I'm not pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work, coronavirus edition.

So I've been doing lots of fun interviews, and today continue that trend with Brian Tinsman, and we're going to talk about Rise of the Aldrisi.

Welcome, Brian. Hi, Mark. Hi, everybody. Okay, so let's go back.

So, it's interesting.

Most of the time when I do interviews, I'm the one that was on the design team, and I'm

talking to people who develop it a lot of the time.

But in this particular product, you led the design team, and I, I wasn't on the design team

at all.

I was on the development team, so a little backwards from most of my interviews.

So, okay, so let's go to the very beginning.

Where did the idea do the set come from?

This was kind of a follow-up in Zendikar block, and Zendikar had kind of like this kind of three-act storyline where

initially it was a lush world full of energy and then I in World Wake it was starting to get

crazy and and some turbulence and destruction was beginning to be unleashed.

And then in the third act, it was rise of the Aldrasi.

And it turns out that the whole plane is getting overrun by these giant interdimensional

kaiju-like sized creatures.

I'm sure most people listening to this are familiar with Eldrazi at this point,

but it was all still an idea already at the stage.

So real quickly, just a little background for the audience.

Originally, we were only going to be in Zendikar for two sets, and the third set wasn't going to be

on Zendikar at all, was the original plan. And the creative team said, whoa, whoa, whoa, we don't have

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