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

Okay, so it's the third part of me looking at Dark Ascension, the design of Dark Ascension.

And so when last we left, I think I got up through F. So today we're starting with G.

And the first card is Gather the Townsfolk, which is a sorcery that costs one in a white, so two mana.

You make two one-one human creature tokens, but it has the fateful hour ability.

So the fateful hour ability says if you are at five or less life, instead of getting two tokens, you get five tokens.

So the design of the fateful Hour stuff, probably the design name, something like desperation

or something.

The idea was, in times of great desperation, you know, when you're closest to loss, when

you really got to buckle down that you're able to sort of do things to help you.

And the design of Fateful Hour, the idea was we want to give effects that would help you

when you're on the verge of losing, not lose.

And so token making is a good example.

Like, okay, I'm losing.

Well, getting a bunch of tokens might help me.

So on the Fateful Hour, it's like, well,

one W get two tokens, that's fine.

I mean, that's something we do all the time.

And the idea is, okay, and in special circumstances,

you can up it.

So, you know, early in the game,

getting two tokens for two men is fair.

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