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

Okay, so today I'm talking about tools, magic design tools. Okay, so if you are building a house, you know, you need a hammer, a saw, a drill, a measuring tape.

They're just things you would need to build a house.

So I want to talk a little bit today about what exactly, like what tools we have available

for magic.

And I want to talk about the core challenges of making a magic set, like pulling back a

little bit from a big picture.

So back in 1993, Richard Garfield vents the trading card game.

So trading card games have some inherent, weird challenges to them from a game design standpoint.

So, for example, if you buy Monopoly,

you get all the pieces, you get the board,

you get all the cards, both the property cards,

and the community chess cards,

and you get the little pieces to move around the board,

you get plastic hotels, like you get all the component pieces you to move around the board. You get plastic hotels.

You get all the component pieces you need to play the game.

And if my friend John and my friend Shelley, they go and buy the game, they'll get the exact same

thing.

So anybody who wants to play Monopoly, who's going to start to play Monopoly, has the same

basic components to play with.

But in a trading card game,

that's not the case. You get a randomized number of cards, and so there's no guarantee exactly what you're going to get. So when we make a trading card game, we have to design in such a way

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