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

Okay, so last time I started talking about the design of Torment, the black set.

So it was the second set in the Odyssey block. It had a weighted design toward black.

And last time I talked about the design team and walked with the major mechanics.

So today, I'm going to start talking card by card.

I feel that one of the things that helps me sort of talk about the set is I just kind of

give individual stories of cards.

I kind of hit a lot of the different things we were doing.

And so I looked through the set and picked a whole bunch of cards that sort of both either our

famous standouts from the set that I could talk about or just did something very typical

so I could talk about how we designed the set.

Okay.

Since I go in alphabetical order, the first card is going to be Ambassador Laquatus.

So he was a 1-U-U-1-3 that for three mana you could mill three.

Mill means you take the cards from the top of the library and put them directly into the graveyard.

Okay, so the interesting thing about him was he was a Murpholk.

Well, why is that interesting?

Because there were no Murpholk! So when I first made Odyssey, I came up with the idea that we would replace most of the traditional creature types with new ones just to shake things up a bit. Instead of goblins, we had dwarves. Instead of elves, we had centaurs. And, you know, I was just trying to change things up. So instead of more folk, we had centaurs. You know, I was just trying to change things up.

So instead of Moerfolk, we had cephalids.

Yeah, I know.

It doesn't sound like...

In retrospect, with 2020 vision,

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