Hello and welcome to another episode of Time to Drive.

So I'm leaving my garage.

So that means it's time to start another show.

This week I thought I would talk about Zendikar.

Originally I was thinking maybe I would go in chronological order and then it dawned me it's more fun to hop around.

So today I'm going to talk

about one of my favorite sets, although I have a lot of favorite sets. But, uh, so Zendikar,

where do I start? So I've talked about this a little bit about how, um, I had this idea

for a plot, for a block, uh, basically what I wanted to do was I wanted to make use of some mechanics that I thought, well, let me back up a little bit.

So every, I don't know, five, six, seven years, I'm asked to make what's called a five-year plan.

And the idea of a five-year plan is I'm supposed to map out where we're going and what we're doing. Now, note that the first time I made a six-year plan and the seven-time I made a seven-year plan,

so I've actually never made a five-year plan, but the idea is the same.

And so what I'm trying to do is explain to whoever the director of R&D is, currently Aaron, formerly Randy,

what my vision is, where am I going?

Because once upon a time, if we go back to

like Odyssey, I had this awesome idea of, oh, why do we change things up and not use the normal

creature types and just make things a little different to give, you know, a little breathing

space and try out some creature types that don't normally get a chance to see the light.

And then next set was Onslaught, but we hadn't planned out that Onslaught was a tribal slot.

So by the time we got to the set all about tribes, you looked at the previous set, and like, oh, none of the tribes you want are there.

And that's when we realized, okay, we've got to plan ahead.

We've got to think about where we're going and avoid that sort of problem where the set before isn't probably setting up the set after it.

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