Mirrodin

Mishra's lost to the Phyrexians, all of this stuff.

Karn, the person who spreads Phyrexian oil across the multiverse and takes it to Mirrodin and all of these things, like, kind of bad.

But anyhow, here's the backstory for Karn from that Legends article.

Hmm.

While Karn was honored by Mishra's gift, he had grown weary of the endless battles and wild adventures of his life.

Karn decided to settle down after traveling the multiverse and used his spark in an act of creation.

He forged Mirrodin, a shining metal plain of peace and prosperity that would never know the horrors of war.

Karn watches over the planes as its guardian and shepherd, hoping to guide life so that it might flourish and prosper under the five vibrant suns.

So, uh, the next Atog, um, so that's Odyssey.

Um, the next Atog does not show up until Mirrodin.

Um, so for those that don't know, uh, so it's Odyssey, then Onslaught, um, and then after, act- actually after Onslaught is Mirrodin, so two, two blocks later.

Um, so, so let me talk a little bit about, about original Atog, by the way.

So original Atog, like I said, was in Antiquities.

Uh, and then he shows up in Revised.

He shows up for the next time in Fifth Edition.

And then we are making Mirrodin.

They

were giving you crap like, oh, he has Affinity Tron out because he had like one of each of the Mirrodin

lands.

Or whatever, the four

Uh, it's one and a white for an artifact.

Equipment with Mirrodin, so it enters with a 2/2 rebel.

And whenever equipped creature and at least one other creature attack, draw a card.

Mm-hmm.

Like, if I can play and immediately use it, at least in the early game, that's problematic.

We made this in Mirrodin, or in Scars of Mirrodin.

In Scars of Mirrodin, we decided, we talked about doing Affinity for Artifacts, bringing it back.

But it had gone so awry the previous time, even though we thought we could do it, we thought that it would just get people too concerned.

And so we decided instead to do a variant.

But for seven green green, you can go get two creatures out of your deck and put them on the battlefield.

Obviously pretty powerful.

So the story here, which is a fun story, is if you remember in a previous episode, I talked about making energy and energy being pulled from Mirrodin.

So like, you know, I think some small state might have like one regional tournament.

But like, I think California had like, four or something like that so if you top aided regionals and probably the numbers of the tournament mattered at least the ones that i played in were pretty big because i'm in the bay area so like neutral ground was like hosting a lot of these uh events um at the time if you top eight of the regionals you qualify for nationals um and so that was i got to like go play in baltimore um and that was a blast uh that was that was a super fun thing to do i was playing tooth and nail uh in I guess it would have been Mirrodin.

I don't even know.

Champions.

Champions Mirrodin was the standard format.

Got it.

Got it.

I can't.

I can't talk about Mirrodin right now.

We've got to address the audience because I'm literally thanking them.

That's what I was doing.