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

coronavirus edition. Okay, so today, or today I will start telling, it's going to be more than one

podcast, the story of Strickshaven, or Strick's Haven design. How did Strickson come to be?

So there's a lot of cool parts of the story, and I don't know how many podcasts it will take,

but I will take as many as it takes to tell my story.

Okay, so the original origin of the story

probably goes back to original Innestrade.

So we were trying to figure out how to make a werewolf's work.

And Tom Lippily, who was on the team, there was this double-sided mechanic that

Doolmaster, another trading card game, one we make for Japan, had used.

And so we knew we could print it.

And he suggested that.

And it seemed a little out of the box at first, but we tried it, and it was really fun.

And it didn't take along.

So the way, obviously, the double-face cards originally worked were transforming double-face cards.

You play side A, and you can do something to turn it to side B, maybe even turn it back to side A.

But you always play side A.

But it didn't take very long once we came up with, you know, transforming double face cards to make modal double face cards.

What if you did them like split cards where you could cast side A or cast side B?

And then whatever you cast, that's the side that was.

That it was.

And split cards can't do permanence.

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