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Okay, so today's topic is the aesthetic color pie. Now, this is not aesthetics. I did a whole

podcast on the concept of aesthetics, which is slightly different. This is an element of how we look

at the color pie, an aspect of the color pie that I've not talked about or not talked about in great depth.

So today I will talk about it.

Okay, so before I get into what exactly the aesthetic color pie is, let's talk a little bit about color pie in general.

So let's do a little history lesson.

Regular listeners will know some of this, but this is important contextually to understand color pie. So let's do a little history lesson. Regular listeners will know some of this,

but this is important contextually to understand color pie. So many years ago, back in 1991, I think,

Richard Garfield comes to Wizards to pitch a game called Robo Rally. They aren't able to make it,

but he says, what can you make?

And they say, we can make a card game with illustrations on it.

So, Rachel, I mean, Richard, sorry, Rachel's my daughter.

Richard thinks of what exactly, what are cool cards with pictures on them?

And he thinks trading cards.

In his youth, Rachel really enjoyed trading cards.

And he said, that's a neat concept.

They're cards that come randomized.

Well, what if you could make a game out of them?

And that was, he had this big epiphany.

Like, what if we make a game out of trading cards?

Now, there was an inherent challenge in doing that. What Richard called the queen problem, which is if you were playing

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