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Okay, today I'm talking about the most hated mechanic of all time.

I will be talking about anti. So today I will explain what anti is, how anti came to be, and why it was purged from the game.

All of that today.

Okay, so first off, what is ante?

Some of you might not even know what anti is.

So, when Magic first began, it had the following rule, which, by the way, was mandatory,

not an optional rule, a mandatory rule, that said, when you drew your original hand of seven cards, you then drew an eighth card,

you placed it outside the game.

People could see what it was.

And then the winner of the game won the anti-cart of the loser.

And by one, I mean permanently gained ownership of it so we would sit down

draw my cards put my anti-card out at the end of the game one of us would lose the winner of the

game now owned the ante card of the loser owned permanently their possession they walk away and they

have it.

That is what anti is.

So basically what happened is when Magic first got created, that was the rules for Magic.

Obviously, people could opt out of it.

We'll talk about that in a second.

Many, many did.

But that was sort of the default rules.

Like when Magic started, you had a 40-card deck, not 60.

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