I'm pulling away from the curb because I brought my son off at school. We all know what that means.

It's time for their drive to work. Okay, so today is the start of a multi, of a little multi podcast

series based called Looking Back, based on some articles I did. So what I did was I looked back

the 30 previous years of magic

and then for each year,

I picked what I thought was the most innovative element

from a design standpoint,

and then I would pick one or two runner-ups.

So what I would go do today

is do the same things I did in that article,

but because it's a podcast,

I can go in a little bit more depth than I did in the article.

Okay, start with 1993.

So the randomized booster releases of that year were limited edition alpha, limited edition beta, and Arabian Nights came in right at the tail end of the year.

Okay, so the best addition to magic from 1993.

The Golden Trifecta.

Now, I've literally done three podcasts on this.

So the Golden Trifecta are the three genius ideas that I believe Richard Garfield had when he made magic. Number one was the

concept of a trading card game. It itself is a very cool idea. And remember, the very essence of the

idea that you would take a trading, take trading cards, which pre-existed, and then make a game out of them,

and allow you to

choose and pick what you, what you build that from any piece you have, you can build something.

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