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

Okay, so today the theme is slivers. So I'm going to talk about, it's a creature type unique to magic.

It's very popular. I'm going to talk about where they came from and sort of how they've evolved the course of magic.

So we're talking today, the history of the slivers.

Okay, so in order to talk about their origin, we have to go back to 19, well,

1998 is when Tempest came out, but we actually were working on that earlier than that.

So for those who remember the story, I was hired as a developer, but I really wanted to be a designer.

So I had been talking with Richard Garfield.

I discovered that he had not designed a magic set since Arabian Nights, and he was interested in working on one.

So I went to the Powers That Be, a guy named Joel Mick, and I said, hey, Richard would like to work on a set.

I'd love to leave a set.

He'd work with me. And Joel said, okay, Richard would like to work on a set. I'd love to leave a set. He'd work with me.

And Joel said, okay, I could do that.

And I was allowed to pick the rest of my team.

So I chose Charlie Catino and a guy named Mike Elliott.

So Mike and I had both been hired as developers.

We both wanted to be designers.

We both felt we had a designer in us.

And so I put Mike on the Tempest team. So one of the things that

happened is Mike had designed a set before he came to Wizards called, I think it was called Astralways.

And part of his employment was they bought his set. So when I first started working on Tempest, I said to my team,

okay, give me all your ideas.

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