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

Coronavirus edition. Okay, I'm using my time at home to talk with people all about magic design.

So today I have Eric Lauer, and we're going to talk about cons of Turk here.

Hey, Eric.

Hi, Mark. How are you?

Okay, so this is a set where I led the design.

I handed off to you who did the development.

This was back when we had design development.

And I've talked a bit about making this set of my side.

So I want to really pick up from where you got involved in this at, which would have been divine.

Back when we did design and development, there's like a two-month window where development

would give comments, but design would still adapt to the comments from development. So let's,

what is your first memory upon seeing cons of Turk here? My first memory is that it was a three

color set, and the last fall set before I joined the development of fall sets was Shards of

Alar, which was also a three-colored set.

And I had some opinions, which the development team didn't share.

And so to me, this was an opportunity to see, well, how would things turn out if we kind of went in a somewhat different direction, where I thought,

shards had the problem that very strong players were playing four and five color decks.

So the, so they weakened the mana.

And my view was, well, you should find the cards that are leading

people to play four and five color decks, the strong players, and change those.

So it was like my example was resounding thunder.

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