I'm pulling away from the curb because I dropped my son off at school.

We all know what that means.

It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so one of my goals with this podcast is to have a podcast talking about each and every magic expansion.

And I've done a lot of it, but someone in my blog recently pointed out that while I talked about

invasion, I had Bill Rose on, who was the lead designer of invasion, and he and I talked about

it a while ago. But I've not talked about plane shift or apocalypse, which are the two other sets.

So today, I'm going to talk about plane shift, and in a future podcast, I will talk about apocalypse. So today I'm going to talk about plane shift and in a future podcast I will talk

about apocalypse. So today is the plane ship. So in order to explain plane shift, let me do a little bit

of setting up invasion because there's a lot of what invasion one that informs what plane shift

became.

Okay, so, before I was head designer, Bill Rose was head designer.

And invasion was around where he started.

He did a little work before that, but I think the thing of invasion block Block is the first block that he really put his thumbprint as head designer.

And Invasion introduces a brand new concept.

What I prefer to as the third stage of magic design, which is the idea of blocks having themes.

And Bill's idea for his first theme that he wanted to do was multicolor. Multicolor existed ever since the third expansion, Legends. And for a while,

it showed up in dribs and drabs. And then Bill decided to be cool if we sort of didn't do it

for a little while and then blew it out.

It had a whole block about it.

And that's what invasion was.

Now, I think when we began invasion, there was some idea.

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