I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means.

It's time for the drive to work.

And I dropped my son off a camp.

Okay. So last we talked, I started telling the story of Ixelon's design.

And I didn't finish because there's lots of the story.

Now, when last I left off, we had just gotten to the point where the set had four factions

and dinosaurs have been added, but as an extra bonus, they weren't in any faction originally.

Okay, but before I get to that story, I realized I forgot an important story from earlier,

something that I didn't even put in my article because I forgot

about it. But this is a good story. So let me mention this. So one of the early things we

messed around with when we were trying to figure out how to do locations and double-faced lands

is we had this idea early on of that you had lands that you would lay claim to and then it would

upgrade to a better version of the land. That's one of the really early versions of the double-faced

lands. And so we like the idea that you made use of your creatures, but at the time, vehicles was in

Kaladesh.

In vehicles, when you crewed something, you had a number and then you crewed that many creatures.

So if it said crew four, it meant you needed to have four creatures.

So we were trying to make it unlike crew. So we tried this thing

where the number wasn't the number of creatures but rather the combined power of the

creatures. And so the idea was you know crew four wouldn't mean four creatures. It

mean a combination of creatures whose power

adds up to four. So we were playing with, and it was playing well, we liked it. But meanwhile,

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