I'm putting on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay.

So last night, I got a text message from Matt Kavada, and he asked if I could give him a ride today.

Now, it turns out that I already done my podcast for this week, so I wasn't planning to do a podcast today.

But I haven't had a chance to do a podcast with Matt in quite a while.

So I thought I'd leap on the opportunity.

So in honor of Matt Kavada, I've chosen.

So whenever Matt in the car, I tried to pick a topic that I think Matt would add a lot to.

And so in the past, we've talked about Plainswalkers that he was the impetus in creating.

We talked about flavor text and names, both of which he saw at one point.

So today, I'm going to talk about another aspect that Matt has had a lot to do with.

The art.

I spent a lot of time talking about design.

So I spent a lot of time in this podcast talking about the stuff in the rules text.

But there's a whole... The card has many more facets to it. And one of the most compelling

facets is the art box. So today, we're going to talk all about what it takes to make art.

So for those that aren't unaware, before I'm on the way to get mad, obviously, let me remind you of a few things.

So our artists are freelance. All of ours are the vast, vast, vast majority of artists don't work at Wizards.

And so what happens is we use them all freelance to do the work. And so when Mac gets here,

we're going to walk through what the process is and how one becomes an artist. And I'll talk all about the process. But be aware that all the artists that we use are freelance artists. And that Matt, as you'll see, started as a freelance artist. In fact, that's the way I first got to meet Matt was Matt was an artist,

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