I'm pulling out of my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so this is another of my podcast and my ongoing quest to talk about every magic expansion.

So I'm going to today talk about Born of the Gods, which was the second set in the Theros block.

So first, let me do a little bit of explanation on how we got to the Theros block.

I have done podcasts on Theros, so you can go listen to those specifically.

But let me give a little larger context.

So the original idea for this block actually was not ancient Greece, or inspired by ancient Greece. It was,

in fact, a world, the original idea I pitched

was I wanted to do a prehistoric

set, and then I wanted to jump

thousands of years ahead

of time to go to, like, a

medieval-ish type set, and then jump

another couple thousand years ahead of time and be

the most futuristic thing magic has done. The idea was it was a world where we see it at three

completely different points in its evolution. That was the idea. And pretty close, like I pitched

it, we sort of got rough sign off on it. And then very close to us starting it,

Brady Dombermuth, who was the head of the creative team at the time, said, because look, we

can't do this. This is just three worlds. We are not equipped to do three worlds. And so he said,

how about, and he pitched the idea of us doing an Egyptian mythology set, not Egyptian, a Greek mythology

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