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

Okay. So today is another in my series of 20 years and 20 podcast. And today I'm going to be talking all about 2005.

Okay. So let's get started. Um, okay, January 2nd, January 22nd was the pre-release, and February 4th was the release for betrayers of Kamagawa.

So this was the second set in the Champions of Kamakawa block.

So it's Earth, Wind, and Fire. This was Wind.

It had 165 cards in it, 55 Commons, 55 Own Commons, 55 rairs. The lead designer for the set was wind. It had 165 cards in it, 55 commons, 55 commons, 55 rars.

The lead designer for the set was Mike Elliott.

In fact, the design team was just two people.

It was Mike Elliott and Randy Buehler.

And the lead developer for the set was Henry Stern.

So basically what the set did is it carried over the mechanics from Champs of Kamagawa.

So it had Soul Shift, Beshito, had spliced onto arcane.

It had spearcraft and flip cards and legendary creatures at rare.

But it did introduce a couple new things.

So number one, it introduced ninjas. We knew when we were doing

the Japanese-inspired set that we wanted to hold something back for the first set, and so,

for the first expansion, and so we decided to hold back ninjas. In retrospect, maybe that was

a mistake. I think the fact that we did a Japanese-inspired block,

and between the whole block, we had just a small handful of ninjas,

feels wrong in retrospect.

So the ninjas came with a ninja mechanic called ninjitsu,

which was a mechanic actually I made.

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