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 talk about a topic that I got asked about quite a bit.

Design space.

So one of the things people are always very curious is we need to figure out when we make a mechanic,

how big is the mechanic?

How many cards can you make

out of it? And we refer to that as design space. How much design space is there? And it's

important when you're designing to understand how big the design space is, just so you know that

you're using it correctly and it's going in the right spot. And anyway, I bring up the term

design space occasionally on my articles and podcasts

and stuff and people always say, well, how do you know? How do you know how much space a mechanic

has? How do you determine design space? Well, that is the topic of today's podcast.

Okay, so let me start by explaining a couple things. First off, I want to explain that there's a range of size we're talking about.

I'm going to use three terms, which is small, medium, and large, but really there's a spectrum.

At one end of the spectrum would be, there's one card you can make with it.

You know, if the mechanic's so tiny that it could be on one card,

probably wouldn't be a mechanic.

But realistically, you know, there's a cycle or something.

It's probably the smallest we'd ever make a named mechanic would be a cycle.

And the other end of the spectrum is you could use this for end of time.

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