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

It's time from the drive to work. Okay, so today's topic came from a suggestion on blue sky.

For those who do not know, I'm now on blue sky. Um, Twitter is, uh, blue sky is like Twitter of the past, which is very nice. So if you've never been

on blue sky or if you are on blue sky, I'm there, Maro 254. Okay, so let's talk about rarity swaps.

So in order to understand rarity swaps, let's first talk a little bit about rarity what is rarity why do we do

rarity um so when magic began there were three rarities common uncommon and rare and then eventually we

added a fourth rarity which is mythic rare and so that don't get real technical there are a few other rarities there's land rarities and token't get real technical, there are a few other rarities,

there's land rarities and token rarities,

and there are a few other things that exist.

But mostly for purposes of today's conversation,

there's four rarities, common, uncommon, rare, and myth.

The core idea of rarities is when Richard built magic, one of the genius ideas he used, one of the golden trifecta, is the idea of taking trading cards and making a game out of them.

So trading cards pre-existed, magic obviously. Trading cards started as a means as a collectible. The idea was you would have

sports like baseball or movies or singers. You'd have something that you wanted to collect,

something that you cared about. And then there were different cards that represented those

different things. And the idea is that when you buy a pack,

you don't know what you're getting.

That it's,

the randomization was a big part of it.

That part of what you want is you want to buy new packs to see what you get.

Richard realized that the custom,

the,

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