Okay, I'm pulling out of the parking lot. You all know what that means. Well, A, it means that I've dropped my daughter off at spring break camp. But me, it means it's time for drive to work. Okay, so today I'm going to start talking about the design of World Wake. So last time I talked design in my podcast, I talked about Zendekar and a lot of the, I did a lot of

cards and stories.

Today, I'm continuing the Zendikar block by talking about World Wake.

Okay, so, to start with, my previous Who's Who podcast, I explained that I'm not going to spend

a lot of time on people anymore.

That's going to be for the Who's Who's Podcast. But I do want to talk about who designed the set. So the set was led by Ken Nagel,

and on the team was Kelly Diggs, who used to work on, who used to be editor-in-chief of the website,

and then was an editor, and currently, beside being editor, also does some creative stuff.

Mark Lobis, known from the first great designer search, is the producer of Magic and a designer.

Matt Place was a developer, was a development representative for the set and myself.

So Ken Nagel, this was his first lead, first time being a lead designer.

So what happened was Ken came in second in the first great designer search, losing out to

Alexis Jansen, although they both did well enough that they each got an internship, and

Ken managed to turn his internship into a full-time job.

Ken then went on to be on a whole bunch of different teams.

Finally, we decided it was time for his own team.

And our policy is basically metaphorically, we throw you in the pool.

We got a lifeguard standing by, which would have been me on the team, and see what you

can do.

Ken did a great job.

So the idea of the second set to explain real clearly is this was a small

winter second set. Usually a set like that is there to be a continuation of a large set and do

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