good enough question

that I could answer on my blog because there's a lot to it. It's actually very complex. It is, and I realize that I've never talked about power level and it's a

pretty important concept. So I'm going to talk about it today. Okay, so let me start by asking

the question that the most basic question that I get asked, power level related, that is. So we make cards, we then cost them.

Not every card is costed to be tournament viable.

Not every card.

A lot of times people will look at a card, they go, oh, if that card costs one less,

I might play it.

Why doesn't it cost one less?

Why is every card not cost it so that it's played?

Okay, so first off, let me explain a little bit about the idea of that there's a system,

that power level is inherent within the system.

And what it means is, when I say power level, I'm talking about how powerful something is.

If you just make everything, well, so how about this way?

Let me explain it this way.

In design, in vision design, we do a thing when we're testing early on where we put everything at an equal power level,

where every card is just costed so you could play it.

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