I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so I am going to do a three-part special where I'm going to talk about the three different sets in the original Mirrodin block.

And so I'm going to today talk all about the making of Mirrodin, and then I will do a future podcast where I talk about the making of Dark Steel, and then I'll do one talking about the making of Fifth Dawn.

Okay, so let's start with the making of Miriden.

Okay, so we go back to, the set came out October 2nd, 2003, which means that we were working

on this.

We used to work ahead, I mean, we always have worked ahead, but a little less ahead than

right now.

So we probably were working ahead about a month, maybe, not a month, a year, a year to year

and a half.

Now we work closer to two to three years ahead of time.

But anyway,

so it was like 2002, 2001, 2002. And we were making, or we were about to make it brand new set. So invasion had happened, and invasion had been the first sort of themed block in which it was about

multicol. And then we had Odyssey, and that was about the graveyard, and we had Onslaught, and that was about

tribal creature types.

But anyway, I had an idea for something I really wanted to do.

My first favorite magic set at all time had been antiquities.

An antiquities that had been an artifact theme set.

And I really wanted to do an artifact theme block.

So I went to Bill.

Bill Rose was the head designer at the time.

And I said, Bill, you know, I think we should do, you know, we had done multicolored and creature

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