I'm pulling up a driveway. We all know what that means. This is a drive to work.

Okay, so today I'm going to talk about play test cards.

So, um, this is one of the things that people ask about from time to time.

We've actually recently had a big upgrade, so I'm going to talk about that too.

So for this one, we're going back to the

beginning, back to 1991. I think when Richard started making magic. So we go all the way

to playtest. So the very, very first playtest cards ever made for the alpha playtest were on cardboard. They were put on cardboard. Richard and

Scaff took pictures, existing pictures. And there was a bunch of different pictures. Sometimes

they would be from comics. I know there was like a picture of Superman and run the cards.

I know there was Kelvin and Hobbs showed up.

In fact, one of them, there was a card called Heal, which was the precursor to Healing Sav,

which I think Scaff took a picture of his ankle with a copier.

But anyway, they took a bunch of pictures, and so the original playtest cards were smaller than normal cards. They were about, how about,

maybe an inch and a half wide and maybe two inches tall.

They were much smaller.

Now, what happened was Richard wanted to playtest,

and he wanted people to get a feel of it,

and so they just made cards as easy as they could,

and that was putting them on, like, a cardboard stock,

so they were a little bit thicker.

It wasn't just paper,

so they had a little bit of a stiffness to them. It was on a cardboard stock, so they were a little bit thicker. It wasn't just paper. So they had a little bit of a stiffness to them.

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