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

Okay, so today is all about reusing things. So in magic, we do a lot to innovate and come up with

brand new things, but sometimes we use things we already have. So today, I'm going to go from the micro level up to the macro level and talk about reusing things.

So let's start by talking about cards, what we call reprinting.

So the idea is we make lots and lots of cards, but sometimes, sometimes in the set, we won't make a new card, we'll bring back an old card.

Okay, so there's a bunch of reasons why we reprint cards. Let me walk through those.

So number one is just basic functionality. For example, every set has a giant walk variant, a giant site, giant growth variant.

You know, we're going to have a common green spell that makes things bigger.

Now, a lot of the time, it's a riff on the newest mechanic or something that just ties into the theme of the set.

But every once in a while, you know what, we just want giant growth.

And so, you know, there are

times we just, we want certain functionality. And our general rule is we don't invent cards

just to invent cards. If an existing card will fulfill the role, we do that. And so we try

to shake it up. We try to make, you know, we don't want every set to have giant growth

exactly. But some can, and there's definitely certain staple magic effects that we do all the time,

and those get reprinted. Another thing that we'll do is we will do reprints based on what I'll call

nostalgia, which is, you know, we're going to a world,

and one of the things we always look for is, is there something from the past that we think

might be fun to be here? Sometimes it's because it's just very flavorful, you know, like we're on

Theros and like, oh, tragic know, like we're on Theros and like, oh, tragic poet.

Or we're on Inestrade and like Blazing Torch.

You know, we're somewhere where there's a card that seems like it was made for the new world

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