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

Okay, so today's podcast is actually kind of a follow-up to a podcast I did a couple years ago called

Designing Commons. And so today I'm going to talk about designing uncommonds. So I'm going to talk

all about, I'm getting the nitty-gritty warning. There's some math coming up. I'm going to talk all about, I'm getting in the nitty-gritty warning. There's some math coming up.

I'm going to talk all about sort of how we make on commons and what role on commons play in magic.

Okay, so when I talked about commons, a lot of the role of commons was really defining your set, giving, you know, definition to your set,

and very much sort of being the ground, the cement to make limited work.

So Uncommon lives in an interesting space in which it shares responsibility with Commons to work in limited because it shows up in enough

rarity that you need to care of limited, but it also has some constructed roles.

And so I'm going to talk about sort of the uncommon.

It's this weird rarity that kind of lives between other rarities.

And in fact, if you ask me which rarity tends to have the most problems with it.

I mean, commons is the hardest to design.

I've said that before.

But Uncomons gets overstuffed to the easiest.

In fact, we used to have 60 Uncomins in a large set, and we eventually moved to 80 because we were getting so jam-packed.

Like one of the things that happens is, for example, with New World Order, we changed what could be a common.

And we have a much tighter set of rules about complexity of common.

And as such, there are things that no longer work at common that we had to move up.

Meanwhile, you know, we're always trying to sort of fight for space and rare, and a lot of times

rares have to move down.

So uncommon both gets commons moving up and rare is moving down.

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