I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, today is all about mana symbols. So I'm going to talk about the history of various

mana symbols and how we've used them and how they came about. And I don't know, just today's a history

podcast. Okay, so we will start with the five basic manned symbols, white, blue,

black, red, and green. So I did a whole podcast on the mana system explaining, you know,

why it's so important. There's a thing I call the golden trifecta, which is the three

genius ideas that Richard Garfield came up when he made Magic the Gathering.

One is the idea of a trading card game.

One is the color pie.

And one is the mana system.

So I'm not going to really get into the mana system per se.

If you want to understand why Richard made it that way, why it exists in the game. You want to go listen to that podcast.

But I will say that Richard realized very early on that he needed a resource in the game.

And so there were, I guess technically in Alpha, there were the five colored mana symbols,

and there was the generic mana symbol.

And the generic manned symbol, there's a bunch of them.

It can be anywhere from zero up to, I don't know how high a number we've made.

I think 16.

But, so the idea was Richard knew that he needed...

Richard, like, Richard understood the concept of

there needed to be some cost to doing things.

He liked the idea that was tied to land,

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