I'm not pulling out of the driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work!

Coronavirus Edition.

So using my time at home to interview people past and present, and today is interesting.

Today I had a topic I wanted to do, which was on templating,

and I realized I needed an expert to come join me because templating is far from my, something

I'm good at.

So Matt Tabak, editor extraordinaire, is joining us.

Hey, Mark.

Okay, so first off, let's define what is templating?

So we talk about templating.

What do we mean by templating?

So templating is basically the process where we take what a magic card does its function,

and we translate that into the words that we put on the card.

So whatever a designer wants the card to do, we write to the words that we put on the card.

So when a player reads it, they know what the card does.

They know what to when they're in the game.

They know what the creature does.

They know what the sorcery does.

They know what the enchantment does, et cetera.

So it's the kind of the language that we use, that the magic rules know how to interpret the effect.

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