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

Okay, so today is the fourth in my series called Magic Evolutions. So the point of this series is

I'm going through magic from beginning to modern day and talking about each set in order and saying what new thing

did it add, what was the design technology that got added by the set? And talking sort of about,

this is kind of like a, from the perspective of a designer, kind of the history of design by looking

at magic. So I'm going through each set,

and I think I'm up to Odyssey. So today, I'm going to talk Odyssey, probably on the slot.

We'll see what the time I have, but, so we'll begin with Odyssey. So Odyssey, for those that

don't know, came out, what wouldn't Odyssey come out? Odyssey came out in 2001, I believe.

Okay, so Odyssey, the main mechanics Odyssey.

Odyssey had a graveyard theme, and the two big mechanics in it were flashback and threshold.

So let's talk a little bit about those

because each of those actually were pretty

revolutionary for their day.

So we'll start with flashback.

So flashback, the idea of flashback were

they were spells that you could cast twice.

Now, we had done buyback in the Tempest a few years before, a number of years

before, and buyback allows you to repeatedly cast the same spell by paying extra mana

when you cast it to be able to put it back in your hand. This worked a little bit differently.

Flashback, the idea of flashback was that it had a use that you can not only cast it

from your hand, but you always cast it from the graveyard.

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