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

Okay, so today is another episode in my mega series, 20 Years and 20 Podcasts.

So this is based on a little bit I did at World last year where I did 20 minutes of magic,

I'm sorry, 20 years of magic in 20 minutes.

But I decided that a minute per year was not enough.

And so I've decided to dedicate one podcast to each year of Magic's life to sort of talk about

what happened that year, to sort of a little history, a little fill you in on what happened.

So I've already done 1993, 94, 95, and 96.

Today is 1997.

Dun-da-da-da.

Okay, let's just get started.

Not much happened in January that year, so we're going to start in February.

Well, I guess technically in January was the pre-release for Visions. And then in February 3rd was the release of Visions.

So Visions was the small set to follow Mirage.

It was actually designed the same time as Mirage.

So Mirage, known as Murnazuri in design, was one of the first sets ever designed. Richard knew that magic

would probably need sets, turned to his playtasters, and had them make sets. One of them made

Ice Age, one group made Mirage, one guy made spectral chaos that would... Invasion would

use elements of that later on. Anyway, so Visions came out, and Visions is well known for, it was a powerful set.

It introduced what we call Enter the Battlefield creatures at the time comes in play,

and it had Uctabia Rangang and Manaw and Necratol. I had a few others, but those are the

three that sort of drew attention. And really put on the map the idea of, you know, spells

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