I'm not pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for other drive to work at Home Edition.

So today is a topic that people have asked me to do for a while, which is all about names.

How do we name sets?

So I decided to get a special guest, Ari Zerulik.

So Ari is here.

He actually namesets.

So we have a pro here. Hey, Ari.

Hey, Mark. I'm here. I facilitate the naming process for modern Magic the Gathering sets.

It's a group. There's a lot of people involved. No one person, no one person picks a name.

It's, it's, it you're in charge of coming up with names that people like and then the group picks one of those names usually, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

We'll go through the process.

It's pretty fun.

Before we get there, I'm going to start a little history.

I like to think of this podcast as being a magic history podcast.

Okay, so let's go back to the early days of magic.

How did Zeds get named when

magic first started? In fact, the interesting, let's talk about the very, the game itself,

there's actually a funny story here. So when Richard made Magic the Gathering, he called it

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