{"id":95105,"date":"2025-09-22T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/why-creative-teams-need-the-safety-to-fail-according-to-a-senior-director-for-magic-the-gathering\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:20:26","slug":"why-creative-teams-need-the-safety-to-fail-according-to-a-senior-director-for-magic-the-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/why-creative-teams-need-the-safety-to-fail-according-to-a-senior-director-for-magic-the-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"Why creative teams need the safety to fail [according to a senior director for Magic: The Gathering]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.fiverr.com\/visit\/?bta=1052423&nci=17043\" Target=\"_Top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/wp-content\/themes\/breek\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/fiverr.ck-cdn.com\/tn\/serve\/?cid=40081059\"  width=\"601\" height=\"201\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"hs_cos_wrapper_post_body\">\n<p>No matter horrible factor you\u2019ve pivoted a marketing campaign round \u2014 a delayed launch, perhaps buyer backlash \u2014 I wager it didn\u2019t contain a <strong>multi-hundred-thousand greenback housebreaking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s grasp <em>can <\/em>put that on her bingo card. However, extra importantly, her bingo card additionally consists of working with an inventory of manufacturers too lengthy to say in a single breath: Particular Olympics, Coca-Cola, Nike, Google, Coors Mild, Les Schwab, and the legendary Seattle radio station KEXP are only a few.<\/p>\n<p><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\" id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-bcbe2652-03f9-49fe-b517-acedc47b6f27\"><span class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-bcbe2652-03f9-49fe-b517-acedc47b6f27\" id=\"hs-cta-bcbe2652-03f9-49fe-b517-acedc47b6f27\"><!--[if lte IE 8]>\n\n<div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div>\n\n<![endif]--><a href=\"https:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/53\/bcbe2652-03f9-49fe-b517-acedc47b6f27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hs-cta-img\" id=\"hs-cta-img-bcbe2652-03f9-49fe-b517-acedc47b6f27\" style=\"border-width:0px;margin: 0 auto; display: block; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px\" height=\"58\" width=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/wp-content\/themes\/breek\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/53\/bcbe2652-03f9-49fe-b517-acedc47b6f27.png\" alt=\"Click Here to Subscribe to Masters in Marketing\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><\/p>\n<p>At the moment, she heads up the artistic crew behind the advertising and marketing artwork for the favored buying and selling card recreation <em>Magic: The Gathering<\/em>. She sat down for one in all my favourite interviews but, not least as a result of I discovered that her grandpa was a Chicago bootlegger whose home was raided by Eliot Ness of The Untouchables. But additionally for the nice recommendation she shares about dealing with adversity and dealing with creatives.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/wp-content\/themes\/breek\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp?width=650&amp;height=650&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Alicia Mickes, a smiling woman with medium length hair\" style=\"height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 650px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; display: block;\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp?width=325&amp;height=325&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp 325w, https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp?width=650&amp;height=650&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp 650w, https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp?width=975&amp;height=975&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp 975w, https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp?width=1300&amp;height=1300&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp 1300w, https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp?width=1625&amp;height=1625&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp 1625w, https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp?width=1950&amp;height=1950&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-blog.webp 1950w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"\/><\/h2>\n<h2>Alicia Mickes<\/h2>\n<h3>Senior Inventive Director, Wizards of the Coast (publishing firm of <a href=\"https:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magic: The Gathering<\/a>)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Enjoyable reality: <\/strong>Alicia loves to gather <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/amcreative\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">random certifications<\/a>. She\u2019s obtained certs for tattooing, private coaching, TRX, cake adorning, ceramic restoration, and even bloodborne pathogens coaching.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Declare to fame: <\/strong>Should you\u2019ve seen the MOD Pizza brand, you\u2019ve seen one thing Mickes has designed!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr\/>\n<h2>Lesson 1: Take possession, however don\u2019t take it personally.<\/h2>\n<p>Mere weeks earlier than Hasbro was set to launch a model of <em>Magic: The Gathering<\/em> primarily based on Wild West outlaws, the worst occurred: <strong>Photographs of unreleased merchandise hit the web following two high-profile thefts. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA bunch of playing cards obtained leaked as a result of folks began promoting product earlier than it hit shops,\u201d Mickes remembers. \u201cIt actually blew our deliberate advertising and marketing marketing campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And whereas I couldn\u2019t verify if the thieves had old-timey waxed mustachios, Mickes relays the story with an ear-to-ear smile and a contact of mischief in her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Which isn\u2019t to say she doesn\u2019t take the state of affairs severely, however you get a way that that smile is on the coronary heart of who she is as a pacesetter, a marketer, and a human being.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe might have gotten actually mad about it. [Instead,] we tried to play into it and have enjoyable with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For example her level, she shared <a href=\"https:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/news\/announcements\/the-modern-horizons-3-leaks-nulldrifters-and-you\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a blog penned by their communications director<\/a> that tackled the same leak head-on with inside jokes and even a couple of sneak peeks of their very own.<\/p>\n<p>We hung out buying and selling warfare tales. Product launches blown by keen followers zooming in on early advertising and marketing supplies. Unfavourable suggestions strewn throughout the web.<\/p>\n<p>The takeaway is that this: <strong>On an extended sufficient timeline, all of us will face a advertising and marketing disaster<\/strong>. And whether or not it\u2019s a branding misstep, a social media meltdown, or <em>precise grand larceny<\/em>, Mickes says <strong>it is essential to take possession with out taking it personally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Generally meaning \u201caccepting that you just did one thing improper, or that you just did one thing folks don\u2019t love, and being okay with it. That\u2019s simply human. <strong>I need all my crew members to know they&#8217;ve a secure place to create, and discover, and take large dangers. <\/strong>And large dangers fail typically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s what it&#8217;s. And so we pivot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/wp-content\/themes\/breek\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp?width=650&amp;height=433&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"&quot;I want all my team members to know they have a safe place to create, and explore, and take big risks. And big risks fail sometimes. That's just human.&quot;\" style=\"height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 650px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; display: block;\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp?width=325&amp;height=217&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp 325w, https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp?width=650&amp;height=433&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp 650w, https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp?width=975&amp;height=650&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp 975w, https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp?width=1300&amp;height=866&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp 1300w, https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp?width=1625&amp;height=1083&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp 1625w, https:\/\/53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net\/hub\/53\/hubfs\/alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp?width=1950&amp;height=1299&amp;name=alicia-mickes-mim-risks.webp 1950w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"\/><\/p>\n<h2>Lesson 2: Collaboration begins with tradition.<\/h2>\n<p>Mickes is a giant believer {that a} high-performing artistic crew <em>requires <\/em>a supportive tradition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith all of the testing on the earth, it doesn\u2019t imply issues are going to land the best way you need,\u201d she explains. \u201cIt\u2019s essential to have a gaggle of individuals to speak your concepts out with, to brainstorm with, and to bounce concepts off of. And know that it is probably not the concept will get picked, however it might assist contribute to the general completed product.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However that type of dynamic doesn\u2019t occur accidentally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>I make it some extent to create a tradition of psychological security, the place everybody feels comfy being themselves and speaking about their concepts.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, the subject of culture-crafting might fill the subsequent 12 months\u2019s value of newsletters, so I requested Mickes for her primary, gotta-have, most impactful piece of recommendation for working with creatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>One of many quickest methods to construct belief is to assist your crew members get wins.\u201d <\/strong>Which may seem like exploring time-management methods with a crew member who wrestles with work-life steadiness. Or educating communication strategies to somebody who&#8217;s afraid of interpersonal comms. (Or who, like my co-worker who shall stay unnamed, however who edited this, is afraid of telephones.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we have check-in conferences the place you share the belongings you\u2019re battling or share your work to speak out. It takes time, and isn\u2019t essentially a part of the artistic course of, nevertheless it aids the artistic course of in the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Lesson 3: Enjoyable just isn&#8217;t the other of labor.<\/h2>\n<p>While you\u2019re continuously centered on A\/B testing, engagement charges, and driving ROI, it\u2019s simple to overlook that advertising and marketing is, at coronary heart, artistic work. And artistic work ought to be enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re one of many loudest teams at work. We all the time get in bother, as a result of we\u2019re over within the nook yelling and hooting and having a great time,\u201d she laughs. \u201cSome of us suppose we\u2019re not working, and I\u2019m like, <em>no, that\u2019s us attending to the solutions!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreatives which might be having enjoyable and really feel relaxed and secure are going to make higher work. It\u2019s not a contest. Nobody\u2019s making an attempt to win something. You\u2019re in there, collectively, making an attempt to make one of the best factor doable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a easy components. Intelligent minds + enjoyable + security = Good advertising and marketing. When one thing resonates along with your crew, there\u2019s a larger likelihood that it\u2019s going to resonate along with your viewers, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when the entire group says, \u2018Hell yeah! That\u2019s it!\u2019 that\u2019s when you recognize.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2>Lingering Questions<\/h2>\n<h3>THIS WEEK&#8217;S QUESTION<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What&#8217;s a artistic sizzling take that can make a marketer second guess how they work with creatives?<\/span> \u2014Brandon Smithwrick, Founder, Content material to Commas<\/p>\n<h3>THIS WEEK&#8217;S ANSWER<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Mickes says<\/strong>: In my expertise, the enterprise facet (i.e., product strategists, gross sales and advertising and marketing managers) herald artistic too late&#8230; typically treating them because the shiny reward wrap across the product technique \u2014 however in actuality, the artistic <em>is <\/em>the product technique.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Should you contain us solely on the finish, you\u2019re not getting design, you\u2019re simply getting ornament. <\/strong>Each time you hand us a baked plan and ask us to \u201cmake it pop,\u201d you\u2019ve already lower the legs out from below what might have been a extra highly effective advertising and marketing marketing campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let creatives lead earlier! <\/strong>I all the time encourage working in teams: Have early holistic marketing campaign improvement conversations with key stakeholders from media, technique, product, and artistic. <strong>The way forward for advertising and marketing is all about experiences the place artistic execution is indistinguishable from model technique. <\/strong>Should you nonetheless consider artistic as simply \u201cmaking issues look good,\u201d you\u2019re by no means going to create an genuine expertise on your shopper.<\/p>\n<h4>NEXT WEEK&#8217;S QUESTION<\/h4>\n<p>Mickes asks: <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">As advertising and marketing shifts from communication and storytelling to creating genuine cultural experiences, how are you or your organization rethinking the function of artistic?<!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\" id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-e1f0958d-1b15-418e-b4db-45ee531f71af\"><span class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-e1f0958d-1b15-418e-b4db-45ee531f71af\" id=\"hs-cta-e1f0958d-1b15-418e-b4db-45ee531f71af\"><!--[if lte IE 8]>\n\n<div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div>\n\n<![endif]--><a href=\"https:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/53\/e1f0958d-1b15-418e-b4db-45ee531f71af\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hs-cta-img\" id=\"hs-cta-img-e1f0958d-1b15-418e-b4db-45ee531f71af\" style=\"border-width:0px;margin: 0 auto; display: block; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px\" height=\"613\" width=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/wp-content\/themes\/breek\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/53\/e1f0958d-1b15-418e-b4db-45ee531f71af.png\" alt=\"Click Here to Subscribe to Masters in Marketing\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<iframe data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.fiverr.com\/gig_widgets?id=U2FsdGVkX18x7XQvttUTrv1oEqmGNGTgvvCUiUoJ\/AP4z\/UyMz8lXGOLpu15jIMxBbTR0gmD5uBoFvhC4KWeALQRp3h\/X\/AwcVD0K8Wj9H\/ZzYKzcCNHosB9oS4SCJJFWiN85P9ICAc4OgCoE\/wHKIY7CDkf2\/DQ1vqGvk4smVe5cRDEmrLPCWi4FC8p40VUhSmWQ5udCm0zoJtorgWv3vbDQw0kKYkwn39ozAnQXDe+YvWMxkLFWA+O3TFwkJvdkIK+\/AUSnRssPKt5WHY0FhNOxnSPcLslEL4G4\/RfP95ve99U+kRnDy3X+KtzdQLY+u935ghON\/o3UE4IMv9oN6JX9RnxzL\/LRcOgnHigxStSGPKsZYtnz8RWNVT\/rOLAibqiWJadC5MYHRbekF3eg6FOGrQGkXYbsn0+a5aovnlLCbLwIqY9fcS17UX8J235iQ6cdmHNbrPeS84CMm34RA==&affiliate_id=1052423&strip_google_tagmanager=true\" loading=\"lazy\" data-with-title=\"true\" class=\"fiverr_nga_frame\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"350\" width=\"100%\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-mode=\"random_gigs\" onload=\" var frame = this; var script = document.createElement('script'); script.addEventListener('load', function() { window.FW_SDK.register(frame); }); script.setAttribute('src', 'https:\/\/www.fiverr.com\/gig_widgets\/sdk'); document.body.appendChild(script); \" ><\/iframe>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hubspot.com\/marketing\/why-creative-teams-need-the-safety-to-fail\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter horrible factor you\u2019ve pivoted a marketing campaign round \u2014 a delayed launch, perhaps buyer backlash \u2014 I wager it didn\u2019t contain a multi-hundred-thousand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-universe"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why creative teams need the safety to fail [according to a senior director for Magic: The Gathering] - mailinvest.blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Technology is forever changing, and there are always new pieces of technology to replace obsolete ones. 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