Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay.

So oftentimes when I'm doing this podcast, I tend to do things from the past,

leaving the more recent things from my column and such.

But today, I thought I would talk about the design of a recent set, Theros.

Now, I've recently written about Theros, and so we'll see how this goes, and so there'll be some overlap here.

Hopefully I will add some new stories and new things that you did not hear or embellish the ones that I talked about in my column.

But today, and probably for a few podcasts, since I had plenty to say, I'm going to talk about

the design of Theros.

Okay.

In the beginning.

Okay, so what happened with Theros is, many years ago, Aaron called me in his office and told me that he wanted me to do another

seven-year plan.

So what had happened way back when, when Randy Bueller was my boss, he asked me for a five-year

plan, I ended up making a six-year plan, and then Aaron, I guess, asked me for a six-year plan,

and I made a seven-year plan.

So, during the time period, Ferris was what was year three.

So year one was Innestrade, which had been planned.

I mean, when I made the six-year plan, I kind of knew the seventh year was going to be Inestrade,

although it took me a little while to convince everybody that it was a good idea.

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