I'm not putting on the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work.

At Home Edition. Okay, having lots of people I talk to, so today I have Chris Mooney to talk all about the making of Commander,

or Streets of Newcompanic Commander decks. Hey Chris.

Hello. Okay, Chris. Hello.

Okay, so you were in charge of the design for the... There's four... no, there's five Commander Decks.

Yes.

One for each family.

Okay, so let's start from the very beginning.

Okay, I mean, obviously, you knew you were...

I mean, we knew from the very, very beginning you were doing with the five, the five factions.

That was a given from the get-go.

But what were the challenges in figuring out what they, they did?

Right.

So, um, when we start making commander decks, typically we're starting maybe halfway-ish through set design,

so of the main set. So what that means is that the major themes of the set have been determined,

most of the mechanics have been nailed down, and a large part of the flavor in the world building has also been done.

So coming in, we have a lot to work with.

But also we sort of, you know, that we also have a lot of things that we need to

accomplish in order to make sure that we're sort of lining up with the expectations

people have from the main set.

So for each of these five families, we had the general idea of what they were all about

flavor-wise, what they were about mechanically, and we knew mostly what each of the mechanics

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