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

Okay, so today is all about the vision design of Lorwyn Eclipsed.

So let me first do a little setting up of the scene, how we got there. Many years ago,

Bill Rose informed me.

We had previously done during Ravnik a block, we had done a fourth block.

We had made a decision not to tie it into the block and made what was called Cold Snap.

I was never super happy with that.

So I said to Bill, the next time you want to do a four-step block, talk to me, I'll integrate it. I'll make it part of the whole block. So Bill came to me, he said, okay, it's time. And so what I came up with was instead of doing like large, small, small, small, like, I said, we need to shake it up a little bit. I don't think we can, we have enough trouble with three sets in a block.

So what if instead of doing one normal block, we did two mini blocks, each of which was a

large set and then a small set.

And then the idea was it'd be set in the same world, but the world would go through some,

some radical change

such that the two mini-blacks were connected but different. And that's when we came up with the

idea of what if the world had some element of, some natural occurrence that fundamentally

changed what the world was. And the low-hanging fruit we liked was light and dark. Lorwin, the idea,

was, had been tagged to be a typel set. And then we ended up coming up with the idea of making

Shadowmore a color matter set with a high hybrid amount. So anyway, we did this. We had their

four sets. There was Lorwyn the large set,

morning tied to small set, Shadamore the big set, even tied to small set. And we brought to the world

Lorwin and Shadowmore. And it didn't go as well as we had hoped. I think Lorwyn, for its time, is the worst selling large set ever in magic.

It didn't get right.

I think the only world that got rated lower in market research was Kamagawa.

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