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

Okay. Previously, I had done a series on the Zendikar cards and on the World Wake set.

So I'm going to finish off the Zendikar block today by starting talking about the design of Rise of the Eldrazi.

Dun, dun, da.

Okay, so, where do we begin?

I guess we begin, so those that remember, when I originally pitched Zendikar,

it was as this experimental block messing with land mechanics.

And anyway, there were many who were dubious that this idea would work.

So meanwhile, Bill Rose, the VP of R&D, so two years earlier, actually, we had done,

Bill had tasked me with coming up the way to do four blocks because two years before that, we had done Rabnika block,

and then we'd added Coltsnap on as a fourth set.

And it didn't really go over that well.

And I said to Bill, I go, next time we want to do four sets in a year,

I could make it make sense if you just let me ahead of time plan,

because Colesnab had not been planned ahead of time. And so Bill said me, okay, we're going to do four sets, make it work.

And then I came up with the idea of two mini blocks, the large, small Lorwyn block and a large

small Shadamore block.

And the two mini blocks went together and they were a mega block together.

It was a world that changed.

And anyway, the innovation really of that block, though, was the idea of Shadowmore being a

spring set that was large. And it turns out, large sets sell better than the small sets, that

you know, there's more cars and people were excited and liked it. And Bill had done the math

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