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

Okay, so today is another in my series, Magic Evolution. This is part seven, I believe.

So what I'm doing with this series is I started from the beginning of magic and I'm going through magic,

talking about different sets and explaining sort of what they did that

was new for magic.

You know, one of the things I often talk about is design and magic design is about iteration.

That we do something, we try it, we experiment with it, we get feedback, we make tweaks based

on the feedback, and then we try new things.

And in some ways, you can think of magic as just being constantly iterated on. We keep making

magic sets. We learn from them, and we, you know, improve the process. So one of the things

that's interesting is we're constantly evolving and coming up with new things. So as I look back, it's kind of cool to say,

oh, well, what did this set or this block? I'm not at the point where I'm looking at blocks.

What did this block do? So, uh, last time I talked about Champions of Kamagawa block,

which means we're up to Ravnika block, original Ravnika block, Ravnika Guildpack and Dysension.

So this was a pretty influential block.

So a little context to start with.

First off, in December of 2003, I became the head designer of magic.

That happened, I think we were in the middle of betrayers of Kamagawa.

We were the middle Kamagawa block, and Kamagawa block was a train that had left the station.

There wasn't a, I mean, I did some fine tuning on it, but there wasn't a lot I could do structurally to change it.

It was sort of set in an emotion.

So really the first block that I had any control over from, you know, from the beginning, sort of a full vision of was Ravnika. And one of the things that I really wanted to do,

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