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

Okay, so a while ago, I did a podcast not about magic. I talked about the design of the Star Wars trading card game.

And it went over very well and people said, please share other design stories of games other than magic.

So today is one such a day.

So there was another game that I was very involved in the creation of,

a trading card game known as Dual Mafters.

So today I'm going to walk you all through the design of Dual Mafter,

sort of how it started, what it did, how we made it,

and just give you a different

vantage point.

Today is full of design, but not magic design exactly.

So, anyway, let's get started.

So we go back to 2000, not 2000, well, the dual master started 2002, but we actually

go back to, um, was it 97, I think? Either 96 or 97. Um,

so magic could come out in 1993, and in Japan, they were making Pokemon, a video game for

the Nintendo. Um, and somebody there was a fan of magic.

And they decided that along with the video game, it would be fun to make a trading card

game to go along with Pokemon.

And so they made it.

And then they came to us because we were able to make magic, and that's what inspired

it.

And they asked us to distribute it in the United States.

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