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

Okay, so today's drive to work. The topic is based on a question I got on Twitter.

So I was asked how we decide how to make our build-arounds and both what rarity we put them at, what card type we put them in, like how do we

decide how to make them. So first I will explain what builder rounds are and then I will explain

how we make them. That is today's topic. Okay, so a build around is a card designed to encourage

the player when building their deck to build a certain theme or strategy into their deck.

Like a build around says, hey, to maximize me, your deck wants to be different than normal.

You want to lean into something.

Maybe it's a certain creature type.

Maybe it's a certain color or color combination. Or maybe it's a certain creature type. Maybe it's a certain color or color

combination or maybe it's a certain mechanic or style of play. Like it's doing something that says,

hey, you want to function a little bit differently. Like when building your deck, you want to

build your deck a little bit differently because if you do this thing, I will give you some reward that's worth it in your

deck for doing that. That's a build-around. So when talking about build-arounds, really we have to

talk about what format we're making them for. We make lots of build-arounds for lots of formats,

but in order to just explain that, I need to walk through it.

Oh, another thing before I get into how we do it, I also want to explain that there are different

kind of buildarounds.

I guess I should explain that first.

So there are what I would call Timmy Tammy Builderounds, which is

it just lets you do something you're excited to do.

Oh, I've always wanted to have a deck built around

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