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

Okay, so recently, or somewhat recently, I do this ahead, so it's always hard to predict.

I had an article right now. It's the end of the three-set block.

And then when I was thinking back, I realized that I actually, since I've been head designer,

have oversaw the block plan for 10 three-set blocks.

And I thought, you know what?

I talk about individual sets all the time.

I don't talk block plans all that much.

So today, and probably next time, we'll be all about block plans.

And I'm going to walk through all the three-set block plans I did as a head designer and talk about sort of how the block plan itself came together. Not the individual sets,

but how we formed the block. So we will start with the very first set that I led, very first

block that I oversaw as head designer. I happened to also lead the first set. Ravnika,

city of guilds.

Okay, so one of the big innovations, when I talk about sort of,

changes that happened over time, is when I took over as head designer, I was very big on the idea

that we needed to do more planning for our blocks,

that there had to be more, you know, we had to be careful how we dole things out.

And before that, we had a few blocks that kind of backed into a block plan,

but the way we used to do it is we'd do the first set,

and then we were done, we'd do the second set,

and we were done, we'd do the third set.

And sometimes we'd leave something, but it wasn't really thought out.

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