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

Okay, so from time to time I do what I call lessons learned, where I talk about a set that I led or co-led and explain all the things I learned from designing that set.

Because everything you do, we learn from, it's important to look back we do what we call

retrospectives at wizards where we look at sets we've done so this is my own little personal

retrospective okay so last time i had done one of these i did perixion all will be one

well turns out i also had the very next set which is march of the. So today's podcast will be on the lessons learned

from March of the Machine. Okay first off so a while back we did War of the Spark. And I remember

when it first got pitched the idea was it was a battle between Nicole Bolas and all the Blainswalkers that exist.

And I said that was very large in scale.

And I did a whole podcast on making a war of the spark.

So this time, Merchant Machine is another sort of capstone event set, right?

It's the big finale of a story and a giant thing happens and it's like, you know, the idea

of these things is they're most driven by the story.

And so apparently having every Plainswalker all attack each other

was not a grand enough scale.

So this time I was informed, here's what happens.

The Phraxians invade the multiverse.

They're going to attack basically every world we've ever visited.

And so I'm like, oh, okay, well, if you wanted to make War the Spark seem not as grandiose.

So that was the challenge going into this.

This was the largest scope thing we'd ever done, ever, by a lot.

And so one of the big challenges was trying to wrap your brain around that.

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