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

their drive to work. Okay guys, from time to time I'd like to use my podcast to look

back at a column that I did that I thought was a very influential column and talk

all about it. So today's is based on a column called When Cards Go Bad.

And real quickly, a little history in this column, it's actually an interesting column.

So when the website started, the website started in January of 2002.

And one of the things that we did was we used to do a thing called Question of the Day, where we'd have people sending questions, and then every day a different person in Wizards, often R&D, but throughout Wizards,

we would get a question and then find the most appropriate person to answer the question.

So the idea was, you could ask something, and then if it was about printing,

we'd go to the printing people.

It was about sales, we'd go to sales.

Whatever it was, we'd go to the printing people. It was about sales. We'd go to sales. Whatever it was, we'd go to the correct people.

So the question was something about bad cards. And I made the statement that bad cards had to exist. So someone sent me this long letter about how dare I say bad cards had to exist. And so I decided to write a whole article about it, why bad cards exist.

And what was interesting was it was the first time I'd really sort of done kind of behind the scenes,

let me explain why we do what we do.

And the response to it was really positive. And I think

it really was the thing that helped me set my tone for my column. So anyway, I consider this to be my

first sort of really influential, very, you know, the column that kind of put the stake in the map

of what making magic my column was all about. Okay, so why? Why do we make bad cards?

It's a very interesting question, and it's broader than just magic.

The real question is why in any game are, why is there a discrepancy?

Why are all things of equal power?

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