Okay, I'm pulling out of my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so today, I'm going to do something I haven't done before.

I'm going to talk about a set that I didn't design, didn't develop, wasn't even in the building when it happened.

But I... So, I often get asked, what is the worst magic set of all time?

And my go-to answer is Homelands.

And so today, I want to give a little more depth to Homelands, because I think that there's a

lot more going on in the story and it's a little

unfair. I feel bad. I mean, I do believe it's the worst design set, but there's a lot of factors

that go into that and it's not, there's a much bigger picture. So today I want to, I want to

give the bigger picture. I want you to understand what was going on and sign how Homeland's got

made because it's, I think that, uh, I think my two-second answer does a far injustice to the set.

And so today, I want to talk a little bit about Homeland and how Homeland came to be.

Now, in order to understand the story, because today is kind of a story day, although I guess

most podcaster story days, so let me talk about sort of where magic was at. And I've touched

upon this in previous podcast, but I'm going to go to a little more detail today.

Okay, so I've talked about how Richard came to pitch a game, Roborelli,

and the president of the company, Peter Atkinson, said to him,

we can't make that.

Good game, we can't make that.

But what I'm looking for is a small portable game using cards

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