Okay, I'm pulling away from the parking spot of my daughter's high school.

You know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so today is another of my series, 20 years and 20 podcasts.

So I've gotten up to 2008.

Getting closer and closer.

Okay, so the series, for those that have never heard it,

I'm going through each year of magic

and explaining everything that happened in that year

in a little more detail.

Okay, so we're going to start.

January 19th is the pre-release.

February 1st is the release for Morning Tide.

So Morning Tide was a small set that followed up Lorwyn.

So this year, 2008, we had tried something brand new. Normally, we had done a large set in the

winter, like October, and then in January, February, we did a small set, and then in April, May, we did a small set.

But this year, we did something different.

So what happened was Bill Rose had wanted to do every other year at this point, we were doing a core set,

and we'd come to the decision that we wanted to have some set, a fourth set on the, every other

year that there wasn't a core set. And the previous two years earlier had been cold snapped. It

didn't quite go well. So I said to Bill, I said, Bill, next time you want to have a fourth set,

talk to me, I'll make it work. I'll make it an ingrained part of what's going on, not an afterthought,

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