I'm plugging up my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

Okay. So last I talked to you, I begun to be getting my series on the design of Dragons of Tarkeir.

Well, I today start talking about the card. So the idea is, I told you a bunch of stuff about the set, about the design.

One of the things I like to do is spend a bunch of podcasts talking about individual cards,

and then through the individual cards sort of get at some other card design stories.

Okay, so we start with A, and we start with the Acid Spewer Dragon,

which costs six mana, five in a black.

It is a three three dragon.

It's flying.

It is death touch.

And it has megamorph for five black black.

Plus, when it is turned face up, you put a plus one plus one counter on each other dragon you control.

So this was an uncommon cycle.

So one of the tricky parts about doing a dragon set is making sure that you have enough dragons.

And so the trick was, I mean, we knew we needed to make uncommon dragons, and so we made a conscious choice

to make a cycle of uncommon dragons, a monocolor cycle in addition to a multicolored cycle. So we made

two cycles that uncommon. This monocolor, one of the things we wanted is we wanted it to be something

which felt dragon-y and encouraged dragons, but was pretty simple and straightforward.

So the idea of this cycle was, I think they're all three-three, which is about the smallest.

One of the things we tried to figure out is how, I mean, we're not worried about how big a dragon

can be. Dragons can get pretty big, but how small could a dragon be? That was one of our issues, which is what is big enough to feel like a dragon? Because of flavor reasons, there

aren't any baby dragons. There's no, all the dragons are born out of tempest, fully formed. So there's

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