I'm not playing my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work at home edition.

So today I'm going to talk all about the design of ColdSnap.

So I'm going to talk about where it came from. It's got a very interesting design story.

Okay, so we have to go back, and at this time we were working on Ravnikah, I believe.

Now, back then, we go back in the days. We used to make three sets a year. So,

large set, blocks, back in the days of blocks, there was a large set, a small set, a small set

back in the day. And we were definitely starting to dip our toe into the idea of doing a fourth

set. Everyone's rather to be a core set, but we were dipping our toe into having a fourth,

you know, standard legal set.

There wasn't a core set.

So what happened originally was the brand team, at this point, the brand team was separate from the R&D at this point.

Nowadays, it's tabletop magics altogether, but back in the day, this wasn't true.

And so the brand team asked R&D and said to them, do you want to Somerset? And R&D said, you know,

not really. You know, there's nothing jumping to mind.

Yeah.

Yeah, let's not do a Somerset.

And everything was fine.

And they came back, I don't know, six months later.

And they're like, you know, we really would like a Somerset.

And I remember Bill, Bill Rose was frustrated.

He's like, well, six months ago, you know, like, if you really wanted to do one,

how about six months ago when we said, no, you go, well, we really want you to do it.

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