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

Okay, so today is I think part three in the series I've been doing called Magic Evolution,

where I go through all the magic sets and talk about what, sort of what design evolution got added by each set.

So last we talked, I went up through Urs's destiny, which means sort of what design evolutions got added by each set.

So last we talked, I went up through Erz's destiny,

which means we start today with Mercadian masks.

And I'll be honest, Mercadian Mask block is not the easiest block to talk about in this regard.

So the funniest thing about Mercadian Mask is probably the biggest lesson Mercadian masks from the design standpoint was something we didn't do rather than something we did.

So when we made Mercantian Masked masks, it actually had some mechanics in it.

It had both the Rebel Mechanic and the Merc mercenary mechanic. We had a bunch of pitch cards.

There was things in it. There were mechanics in it. But we didn't label any of them. None of them were

named. And a weird thing happened, which was people were upset that we didn't have any mechanics.

It's something I hadn't anticipated until it happened, which was, you know, like clearly there were mechanics in the set.

There were new things in the set.

But when we didn't label them, we didn't name them, I was really interested.

The reaction of the audience was, why didn't you make, I was really interested the reaction of the audience was

why didn't you make new things? And it really was an eye-opening thing for us to realize

like how important labeling what we were doing was, that how much of, I mean, magic always has

new cards and the cards do things, and that it was really, like,

for the designers, when you're sort of, you know, working under the hood, use my analogy here,

like, you're really aware of all the differences.

Like, oh, clearly there's these 18 cards that perform in a similar function, and, you know,

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