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

drive to work. So today is another part in my history of design series. So last

we talked, what did we last we talked? Last we talked about Zendikar and we are moving into scars of Mirrodin.

Okay, so Miriden was the first sort of new world or, you know, non-dominarian world that we decided to return to.

So the origin of this is Brady Dommermouth and I were huge fans of the Phrexians.

And so we made original Meredin.

We planted the seeds for the return of the Frexians.

For those that don't remember, in the invasion, in the weather-like

saga, which ends in invasion, Erzo wipes out all the Frexians. The entire Frexian threat is gone,

is purged from the multiverse. But they were too good a villain to keep down. So we created a story,

and the idea is Karn, when he lost his spark, got infected by some Frexian oil.

When he ends up making Mirrodin, he unwittingly brings it there.

In the book on Miriden, we see the main bad guy, like in the first few pages, find this oil

and it goes

into his skin, and then we don't talk about it again, right? It's like very subtle. But the idea

was, the original idea for this block was that it was going to be new phrexia, and we were going

to spend a whole block in new phrexia, only at the end i'm inspired by like the end of

planet of the apes i don't want to spoil a movie that came out in the 60s but uh in planet of the apes

uh you find that there's an after not played by charleston he crashes on an alien planet filled with

where apes are the supreme form and humans are mere like, you know, slaves of the apes.

But he finds out of the end that he hasn't changed planets, but he's gone through time.

He's on Earth!

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