I'm pulling out the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to drive to work.

Okay, so today's topic is frames and borders. Very exciting stuff.

So I'm going to talk about the history of frames and borders. I'm going to do my best to hit as many things as I can.

There's a lot of things. I guarantee I will miss some things,

but I'm doing my best to try to run through the history. Okay, so when magic begins way back

in the beginning, one of the initial questions that Richard Garfield and Peter Atkinson

and the other people that made magic in the beginning had was they were making a collectible. It was a game and they wanted it to be a good game. There was also a collectible. And one of the things they knew that was important was first printing. And they wanted to make sure that people could differentiate the first printing from future printing. So they knew they were going to reprint things. And so the idea they came upon was to use border.

So the idea was that the first printing of the border, or first printing of the card,

would be in a black border. And then future, like reprints of the card would be in a white

border. Now, in the world that they lived in early magic,

mostly new sets had new cards when at Blackboarder. I do think there was the ability for you to

have cards come back with new art, and then those would be Blackborder because it was first

time printing in that art. But the idea is that if I was reprinting a card where I'm not adding new elements to the card,

like in the corsets, that would be in white border.

So the idea was, like, limited edition came out.

So alpha and beta were both part of what's called limited edition.

Those were blackboarder.

And then came unlimited edition, and unlimited Unlimited Edition was in White Border.

So Unlimited basically had the cards, a few exceptions that were in beta, but in a white border rather than a Blackboarder. And early magic, cards existed in Black and White Border, and Black Border was more sought after than White Border.

One of the things that, like, I did back in the day,

because I cared a little bit more as a game than a collectible.

So I would make trades with people to trade my Black Border,

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