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

Okay. So today is another in my series, Lessons Learned.

So what Lessons Learned is, is where I talk about a set that I led the design for, and then talk about what did I learn?

What were the lessons? What were the takeaways from that?

So I've done every set I've, every set I've taught, I've led so far up to, today is Battle

for Zendikar. And let's just say Battle for Zendikar has lots of opportunity for lessons.

In retrospect, I feel like I made a lot of mistakes on Battle for Zendakar.

So today will be chock full of lessons because I...

Anyway, let's go back to the very first.

The interesting thing about Battle for Zendikar is, I believe I made a mistake at the

earliest, earliest point, which led me astray.

So let's talk about the very first mistake I made.

Okay, so what happened was we went to Zendakar.

The original Zendakar started out because I had an idea for a set that revolved around land

as a mechanical space.

And to match up to that, the creative team ended up making an adventure world.

And so the combination of the land mechanics and adventure world really popular.

Original Zendikar was very, very popular.

But then we wanted to have a large set, a small set.

And then in the spring, we wanted to have another large set.

But the original plan was we weren't even going to stay on Zendikar.

We were going to go to a different world.

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