So, I was going to keep it a surprise on the off chance I was actually selected as a finalist, but I entered the third Great Designer Search, a contest where the prize for winning was getting to intern for Wizards of the Coast designing Magic cards. Alas, it was not to be, as I apparently didn't score high enough on the multiple choice test. This also means that they will never actually read my essay questions, which I put a lot of thought into and would have been weighted three times more

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If you haven't been paying attention to the Magic: the Gathering community, you may be unaware that there's a bit of a reality show going on at Wizards of the Coast right now, namely the Great Designer Search 3. The grand prize is a six-month internship at WotC... for a given definition of "internship," since it actually pays better than my current job.

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So. As of today, Mark Rosewater has posted a complete answer key to the second part of the Great Designer Search 3, a 75-question multiple choice test. (Part 1 contains the test itself if you want to try your hand at it, along with the answers themselves. Part 2 offers an explanation for the back

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