Okay, pulling out of the garage.

It means it's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so one of the comments I have gotten is that a lot of my stories are from long ago.

And so I thought today I would tell a story from not so long ago.

Um, today I'm going to tell the story of the design of Innestrade.

So, where shall we begin?

The funny thing about Inistrad is the idea actually goes way back.

So I think what happened was Odyssey, one of the sets I did, one of the old, do a podcast on it,

and I did not do the creative for Odyssey.

I just, back then, I would do mechanical stuff, creative and slap whatever they want on it.

There wasn't a lot of connection between them.

And Brady Dombermouth, who at the time wasn't in charge, or wasn't even doing creative. He wasn't on

the creative team, really bemoaned the fact that Odyssey really wanted, you know, it was a graveyard

set, like wanted to be all about, you know, horror kind of things. And he said that he really

felt like we missed the opportunity,

that he thought that Odyssey wanted to be like a Gothic horror set.

And I had this idea back in my head that I thought it would be very cool.

I liked the idea of doing horror the genre, And so it kind of all came together.

Like, Brady had this idea for this Gothic horror world.

And I had this idea for a world that was all about, you know, the horror genre.

And anyway, it coalesced many years ago.

And so I would, from time to time, pitch this and say, what do you think of this?

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