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Okay, so today's topic is alternative win conditions.

What we also refer to as alt win conditions.

So when Richard Garfield made the game of magic, he built in a win condition.

The win condition is each player has zero.

Each player has 20 life, and when it gets to zero life, you lose.

And so that is how your opponent beats you, that getting you to zero life.

But there are other ways in magic to win.

And one of the fun things about alt- win conditions is they really let you sort of think

differently, build different kind of decks, and just play in a way that's not the way

you normally play.

Okay, so the first alt-win condition actually was built into the very fabric of the game.

So when Richard was making magic, there's a problem.

What if we get to a game state where neither player can defeat the other player?

Let's say the board gets all gummed up.

I don't have any invasive creatures.

Okay, well, what's going to make the game end?

Like, the game needs to end at some point.

So Richard came up the idea of, okay, well, you have cards in your deck.

What if you just can't draw a card, you lose the game?

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