I'm pulling away from the curb because I dropped my son off at school.

We all know what that means.

It's time for a drive to work.

Okay, so today is all about designing tokens.

Now, I have done a two-part podcast on the history of creature tokens,

and I did a separate podcast on the history of artifact tokens.

So today I'm talking about tokens in general.

The vast majority of the tokens we make are creature tokens,

although we do make more and more we've been making more artifact tokens.

I will get into all that.

So let me just, for those that have not listened to these other podcasts, I will do a little tiny

history, but the crux of today we're talking about actually designing tokens.

What are the things we think about? Why are tokens important? You know, everything you need to

know about the making of tokens, how to design tokens. Okay, so first, let's go with a little

history. So the very first, let's go with a little history.

So the very first token existed

in Alpha. So the very first token goes back to the very

beginning of magic on a card called

the hive. I've talked about this card. So

the hive was an artifact that made little

wasp tokens, little

one-one flying tokens. The reason Richard made it was he liked the idea that there was a hive

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