I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means.

It's time with her drive to work.

Okay, so I have been doing, I have a sort of an ongoing series where I'm trying to talk about every magic set ever made.

And recently I've talked about Mercadian masks and Nemesis.

So obviously I need to finish up with the last set in the Mercadian mask block, prophecy.

So let me first...

So I'm often asked, what is the worst magic set of all time, design-wise?

And normally the answer I give is Homelands.

But Homelands, like was done by an outside group that had no previous experience.

So while Homelands is my pick for the worst, prophecy is the worst one that like we did internally.

Like, of all the sets we did internally, I think prophecy is our worst.

And so today, I'm going to tell the story of how prophecy came to be

and why I consider prophecy to be the worst internally designed magic set.

Okay, so the story of prophecy requires some setup.

I need to explain sort of what was going on in R&D at the time.

Okay, so prophecy comes out, I think, in early 2000.

So, right before invasion.

Okay, so here's what's going on.

Richard Garfield events magic, and he has a bunch of his play tefters start to make

some of the early sets.

Ice Age, Mirage, you know, and those same groups did Fallen Empires, did antiquities,

you know, did alliances, did a lot of the early stuff, visions and such.

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