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

Coronavirus edition. So I've started doing this thing where I talk with R&D members about sets

that we worked on together. And so today, I've brought in Eric Lauer to talk about original

Innestrade. Hey Eric.

Hello, Mark. How are you doing?

Okay, so this is an interesting set where I led the design of the set

and you led the development of the set.

So I'm going to pick up the story.

I mean, I've told the story of my

part of making Innestrade. So I'm going to pick up the story.

There was a period, we used to have this period in between design and development that we

called Divine, where development started giving feedback. So I'm going to pick up our story

on, okay, I've made this set based on Gothic horror, and you're brought in. So let's start

at Divine. What do you remember from Divine? So my very first game, I actually died before I got a fifth turn.

And so Aaron asked me what I learned.

I said, not much.

I only had four turns and then I died.

But I did get to see double-faced cards in action.

And we were actually playing playing sealed the first time.

So it's kind of rough when you're playing sealed and just dive that fast.

And initially what I was interested about Devine was there were more black cards than any other color, but not by a lot.

But we were playing sealed.

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