I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so I'm dropping my son off at camp, and I'm going to talk about magic evolution. So this is,

I think it's part six of a magic evolution. So this is a series I've been doing where I'm going through all of magic from the very beginning,

talking about each set and explaining kind of designers, what technology was created,

what was the innovations that came from each set.

So I'm sort of looking at, it's kind of magic history with a designer, a magic designer's eye.

So today we are going to talk about the block champions of Kamagawa.

So it's interesting.

Last time I talked about Mirrodin Block, and Mirren Block had a lot of things that this

went on to become Evergreen.

Like, it was a very successful block.

I mean, developmentally has some issues,

but champion Kamagawa block, I think, has a kind of a different flavor, which is trying

interesting things and not quite doing them correctly. So the theme I think you're going to find

through Champs of Kamagawa is there's the start of interesting ideas and then just not quite executed as well as it later

would get executed.

And let's start with champions of Kamagawa itself.

So probably the most, the best example of this would be flip cards.

So when I say flip cards, a lot of people think I'm talking about double face cards.

But no, there was a mechanic called flip cards before double face cards ever existed.

But in some ways, kind of a precursor to double face cards.

So the way flip cards work is it was a one-sided card.

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