I'm pulling out the parking lot. We all know what that means. It's another drive from work.

Okay, well, this morning, I started doing a podcast, and I realized it was larger than one drive.

So I decided that I would finish it on the way home. So I'm talking about the rise and fall of the blocks.

So if you haven't heard the first part, go listen to the first part.

I'm just going to jump in assuming you've listened to the first part.

Okay, when we left off our story, we'd gotten up to Lorwyn Block.

So as I was explaining last time, at the end of Ravenica Block, we were asked to make an extra

summer set. We made a set called Cold Snap we were asked to make an extra summer set.

We made a set called Cold Snap that was flavored as the missing ice age set.

But it didn't quite go the way we wanted.

And I said to Bill, I go, the next time you want to do a fourth set, you know, the brand team wants a fourth set.

Talk to me.

I'll integrate it. I'll make it part of, I'll make the brand team wants a fourth set. Talk to me. I'll integrate it.

I'll make it part of, I'll make it feel way more integrated than I cold snap did.

So right before Lorwin started, Bill came to me and said, okay, we want to do a fourth set.

So the thing that's, so this is the first time we had a block that wasn't a large, small, small block.

By definition, it was four sets.

And so the idea that I came up with was, what if we broke this into two mini blocks?

So what if there was large, small, large, small.

Now, Magic had never done anything like this.

There had never been a large set on anything but the fall.

But it really, like, it was really a cool way, I thought, to make sense and give a reason why there were four sets.

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