<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6089523c-2d91-45b3-b762-eaeb2041dcae/3D550CDF-1EB0-472D-8F4E-2F8912480EB9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/49" href="http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/49" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wizards.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/49"><H4>Decisions, Decisions, Part I</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/49"><H5 class="byline">Mark Rosewater<BR />Monday, 27 July 2009</H5></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/49"><P> <IMG border="0" align="left" alt="The letter I!" src="http://www.wizards.com/magic/images/dropcap_I.jpg" />'ve decided to spend today's column (as well as the one two weeks from now—next week is a theme week) talking about a design principle that I've been thinking a lot about recently. Then to explain how principles like this affect every level of design from micro to macro, I'm going to explore how it impacts <B>Magic</B> design at five different levels: the card level, the mechanics level, the set level, the block level, and the meta-rules level. If that doesn't sound like your cup of tea, run away!</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3D550CDF-1EB0-472D-8F4E-2F8912480EB9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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