I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. It's time for

another drive to work. So dropped off my son at spring break camp, about to take my daughter

to school. So in between dropping off child one and child two, you guys get a podcast. Okay, so today

my topic is rarity. Now, I've talked before.

I've made podcasts about how to design four different rarities,

but today is talking more about the concept of rarity.

I'm going to talk about sort of what exactly it means,

sort of the history of it through magic,

and then, I don't know, just give you lots of facts

and maybe you didn't know about rarities.

Okay, so let's go back to the very beginning, back to Alpha.

So, actually, before we even get to Alpha, let me explain a little bit about how we print magic.

Now, some of this is top secrets.

I can't explain all of our coalition to you, but I can explain some of the basics.

Okay, so when we print magic cards, we are actually printing a giant sheet.

I don't know if you ever seen a magic sheet, but there's different sizes.

The traditional size is 11 by 11.

So what that means is take 11 magic cards wide and 11 magic cards down, And that's the size of our average sheet.

Some sheets are 110, some are 121.

We've done sheets of other sizes.

Magic actually prints in a whole bunch of different printers,

and not every printer always treats things the same.

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