I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

And it meant I took my son to camp again. Okay, so, last time I started a podcast based on an article I had done talking about the inspiration of all the different blocks. So there have been 20 blocks in magic, 10 of which I oversaw as head designer, 10 of which I didn't.

So yesterday, or sorry, last podcast, I talked about the 10 that I had overseen.

So concept arc here all the way back to Rabnika, original Rabnika.

So today, I'm going to talk about the 10 before that.

Now, I was around for all of these,

but, well, I was around for all these, except for Ice Age, I was only there at the end part of it.

But anyway, I was around for all these other blocks. So I'm going to talk about sort of what I

believe the inspiration was. These are a little more, some of these, I was very involved in.

Some of these is more secondhand knowledge.

But anyway, we're going to start with Champions of Kamagawa.

We're going to way back to Ice Age and talk about the other 10 blocks.

Okay, so the important they remember, by the way, is as of Champions of Kamagawa,

in the middle of Champions of Kamagawa, I took over as Head Designer.

But we're going back in time. So before me, the head designer, now, back in the day, the actual way the role work has changed a little bit. I now focused just on design.

Before me, the role was sort of a combined role where one person oversaw both design and

development. Now we have a head designer and we have a head developer. So, um, but so before me,

the head designer slash developer, uh, was Bill Rose, our current VP of R&D. So Bill Rose was before me.

So the next batch of blocks I'm talking about Bill Rose oversaw these blocks. These are Bill Rose's reign as head designer.

Okay, so let's start with Champions of Kamagawa.

So Bill had a vision for Champions of Kamagawa,

and his vision was,

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