I'm pulling out of the parking lot.

We all know what that means.

It's time to another drive to work.

I'm dropping my son off at camp again.

Okay, so today is another in my series, Magic Evolution,

where I go through magic sets and I talk about what did this set introduce to magic?

Sort of talking about design technology and design evolution. So today,

I'm going to talk about Myriden Block, original Mirrodin Block. There's a lot there. A lot to unpack,

if they say. So let's start. So Miriden had three sets in it. Miriden, Dark Steel, and FutureSight.

I'm not FutureSight, sorry, Fifth On. Yeah, remember the sets correctly. Sorodin, Dark Steel, and FutureSight. I'm not FutureSight, sorry, FIFT on.

Yeah, remember the sets correctly.

So, Miriden, Dark Steel, Fifth On.

So let's start with Mirren.

So the interesting thing, by the way, is each of these sets introduced something to the game

that became evergreen in the game.

Okay, so first off, in Mirren, so let's start with the thing that became evergreen.

Equipment.

So the idea was, back in the day, artifacts kind of served lots of different roles, and early magic,

we did make things that were sort of flavored as equipment.

Swords or flying carpet or things in which you had to kind of equate them to a creature, and then there was sort of a one-to-one relationship with a creature.

And sometimes even if the creature died, the artifact would be destroyed, or, you know, there was a lot of sort of

one-to-one connectiveness, because the idea of artifacts that your creatures use is pretty flavorful.

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