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

Okay, so today is another in my series, 20 Years and 20 podcasts. So today I'm up to the year 2009.

Wow, we're getting close to present day. Okay, so one of the stats I talk about a lot is how the last year, as

the recording of this podcast, the last year was our sixth year in a row to be the best year

magic has ever had. Well, the beginning of that six year streak was 2009. So we talk a lot about

sort of the magic's new, I don't know, new surge or whatever you want to call it.

It started in 2009.

That's really the first year.

I mean, you see, Inklings up in 2008, Shards of Alara, definitely that block sort of started us.

But it was, it's really 2009 where, like, we came on strong.

So anyway, today I'm going to go all through 2009.

So we start January 31st, was the pre-release.

February 6th was the release for Conflux.

So Conflux nicknamed paper, because the Shards of Alara block was rock paper and scissors.

So Conflux was the second set.

Shards of the Lara had come out the year before, and it had, the flavor of the world was

there were five different, the worlds had been broken into five shards.

And in each shard, two of the colors were missing.

So the color, that was, the center color that had its two allies had kind of its

utopia. What would an all-white world be? What would an all-blue world, or white and its

allies and blue in its allies? And so each world kind of gravitated toward the type of world

that it wanted. And so you got a chance to really see the colors and see how they interact

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