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

Okay, so back in December, I did a head-to-head where I took 16 possible changes, or 15, I guess,

technically, to Commander,

and I let people vote on them.

And then I am doing two podcasts.

This is the second one,

in which I'm talking about those changes from the vantage point of a game designer.

So let me start with my caveats before I begin.

So first off, I am looking at these, A, from a game

design standpoint, I do not, Wizards does not oversee the rules for Commander. There's a whole

separate group, the people that made Commander, oversee Commander, we do not oversee Commander. So

nothing I'm saying today has no actual bearing on anything.

I'm not changing anything.

I don't have the power to change anything.

I'm just trying to look at commander through the vantage point of somebody who designs games

as a game designer.

Like one of the things that's important to understand is, um,

it is my job to understand all the different ways to play magic.

I talk all the time about how magic is not one format, but many formats.

And so it's my job to understand all those formats.

I don't play all the formats, just way too many formats to play.

Most of my play, uh, the vast majority of my play for my job

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