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

And I drop my kids off at school today. Okay, so today we're talking about the design of Theros Beyond Death.

Dun, dun, da, da. Okay, so, um, so we, okay, okay, let me set up a little bit on original Theros and then I'll get into Theroth Beyond Death.

So we knew for a long time that we wanted to do a mythological theme set, a world.

The one thing that actually held us back for a while was that so much of

magic, so much of early magic what Richard had built, had been built a lot on, you

know, Greek mythology had been a big inspiration source that so much of the

stuff that's in Greek mythology was already naturally in magic. And the worry was,

oh, there's not enough unique things.

But eventually we realized is just by focusing on those things

and not having other things, kind of the absence of the non-Greek things

and the raising the volume of the Greek mythological things,

really itself would have a feel to it.

And so we eventually came around to doing it.

Original Theros was a last-minute change.

We were going to do...

My idea was a world...

This is back in the block days, where there was a prehistoric world.

We flashed forward thousands of years, and now it's like, you know, Dark Ages world and flashed forward as far as we could.

And then it was like whatever the most modern we'd be willing to do, which is probably, you know, like 1700s or something.

But the idea was it was a world in which you would see giant leaps in time.

And we didn't, ironically, we did not have the resources of the creative team to make three different worlds.

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