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

Okay, so one of my ongoing goals of my podcast is to do a podcast on every single magic expansion.

And I have a lot of podcasts to make, so luckily that keeps me busy. So anyway, today we're up to Conflux.

Conflux with the second set in the Shards of Alara Block.

So Shards of Alara, so it came out in February 6, 2009.

But in order to talk about Shards of Alara Block, I did do a podcast, I think with Devin Lowe

talking about Shards of Alara. But let me go a little history in Shards of Alara Block. I did do a podcast, I think with Devin Lowe talking about Shards

of Alara, but let me go a little history in Shards of Alara to set the theme for

Conflux, because a lot was going on to Conflux. Get set there. Okay, so I became

a head designer for Ravnika, but Bill Rose, who was my boss, had an idea for a block, and he really wanted to do a block.

And what you say to your boss when they really want to do something is, yes, sir.

Anyway, Bill's idea was, so this was our third multicolour block.

Our first multicolour block was invasion, also led by Bill,

which really was kind of play as many colors as you could. The second multicolor was Ravnica

that I led, which was play as few multicolour, a few colors as possible, but two being it was

multi-color. So Bill said, well, we've done two, we've done play four or five.

How about three?

So the idea was, Bill's idea was we would start with three.

We do ally, because we always said ally before enemy back in the day.

But, you know, ally before wedge, or arc before wedge.

And then we would, the second set, Conflux, would lean you toward playing five color.

And then the big dramatic finish was going to be Shards, Lara Reborn, which was going to be

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