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

Okay. So today, I'm going to talk about design, specifically about designing commons.

So when you start a design, one of the things that I always do, I encourage all my other

designers to do, is you always want to start with commons.

Why is that?

A couple reasons.

First off, when someone opens up your set, they're going to open up the booster pack,

and of the 15 cards in the pack, one cards

of land, one card is a rare, these are all on average, obviously, and three cards are uncommon.

The remaining 10 cards are common.

That means two-thirds of every booster pack are common cards.

So when you talk about an experience that people get,

whether it's through limited or even through casual constructed,

two-thirds of all the cards they see are your commons.

Well, if your set is going to work,

two-thirds of it have to be conveying the message of what you're trying to do.

So one of the things about doing commons first is

they really are the basis

of what your set's about. And that one of my dictums that I always say is if your theme's not a common,

then it's not your theme. And what I mean by that is that your commons make up such a large

portion of what the set is that if your major themes aren't there,

then they're not going to be as publicly seen as themes elsewhere.

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