I'm pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for a drive to work.

Okay, one of my ongoing quests of this podcast is to record a podcast about every expansion of magic.

And there's a lot of them. And I made a good headway. I think today I'm up to Aether Revolt.

So, Kaladash was the large set in this block.

It's a block, one large set, one small set.

I have talked about Kaladish a couple times.

I've not talked about Aether Revolt.

So I'm going to set the scene a little bit.

I got to talk about Kaladash a little bit.

Kaladash, the plane now known as Avedishkar. But let's talk a little bit. Kaladesh, the plane now known as Aveshkar.

But let's talk a little bit about the making of the original set,

and then we'll get into Aether Revolt.

So the idea, the original, I think the jumping off point for this block

was the idea of us doing a steampunk set.

We talked for a while that we wanted to do something.

And then we wanted to do kind of our stamp on it.

I think Jeremy Jarvis, who was the art director of a time,

liked to call it Etherpunk.

And the idea was our take on it was to try to go a little bit more optimistic than often.

Often steampunk can be a little less optimistic.

And we like the idea of something very bright and shiny.

We had done some darker worlds and we're like, okay, how much something bright and shiny

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