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

So today's topic was a request for my blog. They wanted to talk about expansion symbols.

So I got the expert, Daniel Holt, the guy who makes the expansion symbols. Hey, Daniel.

Hey, Mark. How's it going?

Okay, so let's, I'm going to give a little bit of history before we dive into, like, how we make them, just so people understand the history of them.

So we have to go all the way back to Arabian Nights, so the first ever expansion.

So the original plan for Arabian Nights was the back was going to be different. I don't know if you

guys have ever seen it. There was like a purple magic back that's going to be the back.

And at very, very late in the process, I mean very late in the process, they thought, you know,

maybe the magic back should all stay the same. And so they changed it. But then they raised

the question of, how do you know that these cards come from this

set?

And so they came up with the idea of an expansion symbol.

So that was kind of a last-minute necessity when they decided not to change the back.

And the very first expansion symbol, Rabid Knights, had a scimitar.

As we'll talk with Daniel, the early symbols were very much, here's an object.

I know we'll talk about how there's only so many objects and stuff.

Yeah, it's very iconic, though, that cimitar.

Yeah, the very, like the, the, so the very first few were, like, was a scimitar for Arabian Nights.

It was an anvil for antiquities, because that was about artifacts.

It was a Roman column for, for legends.

So a lot of the early ones were very simple.

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