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

We all know what that means. It's time for my drive to work.

Okay, so today is all about the exile zone.

Ooh, exciting!

Okay, so first, I'm going to talk about the history of the exile zone,

and then I'm going to talk about sort of how we use it in design,

and just a bunch of, I mean, it is a zone,

so there's a lot of talk of how we use and what we do with it

and what are dangers of it and stuff like that.

We'll get to all that today.

So first, let's get into the history of it.

So when the game began way back in Alpha,

Richard Garfield actually included the concept of exile,

not the word exile.

That wouldn't happen for a while.

But the concept of exile showed up on two cards in Alpha.

One card was swords to plowshares.

So the flavor of sorts to plowshares is they make a creature give up.

They're fighting ways.

They just want peace.

They just want to go off and become a farmer.

Leave them be.

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