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

Okay, so today is another in my series on the history of magic design, where I'm going through from the very beginning of magic to modern day,

to talk about the ways in which magic has changed in how we design.

So I'm sort of going step by set.

And I'm not talking about the designs necessarily of the individual sets,

but more of a larger structure of what we were doing.

Last I left, we had talked Odyssey Block,

which means we are up to OnSlot Block.

So Onslaught Block, so as I said, we're in the period of time where most of the designs

were done by Bill Rose, Mike Elliott, or myself.

Starting with invasion, Bill became head designer, and Bill instituted the idea of themes that blocks had themes.

But Bill really didn't, he sort of said, okay, you know, he would pick somebody to do the

block and then they would make the theme. Bill, Bill, early on, didn't really dictate what

the theme was. Bill had done invasion himself and he said it it was going to be multicolour, but Bill led that.

I then did Odyssey, and I decided to do graveyard.

Bill was on board of that.

So, on-slaught was Mike Elliott's turn, except Mike Elliott really wasn't as invested in this new idea of a block theme. And so when he first started working on

he was very old school. He had two mechanics and designed around the two mechanics. But like I said,

so when he handed off the file to Bill, Bill sort of came to me and said,

okay, this doesn't really have a theme.

And he asked for my help to sort of give it a theme.

Like it was missing a theme.

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