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

Okay, so today I'm going to talk about the making of a new mechanic. So there are a lot of steps that one has to go through in making a new mechanic.

So I thought today I would talk about the process from the very beginning to the very ending and just sort

of go through all the different things we have to care about when making a new mechanic.

Okay, so first and foremost, let's start with either exploratory or vision design.

So one of two ways you tend to get a new mechanic. Number one is you create a mechanic because you get a cool idea for mechanic or you just have an interesting

idea and you sort of just go, oh, here's a neat idea.

Maybe we could build a set around it.

Maybe we, you know.

So for example, modal double face cards existed as when we had made transforming double-face cards,

we realized that we could make mortal double-face cards.

And so I was always looking for a place to include them.

And originally, the entire plan for Strickson was they're going to be built around that mechanic.

As we designed, it became apparent that it had enough flexibility that we then extended it

and put it in three different sets.

But that's an example of the mechanic came first.

We had a mechanic and we wanted to figure out where to put it.

This is the minority.

This like flashback was a mechanic that I made sort of in a vacuum.

There's a mechanics to get made. Here's a neat idea. Usually where these mechanics come from

is either you're playing a game of magic or you're watching a game of magic and you go,

oh, hey, it would be cool if somebody could do this.

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