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

Okay, so this is a continuation of my series talking about the history of magic design,

focusing on sort of how we design and how that changed over time.

Last time we left off, we had finished talking about time spiral block, which makes us up to Lorwynn block.

Okay, so in a previous podcast, I talked about how we did cold snap as like a last minute thing.

And I said to Bill, look, next time we want to do four blocks in a single magic year,

let me know.

I'll make it organic.

Coltsinap felt very non-organic.

I can make it organic.

So Bill came to me before Laura and said, okay, we're doing four sets.

So the idea I came up with was what if we have a world that goes

to some radical change and that we have two mini blocks, that each block is one large and one small

rather than large, small, small. So you have two mini blocks, but the two mini blocks are reflections of the same world,

meaning all four sets are on the same world, but some fundamental shift happens, which is why the

mechanics are all different. And then another, sort of tied into that was the idea that each of the

themes of the set would be something that the parallel set could interact with.

It wouldn't be the theme of that.

Each mini block would have its own theme, but the themes interconnect.

Now, we had already tagged Lorwyn to be a Typle set.

We had done Typle and Onslot.

It had gone really well.

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