I'm pulling out of my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time another drive to work.

Okay, so today is about the quirks of Alpha.

So Match of the Gathering first appeared in August of 1993 in a set that, originally was called Limited, I guess, Metron the Gathering Limited,

but there's two versions of Limited,

what we now refer to as Alpha and Beta.

Basically, what happened is they put out,

they made what they thought was enough for like a year,

sold out in three weeks,

then they made another set,

which I thought was enough for a year, sold out in a week.

Alpha is very similar to beta.

There's two cards that were missing from Alpha, Circle Protection Black and Volcanic Island.

Those got added, and then they added one more art for each basic land in beta,

just so they could say, I think, over 300 cards on the advertising and stuff.

But anyway, one of the things I want to talk about today is there's a lot of charm in

Alpha.

There's a lot of quirky things in Alpha.

So I want to walk through and just talk about some of the things when the game began,

things that aren't, aren't so anymore, but we're true when the game began.

So that's today. Just talking about some of the fun quirks of Alpha.

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