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

And I dropped Adam off at camp again. Okay, so today I'm going to talk about a topic near and near to my heart.

Poison. So I want to talk a little bit. It's an alternate wind condition. And I'm going to talk a little bit about its history

and a little bit about the challenges of designing with poison because it is, it is an

interesting thing. Okay, so first and foremost, go back, go back in our time machine back to

1994 and a set called Legends.

So in Legends, there were two cards.

One was called Pit Scorpion, and the other was called Serpent Generator.

And those were the first times ever that introduced this idea of a poison counter.

And the idea of a poison counter was that if you got enough poison counters, 10, you just

automatically lost the game.

And the idea was, it was kind of this different kind of way to lose.

Normally in magic, you have life gain, you know, you have 20 life, but you have waves

to offset that, that my opponent can do 20 damage to me and I can still be alive because I

could gain life.

The idea of poison was, I mean, it started as a flavor thing.

If you notice both the cards are literally things that are poisonous things.

One's a scorpion. One makes snakes.

But the idea was, I think it started because they were trying to capture the flavor of actual

literal poison.

And so they came up with the idea of this sort of alternate way to win.

And the kind of, what happened was for a couple of years, every once in a while we'd make

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