We are pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work at home edition.

Well, today we're going to talk all about the world building of Bloomberg and I have Neil Laplott Johnson, who was one of the people in charge of it, to talk all about it.

Hey, everybody. This is Neil LaPlane Johnson. I was a world building lead during the set portion of Bloomberg.

And who did that, who did the vision? Who did the early part of it?

That was Emily Tang. You might know her from hits like Neon Kamigawa in upcoming Dusk Morn.

Okay, so let's, I mean, obviously Bloomberg has a very cool world building.

So let's start from the very beginning, which is you learn we're doing, you know, sort of animal world.

There's no humans and all the animals have, you know, personalities and there's a lot of sort of animal resonance.

So where do you start from?

When you hear about we're doing this, what's the first thing you guys did?

I think the first thing you had to do when you're doing animal world is figure out what

animals you're doing.

And that is a combination of what animals are probably the cutest and then what animals

from magic's past or what animals

do we know that people really want to see. So this is stuff like squirrels and birds. You know,

they emerge super early in the development. And then other ones like raccoons, we kind of reacted to

the response to the S&C's raccoons and how people liked them and thought they

were cute and we added them. So it's, it's kind of a mix. So first thing you do is say, what are the 10

animals that we're going to do? And at the start, it was like 15 animals. We were like very ambitious.

Every monocolor had an animal. Every type or, you know, every color pair has animals. Yeah, that was super early.

That was during exploratory, but yes.

We didn't start with 15 originally.

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