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

Okay, so one of the things that happens every morning is I get up and I have to say, what is my podcast today?

Most of the time I do not know, when I wake up, I do not know what my podcast is and I have to figure it out.

Now, I have a long list of things. People give me suggestions.

So I have a lot of things I can look at. But every once in a while, I say, do I have 30 minutes on

topic X? And then I will get in the car and I'll drive and I'll see if I have 30 minutes.

Now, if you're hearing this, the answer is I did have 30 minutes.

If I didn't have 30 minutes, you just wouldn't hear it. But today, today my challenge is,

do I have 30 minutes on the magic cardback? Yes, I'm going to talk for 30 minutes,

or try to at least, about the magic card back. So we're going to talk about everything we can, everything try to at least, about the magic card back.

So we're going to talk about everything we can,

everything you ever wanted to know about the magic hardback.

Cardback, today is your day to learn those things.

Okay, so to start with the magic card back.

So obviously, magic is a card game. One of the qualities of card games in general is you have a unified back,

stemming from like a deck of cards, right? It's important that you don't know what card you're drawing.

Randomization is important part of the game. So you want the back to all look the same. Now remember when Magic first started back in 93,

sleeves weren't a thing.

Clear sleeves showed up pretty early in Magic,

probably like in 94, clear sheets up,

but opaque sleeves actually took a little while to show up.

So the idea was it was important that the back

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