Then September came that year and Ixalan dropped. The initial world pitch was a sea exploration plane I tentatively called Piragua, whose factions were different fleets. KTK remains as my favorite draft format of all time, and I wanted to replicate its success. So I went to work on a different idea, eventually landing on the desire to make another Khans of Tarkir-that is to say, a tricolor faction set. The files got corrupted after having finished a draft of my commons, and motivation to continue it after disappeared. With that out of the way, let's get onto how this set came to be!ĭesign for this set began in mid-2017, shortly after I lost my setfiles for a return to Theros block whose sets I was calling Theros Triumphant and Dreams Discordant. I'm also very glad to have a space on the Discord for the set in my own channel!Įxtending my thanks also to URPG and IMF, and all the random Discord friends I've had who commented on the set in one way or another. I'm repeating myself but there's just too many of you to mention (and I'd hate to leave out names), so I'll just go ahead and thank everyone from this community who has given me support, valuable feedback and/or participated in events for the set. The Custom Magic Discord community has also been an ever present force throughout this set's life. There's too many of you to mention, but know that I appreciate all the feedback and patience you've given me and my card designs! A lot of people here also inspired me to actually finish the set, and have pushed me to design with MSE Modern in mind. The folks over at the Magic Set Editor Discord have been a tremendous help with this project, from its early days up to its completion. He's done a lot of behind the scenes work for the set, including playtesting faction mechanic iterations, sanity checking my green designs, and turning the shard watermarks into snazzy vectors. I started playing Magic with cyrilgreenranger twelve years ago, and he's always been a great friend to bounce ideas off of. Here's hoping you like what the set has to offer! I've come close over the years, but Alara will be the first set I've done that I'm proud of. I've been in the custom Magic designing community since I began playing the game in 2008, and have been trying to complete a set ever since. We'll be kicking things off with me telling the story of the set's design process, introducing the people and communities who have helped me with this set, and of course-previewing cards! Firstly I'd like to point to the absolute genius of this article's title, as "Rock" was original Shards of Alara's development code name. Welcome to the first week of Alara previews. Posted in Mako Magic on September 11, 2020
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