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

Okay, so today's topic is I kind of want to talk about the history and evolution of magic design.

I don't know, my gut is this is going to be more than one podcast, only because I got 30 years and 30 minutes.

So I think it's been longer than a minute per year.

But the idea behind this topic is I want to talk about how the making of magic has changed.

So this really gets it.

I'm not going to talk so much about the making of the set, meaning what,

how did the particular set it made, but the larger structure of, like, how did we make magic

sets at the time? So this is more about the behind the scenes of making it than what it was.

Okay, so we'll go back all the way to beginning. Alpha. So, real quickly, this story a lot of people have heard, but Richard Garfield and his friend

Mike Davis come to Wizards of the Coast in Seattle, Washington, or rented Washington

technically, to pitch their game Robo Rally.

Peter says, we're a small company.

We can't make, that's too many pieces. We can't make that game. Richard says, what can you make? And Peter says, we're a small company. We can't make. That's too many pieces. We can't make

that game. Richard says, what can you make? And Peter says, we can make a card game. We have

access to a printer and artists. That inspires Richard to come up with the concept of the trading

card game. Richard, I just learned this out.

The first game, so Richard decided to take games he already owned.

So rather than make a game from scratch, he adapted a game he already had.

And Richard invents a lot of games.

So it turns out the very first game he tried adapting wasn't magic.

It was a different game.

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