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

Okay, so today is another in my lessons learned series where I take sets that I led or co-led and I talk about all the things I learned about doing them.

So last time I did one of these, I did Zendikar Rising. So the next set chronologically that I worked on was Strickson.

Call time was Ethan Fleischer, not me.

Okay, so Strickshaven is interesting in that we had a much larger sense of what the set was before we began.

A lot of times when we do a set, like, we have a general sense of the...

Like, when I did I-Core, it was like, it's monsters, or we did...

Theriffs was like, oh, we're doing Greek mythology.

This set had a whole bunch of pieces.

Not that we had figured it out, but we actually started knowing a bunch of things.

So we knew, for example, that it was going to have,

it was going to be a magical school and playing to magical school tropes. We knew that there

were going to be, so we knew it was going to be a faction set, we knew they were going to be enemy

colored, and we knew that insist and sorceries were going to matter. We also knew that MDFCs would play a role.

Originally, this was going to be the set with MDFCs.

We ended up spreading them out.

There's good and bad for that.

I think there's a world in which this is the only set that did then we could make

maybe a bigger splash.

I think spreading out was right, meaning I don't think Strick save...

Tricks haven't enough other stuff going on that I don't think it needed the splash

for just introducing MDFCs.

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