I'm pulling on the driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for a drive to work.

Okay, so today is a topic near and dear to my heart, the color pie.

But instead of talking about the color pie, I'm going to talk about the history of the color pie.

So I'm going to go all the way back to Alpha

and sort of talk about the color pie

as it evolved over time.

So this is, I like doing history podcasts

where I sort of talk about how things came to be.

I like talking color pie.

Why not combine them?

So this is your historical color pie podcast.

Dun-tun-tun.

Okay, so let's go back to the very beginning.

Richard the Garfield creates Magic the Gathering with Alpha.

Now, the color pie exists for a very important reason.

I talk about this a lot, but it's important to this particular story.

When making a trading card game, Richard had what he referred to as the queen problem.

And the idea is, okay, I'm making chess and I'm making different pieces you can choose.

Why won't, you know, except for the king you have to have for the wind condition, why not all

queens?

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