I'm pulling away from the curb. We all know what that means. Well, I dropped my son off at college.

And it's time for drive to work. Okay, so today, so most people who are playing magic today,

and listening to this podcast, were not playing magic in 1993 when it came out. So I thought today, I've touched upon this from time to time,

but I really wanted to focus on what it was like when the game came out in 1993,

sort of like, what was magic like?

Because magic has changed in a lot of ways.

So I thought today it would be fun to sort of go back and give everybody the experience

of learning about magic in 1993.

Okay, so magic first came out in August of 1993 at Gen Con.

Okay, so first off, let's say you want to play the game of magic.

It's 1993, and through the rumor mill you've heard about this amazing game that has cards

and it's about magic.

And that's how I first learned about the game.

I was working at a game store and someone came in and asked me about it, and then somebody

else came in and asked me about it, then somebody else came in and asked me about it then somebody else came in and asked me about it and I was very intrigued to find it so the

first thing I found was it was hard to find so basically what happens is

Wizard of the Coast makes what they think will be enough product for a year you

know maybe if things go really well, six months.

So early on, when Richard Garfield and Peter Ackeson, when Wizards and Peter, you know,

basically the super fast version of the story, I will get into it, is Richard comes to pitch

Robo Rally, it's too many pieces.

Peter says they can make a card game.

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