I'm playing on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time from the drive to work.

Okay, so today is the history of the Kicker mechanic. So we're going to go all the way back to the beginning, talk about where it came from, and then talk about all its uses over time.

Okay, so Kicker, interestingly, has an origin that predates the game coming out.

Dun, dun, da.

Okay, so for those that don't know their history of magic,

when Richard Garfield first invented magic,

he actually had a whole bunch of playtesters in Pennsylvania.

And so what happened was when it became clear that the game was going to get made, he actually went to his playtefters and he said to them

that he was interested in having them make some sets. So the playtesters ended up make, there's three

different sets they got were made by the playtefters.

The first was made by what we call the East Coast playtefters.

Scephalias, Jim Lynn, Dave Petty, Chris Page.

These are people that Richard all met at the University of Pennsylvania.

And the set they worked on was Ice Age.

This group would go out, now they make Ice Age, they would later make alliances.

They made Fawn Empires.

They made Antiquities.

But the first set they worked on was Ice Age.

And my nickname for it was Ice Age.

The second group was a group that Richard had met through his bridge club.

So that was Bill Rose, Charlie Cateo, Joel Mick, Howard Collenberg, Don Felice,

Elliot Siegel.

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