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

And it's Valentine's Day when I recorded this, so I had to get some sweets from my sweets.

Anyway, today is another in my lessons learn podcast, where I talk about a set that I led or co-led and talk about the things that I learned from it.

So I decided I'm going to do a combined podcast on Guilds of Ravenica and on Ravenica

Allegiance. It had one shared vision team, so even though it ended up being two sets,

kind of I worked on it all at once, so it didn't really seem to make a lot of sense

to have two different podcasts about it. So I thought I would just combine it into one.

So first off, let me talk a little bit about the first thing I learned about this was we were

doing something a little bigger at the time, which was we had this three-year

story arc, the bolus arc that we had planned, where it started in Kaladesh and then it

was going to end in War of the Spark.

And so we knew that for the finale of the story, we wanted this giant plainswalker war.

And so the question was where to put it.

And we knew what we wanted it, we wanted to be someplace the audience knew and loved.

Because part of having a giant war is you want there to be jeopardy.

And so obviously the characters were in jeopardy and we wanted a world to to be jeopardy. And so obviously the characters

were in jeopardy and we wanted a world to be in jeopardy. So we wanted a world the players

cared about. It just made it, you know, the big finale being someplace the audience already knew

just gave it a little extra something. So we looked at a different worlds and decided that

the clear choice should be Ravnika. Ravnika is a very, very popular world.

And it just made a lot of sense.

You know, there's a lot of storylines that weave through there.

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