If it were me, I would have actually started TWO years earlier with Scars of Mirrodin, just for the cutesiness of like, being able to tell people about it: "You know how Modern starts with Mirrodin? Well, Pioneer starts with SCARS of Mirrodin." Idk i feel like it would make it easier for people to wrap their heads around, plus we'd get the Titans from M12! And if they brought Historic back to Kaladesh from the Beta, then all three non-rotating formats would start with an artifact set, if people wanted to conceptualize it that way.
Idk, I just think that, since Modern's start date is so well-established, the other non-rotating formats that start from somewhere should be able to relate back to that same kind of starting point in some way, just so people can think like, "Oh well this one starts from this artifact block (Modern-Mirrodin), this one starts from the next artifact block (Pioneer-Scars), and this one starts from the most recent artifact block (Historic-Kaladesh)" rather than, like. if you ask a player to remember all this stuff, MRD/RTR/XLN feels a lot more arbitrary
Well in Theory you could say that there is a connection:
RTR block was 2013
Mirrodin block was 2003
The game released 1993
So if you take Pioneer, Mirrodin and Legacy there is a new Eternal format every 10 years.
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Well in Theory you could say that there is a connection:
RTR block was 2013
Mirrodin block was 2003
The game released 1993
So if you take Pioneer, Mirrodin and Legacy there is a new Eternal format every 10 years.