I'm playing on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time to have the drive to work.

Okay, so one of my ongoing quests is to talk about every magic expansion in existence.

So I am up to Meriden Besiege, which is today's topic.

So I've talked about scars of Meridian before.

But let me refresh a little bit to set the tone for Meriden Massage.

So the original idea for Scars and Mirridon block was that we were going to begin in new phrexia.

That the first set, the fall set, would be New Forexia.

And then we'd be a new ferrexia for three sets. And in the very end, there'd be the big reveal, dun, dun, da, this is actually mirrored in. So what had happened was in the story, the phrexians had been a big part of magic story. They're the main villain in the Weatherlight Saga. At the end of the

Weatherlight Saga, they are apparently destroyed forever. But they're awesome villains, and since

they can be recreated from a drop of oil, we felt like maybe they're not gone just yet.

So our plan was we wanted to bring them back. And so what we did, Brady Domrith and I were very involved in this, is in the original

Mirrodin story, if you read the novel, the bad guy,

like in the first couple pages in the novel,

deals with some oil that goes on his fingers and sort of evaporates into his

skin. And not much is sad about it.

And basically, the Karn, who at the time was infected,

ends up bringing, not realizing and bringing the ferexion to Mirren in the world that he created.

And so, anyway, it was a slow burn.

Like, we said, like, a little hints up that phrexia was going to, that phrexia

had now started to invade Mirrodin in the first Mirrodin set, but pretty subtle.

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