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

Okay. So the last two weeks I've been talking about the design for Scars of Mirrodin. So today, I wanted to talk about some cards, and I thought I'd...

I like what I started doing with these things is I start telling the general stories, and at some point I get to the cards and I feel like while I explain stories of the cards, other stories come out.

And any set in which I was in charge of, I have lots of stories.

So I'm just going to start talking about stuff and we'll go from there.

Let's see.

So I have a list of cards.

Bloodshot trainee.

So one of the things that we always do is whenever we're doing a set, we always ask ourselves,

is there a future-shifted card that could make sense here?

Because one of the funds of FutureSight was kind of like glimpsing the future.

And so we always take a look.

You know, sometimes not every set makes sense.

But every once in a while we were in something, oh, that could work.

And the interesting thing, the Bletchat trainee would not, at first blush, see, like,

this is the set it would be in.

But what we learned is because of, in fact, and because of power mattering so much,

we just had more effects that raised your power than normal.

Plus, we were in Mirrodin, which meant we had more artifact equipment than normal.

And so it just was a world in which, like, you could make bloodshot trainee work more often.

And so it ended up being a good fit. It's kind of funny because it's not, if I said,

go look through FutureSide and find the, you know, Scars of Mirridin card.

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