I'm not pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to drive to work at home edition.

Okay, guys, today I'm going to talk all about die rolling, dice. So I'm going to talk sort of about

where dice came from and how dice have gotten used in Magic the Gathering. So, um, so die rolling, I don't know the true

history of die rolling, but I, I know when they have done like ancient, you know, digging up ancient

civilizations, they've found dice, it's going way, way back. It has been something that has been

part of gaming for a long time. Like Backammon, for example, is a pretty ancient game.

It has a die rolling of a key component of it.

So anyway, so the first die rolling that ever happened were in unglued.

So one of the challenges with making unsets, especially unglued, was I wasn't allowed to make anything that we

would normally make. And so one of the things that that led me to is the idea of, and this is

something that all the unsets have kind of done, is high variance, right? Magic because it's a tournament

game and that we want to sort of make sure that people can play

competitively. We're kind of careful about how much variance we put in. And what I mean by that is

like in any one individual card, how strong it can be, what is the weakest it can be to the

strongest it can be in the moment, not necessarily synergistically, but like,

how powerful is the card? And rolling dice is definitely one of those things where, well,

if you think of a six-sided die, which is sort of the traditional die, well, there's a lot of

variance between rolling a one and rolling a six. And so, and it required another, you know, it required something you might not necessarily have

with you in a game, although a lot of players use dice to keep track of things. So it's actually

decently common for people that have dice with them. But anyway, the first unset was trying to do

unglued was trying to do weird things, and I was trying to sort

raise the variance a little bit. And so magic had, most of the variants in early magic had been

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