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

I dropped my daughter off a camp. Okay, so today I'm going to talk about the bolus arc, what we called

handlebar internally. Handlebar, I think, because Bullis is the villain and kind of the smart villain that would, you know, I don't know,

handle his handlebar mustache. I think that's why it's called handlebone. Anyway, I want to talk

about the creation of the whole art and how it came about and how we decided what sets

were going to do and sort of how they change over time as we adapted. Okay. So when we started, we knew that we were going to, we had already started the gatewatch.

So we had Magic Origins, we introduced the Gatewatch members, and then we had Battle of

Zendkar and Oath of the Gatewatch. We had Shadows over Innesrod. We had Eldridge Moon.

So we had a chance to sort of get the team

together and then give them their first big sort of adventure. And we, the idea was that then we were

going to put them on a big scale story. And we had decided Doug Byer on creative team, had sort of been piecing the story together.

And his big idea was, we were going to go up against Nicole Bolus. That was going to be our villain.

He had been one of the major villains of Magic over the years. And we decided it was time to finally

have a major Nicole Bullis story. We've had other stuff. And Nicole Ballas was always in the

background, sort of doing things. But in the background sort of doing things,

but we wanted to sort of have him come more to the foreground and play a major role.

And the idea that I think Doug had early on, we didn't know of the details, but Doug knew the basic beats.

And the basic beats was, in Act 1, the heroes think they're going to save the day,

just like they save the day on Zendikar, and they saved the day in Indistrad, and they get their

butt kicked by Bolus. And then it was going to end with a giant war on Ravnika.

So that was kind of Doug's vision of that there was going to go up against Bolas,

Boles was going to defeat them, and it's going to require, you know,

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