I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work at home edition.

So today I have Annie Sardellis, and we're going to talk all about card concepting, and Infinity in particular just because Andy did the card concept for infinity.

So hi, Annie. Hello. So let's begin with what is a card concept?

A lot of the audience might have not any idea what we're talking about.

What is that?

Oh, okay.

So, as you all know, every single magic card has a piece of art that goes with it.

And there's a lot of work indicating that art made so that it makes sense, like with the world building

and with the mechanics.

So card concepting is making it all come together

and delivering something an artist can work with.

And we do that in the form of an art brief,

which is just a little tiny paragraph of text,

which we call the card concept, that says like the setting,

like maybe the plane it's on, but what should be depicted in the art, any important characters,

you know, even like what color of man as something's associated with it, because that can inform, like, the color palette the artists use.

And we basically

whip up one of those paragraphs for every single card of the game, every single alt art in the

game even sometimes. So, and then we ship those to the artist and the AD works with them to,

you know, bring back a cool sketch. Yeah. So I have done a number of card by card stories in my column where I'll show the art descriptions, for example.

So if people are interested in seeing those, I've done numerous of them if you look at my column, like into my card by card columns.

You can see sort of examples of what will give the artist, the thing you're talking about.

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