#1364: Ravnica Allegiance

Mark Rosewater· Host0:01

I'm pulling in my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another Drive to Work. Okay, so today's another in my series where I'm trying to talk about every Magic expansion ever. Um, so I, I'm up to Ravnica Allegiance. So interestingly, I always assumed when I got to the point where I started my podcast that I would've already talked about these episodes, but, uh, that is not true. So I have talked about Guilds of Ravnica, and I did do a Lessons Learned about both Guilds of Ravnica and Ravnica Allegiance. The reason I did them together is the design was done together. Um, but I've not talked about Ravnica Allegiance as a set alone, so I decided that today I will. Um, so Ravnica Allegiance, codename Meatballs. Uh, Guilds of Ravnica was Spaghetti, so Spaghetti and Meatballs. Uh, and it came out January 25th, 2019. 259 cards, 111 commons, 80 uncommons, 53 rares, 15 mythics. Um, I led the vision design. Uh, the team was me, Jules Robbins, Jackie Lee, Ari Levitch, who did the creative team, Sam Stoddard, who I handed off to, and Bryant Hawley. Uh, the development or the set design team was led by Sam Stoddard, uh, Eric Lauer, Adam Prozak, Dave Humphreys, Michael Majors, Paul Chion, and Peter Lee. Okay. So, uh, I guess I should start by talking about where were we in Magic? So this was our third visit, uh, to Ravnica. Uh,