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

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

Okay, so today's topic comes from my blog.

Someone wanted to talk about communications.

So the core idea is how it has changed over time, how Wizards communicates with the audience.

That is my topic.

I'm going to try to go chronologically.

I know I did a little bit of research, but this is a very complex topic.

So I might have things slightly out order, so I apologize ahead of time.

But the idea essentially is, how do we at Wizards communicate with all of you?

And this is sort of a history starting in 1993 and the start of magic to now.

So first thing, let's go back to 1993.

Couple things. The first thing I should stress was when Richard Garfield, the creator of magic, when Richard first made magic, I think his philosophy

was that he really liked the idea that a big part of playing magic was discovering magic, that the exploration of the game

itself was a big part of the game. So he really did not want to share information about the game.

So when Magic first came out back in 1993, there were no lists of cards, there were no deck lists.

There was very little information.

In fact, just knowing what the cards were, you know, you'd open a pack and see cards for the first time.

You'd never even seen before.

And I think Richard's vision at the time was like, you would sit down to play, and you would see cards you didn't even know existed when you played against somebody.

And another thing that's really important to remember is when Magic started in 93,

the Internet existed, but it was in its infancy of what we think of now.

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