I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive-to-work

coronavirus edition. Okay, guys, so last time I was talking about the history of the design of Ikoria.

So this time, I'm going to continue on. Okay, so last time I talked about mutate and keyword counters,

both which were in very, very early in the design.

So next, I want to talk about an element that was also in very early in the design, which

was wedge.

So when we were planning the world, one of the things that happened very early was we realized

that there was an opportunity.

One of the interesting thing about third sets is they had the least amount of time before they rotate. And so it

allows you to sort of play with themes that are usually either about to rotate or, I mean,

you can sometimes work ahead, but in this case, we're talking

looking backwards. So we knew that we had the Gilles of Ravnika a year, Gills of Ravnika, Ravnika

Allegiance, and War the Spark, all of which had gold elements into it. And so what we realized

was we had the manna and we had to set up we could do some three-color stuff and we ended up

deciding to do wedge. So, wedge was something. So anyway, very early on, we decided that we wanted

to have a wedge component. Now, one of the things that from the very get-go that we were about was,

this was monster world that had a little bit of a wedge theme and not wedge world that

had a monster theme. And what I mean by that is when you do a three-color centric world,

concertark here, Shards of Alara being previous examples, that's more of a faction thing, right?

That's more where you're taking each one of the three-color

combinations and giving them a color identity, often giving them a mechanic, and really sort

of building the set around that definition. If you look at concertarchere, for example,

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