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

Okay, today I'm going to talk about the history of the two-block model. So, as far as you guys are concerned, relatively recently, we changed over to a new system where instead of having three sets in a block,

we have two sets.

You know, for a long, long time, for many, many years, we had a large set in the fall,

and then a small set in the winter, and a small set in the spring.

Every once in a while, we would change to a large set in the spring.

But, starting with Battle for Zindekar, we have one large set in the fall, a small set in the winter,

then a large set in the spring, which is a brand new, you know, a brand new block, and then a small set in the summer.

So anyway, I'm going to talk about sort of kind of how we got there and what led us to the current two block model.

So that is today's topic, all about the history of one of the biggest decisions we've ever

made about the game. Okay, so where do we start? This story actually starts all the way back

in Ravnikah. So what happens was we had made Ravnika.

We had made the three sets, made Ravnika and Guild Pact and Dissension.

And then we originally weren't going to do anything for that summer.

At the time, every other summer we made a core set.

But this was a summer where we didn't have a core set.

And so there was big discussions about whether or not we should have another set.

And the decision came down actually kind of late that, yeah, we were going to.

And we had a lot of discussion about what it should be.

It ended up being cold snap, which was the, in quotes, loss set.

We had never had a third set for Ice Age and all the other blocks at three sets.

And so we had this gimmicky.

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