I'm pulling on my driveway.

You know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay.

So last time I talked about the story of the story.

So I explained how through the years we found different ways to tell the magic story.

So today is kind of part two. Today I'm going to talk about how we've

told the story through the design, because I'm in charge of design. And so, um, clearly the pictures

and the names and the flavor text are all very, very good vehicles for us communicating some sense of story and flavor.

But I'm not in charge of any of those things.

And so the thing that I've always been focused on

is how can the game itself tell the story,

the gameplay tell the story?

Because one of the things...

So let me walk you through something of the history, and you'll see that it evolves

over time. So in the beginning,

there was

Alpha.

So the first set that I worked on was

Tempest. The best

way to explain this is, the people that

made the sets were also

...