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

Okay, so sometimes I like to use my blog to just go in deep on the topics that I get asked a lot about.

And so the topic today is why blocks are not returning. I'm going to talk a little bit about the history of blocks.

Now, I have a whole bunch of podcasts talking about blocks as a structure. So I'm just going to talk to history a little bit. If I want me to get more in the history, I did podcasts on that already. Really, the topic of today is, why did blocks go away? And why are they coming back? So I'm going to talk all about that. In order to do that, let's first, I just need a little bit of history of blocks.

Like I said, I'd go more in depth on another podcast, but I at least need the basics here to explain some stuff.

So first and foremost, blocks started during Mirage.

Mirage, I mean, Ice Age made a set.

The same team that made the Ice Age set, the East Coast Playtefters, then made alliances. When they made alliances, there was no idea in their minds that those were connected. They were not trying to make it connected. We mostly connected them after the fact in development. So, yeah, the pseudo first block, maybe is Ice Age,

but the real block that we actually meant it, where it wasn't sort of done after the fact, was Mirage.

Mirage and Visions had been designed together as a large set called Menagerie. They got broken into two sets.

We then add weather light at the end of it.

But the idea, so where do blocks come from? Why do we do blocks in the first place? So the idea of a block for those that might be newer was there's a period in time where we would have a large set in the

fall, I'm using northern hemisphere seasons here. Then in the winter, we'd have a small set, and in the spring we'd have a small set.

And all three of those sets would take place in the same world.

And usually there was a connective story that took place there.

Early magic, we're talking Mirage.

We were still on Dominaria.

Although the very, the second ever block, which is Tempest, we actually do leave Dominaria.

And we go to Rath, and then we're at Mercadia, and then we're back a little while to Dominaria.

But we do, we do sort of get away for a little bit.

Then we're back in Dominaria for a couple blocks.

And then we start doing, starting with, what would we be the first one?

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