For over 30 years, Mark Rosewater has been leading design teams for some of Magic: the Gathering’s biggest sets, and continues to do so with his role as lead designer on the upcoming Marvel Super Heroes expansion. However, while he’s been exploring the Magic multiverse, he’s been developing his own game on the side, with the hopes of one day sharing that side game with the world. Today, on the official Magic: the Gathering Secret Lair website, Rosewater has finally unveiled that game, Mood Swings, and players will be able to order it soon.

Mood Swings is a game played with a single 45-card deck, though there will be over 100 cards available for the game at launch. Each card is named after a mood–Patience, Hostility, Cheer, Bashfulness, etc.–and comes with a corresponding power and point value. Each player in the two-to-four-player game will play one mood from their hand per turn, and once all of the powers resolve, the player whose board has the most points wins the round, and first to three rounds wins the whole game.

Rosewater released a blog on the MTG website, as well as a tutorial video on the official Wizards of the Coast YouTube, diving deeper into the game’s rules and some of the cards players will find in their decks. “About 28 years ago, I came up with an idea for a more accessible trading card game called Mood Swings,” Rosewater says in the blog. “The idea behind it is simple. Trading card games are a lot of fun, but Magic, while amazing, can be complicated. Mood Swings is my attempt to make something simpler.”

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