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

Okay, so today is Design Story Day. Today I'm going to talk about the design of Scars of Mirren.

So, there's many stories to tell.

Let me first start by talking about the design team.

So the design team, this is going to seem like a long list.

I'll explain the second why the list is so long.

So I let it let it.

It had Mark Gottlieb, Alexis Janssen, Eric Lauer, Matt Place, Mark Lobis, and Nate Heiss.

Now, most of those names should be familiar.

Mark Gottlieb currently is the design manager, and he was formerly the rules manager.

And before that, actually, he was an editor for Magic in the very beginning.

Mark and I have a long relationship.

It's funny because when he was the rules manager, one of the running jokes is that the head designer and the rules manager are mortal enemies.

Because it's the job of the head designer to do things we've never done before.

It's the job of the rules manager to make everything work just like we've always done it before.

So definitely it's the kind of thing like door to nothing, for example. I really wanted to destroy a target player. That was the effect. And he's like, no, no, we haven't, you know, it's

target player loses the game. And I'm like, well, that's, yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand that's how

we write it, but it'd be much more exciting if it was a destroy target player and like kind of the it's that conflict that we always had of he's trying to

figure out how to how to take things and worth them as we've always done and i'm always trying

to find ways to make things seem exciting and different and so i want to try things a little

differently we've done before but anyway regardless of the fact uh that we we had the little

ongoing joke of uh we actually get along pretty well.

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