I'm not pulling out the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work at home edition.

Okay, we're talking about Infinity and I have a guest today. So Chris Mooney was my right-hand person from the very, very first day of exploratory design to the very last day of like the polish, which is the part after set design.

And so I'm real excited to have Chris here to talk all about lots of individual cards.

Hey, Chris.

Hello.

Excited to be here.

Yes, it was a long, it was a very long journey.

But it was, yeah, it was so much fun working on this set.

And I'm excited to talk about some of the fun behind-the-scenes stories of these cards.

Okay, so the first card we're going to talk about is called Octo Opus.

So let me read the card, and then you will tell me the origin of Octopis.

So three blue-blue enchantment, when Octoopus enters the battlefield, create a 4-4-blue octopus performer creature token named Contortionist,

with, at the beginning of your upkeep, you may fold this token in half.

It becomes 2-2, then 1-1, half, and so on.

Sacrifice Octopis, draw a card, and an additional card for each of contortionists folds.

Okay, where did this card come from, Chris?

Right. So very early on, you know, like right from the start, you sort of gave us the pitch of

what the flavor of the set was going to be. And, you know, we made a list of what we thought

would be fun tropes, you know, from circus, carnival, theme park.

And a contortionist was one that we, you know, one day, I think George Fan and I were sitting

around and we were like contortionists. Like, that seems like a fun one. And in an unspace,

of course, we were trying to think of, you know, what are some silly ways to engage with that?

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