I'm not pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive-to-work,

coronavirus edition. Okay, so today I'm going to be talking about a recent article. So every year,

I read an article called Nuts and Bolts, where I explained, it's geared to add amateur magic

designers, sort of giving them tips and tricks about how to design magic cards and magic sets.

And meanwhile, for everybody else, it's sort of like just giving you some behind the scenes of,

you know, more technical advice of how we do things.

Anyway, this year's article was on something called initial ideation.

So how you get your ideas and how do you turn the ideas into something more concrete.

And so what I thought I would do today is talk about that and then give some examples of sets I worked on to sort of walk through sort of how that happened in the past.

My article didn't give a lot of examples.

I thought in my podcast I would give some more examples.

Okay.

So the idea of ideation is that when you start designing really anything, but I'm talking

magic, so magic design, you need to start with an idea.

You need to have something you're working towards, something you're building around, that you need to have some direction. Now, here's the important part, and this is one

of the main things I will stress, I stress the article, I'll stress on the podcast today.

What you start with isn't necessarily where you end. You know, a lot of the way ideation works is you have an idea, you push toward it,

you learn from it, and often it steers you in a new direction. So I'm going to talk about some of my

past designs to sort of walk you through this idea. Okay, so I'm going to start with Ravnika,

original Ravnika.

So what happened was, the initial idea was I wanted to do a gold set, a gold block,

because Invasion Block had been very popular.

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