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

Okay, so today, so one of the things that we do in making magic sets is every block is set in a different world.

And so half the time we've decided we're going to visit brand new worlds and half the time

we're going to revisit worlds that we've previously visited.

So today it's going to talk about the difference between new worlds and returning worlds and

the challenges that it makes for design.

So first off, let me explain that when Magic began,

so for the first, I don't know, 10 or so years of Magic's life,

it didn't leave the plane, it mostly stayed on the same plane,

it's a play called Dominaria, obviously.

And I'm not sure why. I mean, in retrospect,

I, on some level, we treated the sets much like they were different worlds, just for some

reason we kept putting them on the same world. Like ice world? Yeah, that's the same world.

Jungle world? Yeah, that's the same world. We kept sort of putting in the same place.

And eventually, we're like, you know what? You know what makes magic magic is you are a planes walker.

You can walk between the planes. Perhaps we should go visit different planes rather than making them all,

quote unquote, set on the same place. And so, starting, I mean, Magic actually visited other planes all the way back as early as Arabian Nights,

which was his first expansion.

So it's not like it hasn't, it didn't visit planes in the early years.

But it, the interesting thing is the first like 10 years or so, it only left the plane a couple times.

Arabian Nights were set on a separate plane.

Homeland was set on a separate plane.

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