I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's not another drive to work.

Okay, so last time we met, I was talking about the design of Dominaria, but I didn't finish

because there's much to the story. Okay, so last we, I was talking, we talked about how the theme

of history that we were trying, that one of the big challenges of Dominaria was it took

place in so many different sets and so many different themes and we wanted to have one unified

sort of feel to the world. So we came up the idea that it was a world of history, a world

where the present is defined by its past. And the idea is that you see all these remnants of their past,

but that there is a vibrant renewal as it sort of is growing and coming out of the path.

We like the idea of an optimistic world that despite all the many tragedies of the world

that always came out, it always survived,

it always kept on going.

So one of the things that we were definitely interested in was obviously figuring out how to play

into the elements of history, and we were interested in sort of tapping into the sense

of vibrant renewal.

So one of the things, and last time I talked about how we came up with the first version

of Historic, which was an ability word that said whenever you cast an artifact or a,

whenever you cast an artifact or a legendary thing that you generate an ability. It's kind of like

consolation is for enchantments. Whenever you play one of these things, it triggers and something

happens. Um, okay. Meanwhile, another thing that I wanted was I knew we wanted something old and

something new. What I meant by that is we tend to have a returning mechanic normally.

That's something we tend to do in sets.

But going back to Dominaria, like we need to have a Dominarian mechanic.

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