I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

And my son got a award at school today, so I had to go to the award ceremony.

Anyway, today I have a fun topic. I'm going to talk about how all of you can design silver border cards.

So I've spent a lot of time about talking, designing normal cards,

but I spent very little time about, I mean, I've done some behind the scenes stuff about designing

how I designed them, but I've never really talked about how for you to design them. So I'm going to

walk through the common pitfalls today of silver border design. So let me start with the following.

I think silverboard design is one of the hardest things to design in magic.

I do know, for example, when I talk to experienced magic designers, and I say to them, hey, would

you like to be on a silver border design team, usually the response, some of them are very eager to do it,

but a lot of them are like, no way. You know, they're very hard to do. So even people that

design magic cards all the time recognize that it's a hard, it's a very disciplined skill.

So let me walk you through what exactly, what makes a good silver border card, you know, when you're trying to design them.

So first off, let me walk through the major pitfalls.

And I'll go in depth on each of these pitfalls.

So the number one pitfall, the number one mistake people make when they design uncards from the ones I've got to see.

Now, given I see internal, the un-cards I'm seeing are people

who work for wizards who are designing cards for an onset that I get to see. So this is not

based on the public. I don't get to see the public's cards. But anyway, based on that,

the number one mistake I see is too often they design things that can just be done in black border.

One of the truisms of silver border is that you are making something that you wouldn't make

in black border.

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