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

Okay. So today, I'm going to talk about a design I did, but not of a set. Today, I'm going to talk about Vanguard.

Okay, some of you out there goes, oh, Vanguard, I love Vanguard, and others are going, what is Vanguard?

I never heard of that.

So let me explain what it is, and then I'll talk about the design.

So Vanguard was, we had a thing called Arena, way back when,

which was a play system when you played through the stores. I mean,

we do similar stuff now. It just has a different name. But anyway, we were trying to come up

with something that you could sort of add on to magic, some way to play magic that was, you know,

something we could give out that you would then apply to magic and have some fun.

And we came up with this idea of what we called Vanguard.

What Vanguard were was they represented characters.

And the characters, they were cards that granted you an ability,

and then they gave you a specific starting hand size and specific starting life total.

So they instead of starting with seven card hand size and specific starting life total. So instead of starting with seven-card hand total and a 20 life,

we could shift it.

And so that would allow us to give you abilities.

And if abilities were really strong,

maybe you start with less cards or less life.

But if the ability was a little weaker,

maybe you start with more cards or more life.

And the idea was we sort of try to mix it up.

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