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

So using my home time to talk with people of Magic's past and present about sets we made.

So today I have Aaron Forsyth, and we're going to talk about the making of Magic 2010.

Hey, Aaron.

Hey there.

Okay, so this is your baby.

So let's go at the very beginning.

How did the idea to make Magic 2010 come about?

Well, there's the kind of printed version of that story,

but I guess I can tell a little bit more of the behind-the-scenes part of it.

So Elaine Chase was the brand manager of Magic back in those days.

And let's see.

So the ninth edition had come out a few years before.

And the cool, and this is back when core sets, the endth edition

corsets were all reprints.

And when ninth edition came out, it came out in Russia for the first time.

We released a corset or a magic set, I think, in Russian for the very first time.

And so that printing of ninth edition was blackboardered,

whereas all of the rest of ninth edition in every other language

was the normal white-bordered core set that we've been doing for years.

And the Russian version of the set sold incredibly well,

you know, obviously in relation to how much we expect Russian product to sell.

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