I'm born out the parking lot.

We all know what that means. Or maybe we do. It's time for other drive from work. So this morning, I did a podcast. I thought it was almost perfect. And then I realized after I was done, I messed something up. So I'm fixing on the way home today. So we're going to take two for me, take one for you. Hopefully, you guys didn't hear my other version.

But anyway, guys, today I'm going to talk all about landfall.

I did a talk where I picked the best mechanics of all time,

and in top five was landfall, an excellent mechanic.

So today, we're going to talk about where landfall came from,

how it got designed, and then talk a little bit about why landfall was very influential in magic design.

So that is the topic today.

Okay, so our story begins back in 2003.

My boss, Randy Buellerueller promotes me to head designer.

And as part of being head designer, Randy had a thing he called the five-year plan.

And so right now, nowadays we have what we call the arc planning team.

There's a whole team that figures out what the upcoming sets are. But back then, I was the arc planning team. There's a whole team that figures out what the

upcoming sets are. But back then, I was the arc planning team. So the idea of the five-year plan

was Randy wanted me to pitch my ideas for five years in a row. Ended up being a seven-year plan.

I had a lot of ideas. But anyway, one of my ideas that I pitched was I liked the idea.

At the time, I was looking for sort of like mechanical clusters that we could design around.

And one of the ideas I was very enamored by was the idea of a land cluster, of a set

that's all about land mechanics and I was

very intrigued by this I was very excited to buy it I was mostly alone though

mostly I the other R&D members used to make fun of me I remember Matt Place

used to joke finally a set where land matters but anyway I pitched this idea to Randy.

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