#1357: Aether Revolt

Mark Rosewater· Host0:00

I'm pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for Drive to Work. Okay, one of my ongoing quests of this podcast is to record a podcast about every expansion of Magic, uh, and there's a lot of them. Uh, and I made, uh, good headway. I think today I'm up to Aether Revolt. Um, so Kaladesh was the large set in this block. It's a, it's a block, one large set and one small set. I have talked about Kaladesh a couple times. I have not talked about Aether Revolt. So I'm gonna set the scene a little bit. I gotta talk about, uh, Kaladesh a little bit. Kaladesh, the plane now know is, known as Avishkar. Um, but, uh, let's talk a little bit about the making of the original set, and then we'll get into Aether Revolt. Um, so the idea, the original, I think the jumping-off point for this block was the idea of us doing a steampunk set. Uh, we'd talked for a while that we wanted to do something, uh, and then we wanted to do kind of our stamp on it. Uh, I think, uh, Jeremy Jarvis, who was the art director at the time, liked to call it aetherpunk. Um, and the idea was, uh, our take on it was to try to go a little bit more optimistic than often. Often steampunk can be a, a little less optimistic, and we, we, we liked the idea of something very bright and shiny. We had done some darker worlds, and we're like, "Okay, how about something bright and shiny about creativity