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 last time I was talking about the making of Strickshaven.

And so I will continue talking about Strickson.

Okay, so last time I talked about the making of the colleges, but I talked about sort of their

flavor. I didn't talk about the mechanics. So let me start by talking about the mechanics.

So one of the things that was really important was we didn't want them to be the Ravenica guilds.

So, for example, red-white shouldn't be the agrodeck.

Black-white shouldn't be a bleeder deck.

We had to think about what they were.

The trickiest one, by the way, the trickiest one was red-blue, because the problem was

the whole set was about Spells Matter, blue was the spells matter guild so we'll

get there we'll get there um okay so let's first start with um red white so we were interested in

red white not being the out the the the the the the the wieny rush color right so we said well what

if we went in the opposite direction?

What if we made it a slow controlling color?

And the idea that we were very enamored with was since we had made it, the history college,

well, what if the graveyard was important?

What if we can make the graveyard matter?

The other thing that we were very interested in is thematically using spirits,

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