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

Okay. So today is another in my 20 years, 20 lessons, or sorry, 20 lessons, 20 podcast series.

So this is based on a speech I gave at the GDC talking about 20 lessons I learned in my 20 years making magic.

So up to number nine.

So today's lesson is allow your players to have a sense of ownership.

Okay, so I always start by giving an example.

So my example here is talk about formats.

So in magic, one of the cool things is I talk about this a lot, that in some ways we are making tools

for a game, pieces of a game, and we have a rule system and stuff, but people really

have a lot of flexibility.

And one of the places they have flexibility isn't how they play, in the format they play.

That there's a lot of different ways to play magic.

Now some of the ways to play magic is something we have done.

For example, Standard is something that we created as a means to let you play not all the cards in magic,

but the more recent cards of magic.

So a standard is the last 18 months worth of cards.

We also created booster draft, which is a means by which you can, you know, open up the cards and pick the ones you choose and play them.

We have Modern, which is a format that's a little older than, it's a little bit older than standard, where you can play.

It's everything from mirroden forward, I believe.

So there's different formats that we make, what we call vintage and legacy.

These are different formats that along the way we've kind of crafted.

But there's a lot of formats that you can play that wizards we didn't make.

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