I'm not pulling my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for their drive to work at home edition.

Okay, so one of the series I do from time to time is I do a year of magic series where I go

through every year in magic and I talk about what happened that year.

Last time I did one, it was 2017.

So today I'm going to talk all about 2018.

Okay, so we start January 13th of 2018.

Rivals of Igselaam comes out.

So it's 196 cards, five basic lands, 70 commons, 60 Uncomins, 48 rairs, 13 mythic rairs.

Codename of Eggs, it was Ham and Eggs, X- of eggs, with ham and eggs, excellent, was ham.

It's designed developed by, or led by Ben Hayes.

So the brand new mechanic in the set was called Ascend.

And the idea of Ascend is, if you had 10 or more permanence, you permanently gain the city's blessing.

And then there are cards that got upgraded if you had the city's blessing.

It had returning mechanics, so it had transforming double-faced cars.

All of them had lands on the back, like Ixelon.

It had enrage that was tied with the dinosaurs.

It had explore.

It had raid that was mostly tied to the pirates.

And it also, the returning mechanical theme was typo, dinosaurs and murfolk and pirates and vampires.

Those creature types all mattered.

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