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

Okay. So, today I'm going to talk about another of my series of 20 Years and 20 Podcast.

And today's topic is the year 2001. So for those that have never heard of this series before,

what I'm doing is

dedicating one podcast to each year of Magic's Life and talking about all the things

that happened during that year. So a little history lesson wrapped up in a single podcast,

at least a year's worth in a single podcast. So today is the year 2001. Now, last time I did

this series, I did 2000, obviously.

And that was a banner year for John Finkel.

John Finkel won U.S. Nationals, won the world title, won an invitational, won a team championship.

Had a pretty good year.

As we will see, it's possible to have a better year than John Finkel in 2000,

and that's going to be Kaibuda in 2001.

We'll get to that today.

Also, we are in the middle of the invasion block.

So, in fact, the very first thing that happens happened on January 27th,

which is the pre-release for Plain Shift.

So, Plain Shift was 143 cards, 55 commons, 44 Uncomons, 44 rars.

It had a swirling portal as its expansion symbol.

Its pre-release name was Hong Kong.

So Invasion had been Beijing.

Plane Shift was Hong Kong. So invasion had been Beijing. Plan ship was Hong Kong,

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