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

Okay, today I'm starting another design series.

Last time I talked about Indistrade cards, so I'm doing the Indistrade block.

So, it means today I'm talking all about the design of Dark Ascension.

Okay, so the first thing to know is Dark Ascension was, I believe, my 15th design lead,

and I think it was the first time that I led a winter set. I have led a lot of fall sets. I've led a number of

spring sets. I've led some supplemental things that happened during the summer. But interestingly,

I think up until Dark Ascension, I'd never done a second small set. Now, I've been very involved

with second small sets, but as far as being the sole design lead, I wasn't until Dark second small set. Now, I've been very involved with second small sets,

but as far as being the sole design lead,

it wasn't until Dark Ascension, this is the first time I had done it.

So what had happened, how did this happen,

was the upcoming large set.

Normally I do the fall sets,

but the upcoming large set was returned to Ravenica.

Ken Nagel had never done a large

set, and I felt like

if ever there was a set that would be a good

training large set, it was

returned to Ravenica because a lot

of the key elements had been figured out.

And so, I felt like

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