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

Okay. So today, I'm going to do another lessons learned. Normally I space these out, but I'm talking all about Innestrade and Dark Extension and very soon Avicen restored.

And so I figured I would do both these lessons to learn near each other.

So the last time, I talked all about Inestrade.

And Inestrade, like I said, was one of...

I consider right now, as of all the release sets, my best set.

So, Inestrade was me talking about set that went really well.

Dark Ascension, well, it didn't go poorly.

It had a lot more problems along the way.

And so this is me talking about a set that was a little more problematic.

I'm happy with how it ended up, but it was a rough ride getting there.

So the interesting question is, in Ishrad, I had, you know, very little to start with.

I knew I was doing Gothic horror and doing the horror genre, but, like, I had a blank piece of paper.

Dark Ascension, I knew what I was doing.

I was following up something that had done with Innestrade.

I already knew what I was up to, yet it was a lot harder.

So let's explore what was going on and what did I learn from it.

Okay.

First thing you have to understand is, because this plays into it, which is very important.

So many, many years ago, at this point, I know, eight years ago, I was told by my then-boss

from Andy Bueller that I could hire an intern.

But hiring a design intern is tough.

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