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

And I had to drop off my son at camp again. Okay. So last time I talked all about my trip to Sandio

Comic-Con. And I said that in my panel, I did a little thing where I did all of magic history in 15 minutes.

So I thought I would recreate that here, stretching a little bit because I got 30 minutes rather than 15.

But what I want to do is sort of cover the history of magic in 30 minutes.

Okay, so we go back to 1993.

And the reason I want to do this, by the way, is there's a lot of things in magic that I think you think of having always been in magic.

And a lot of those things simply haven't been. Okay, so we go back to Alpha. So in August of

1993, at Gen Con, the very first magic goes on sale.

And this is what we call Alpha, limited edition.

So what happened was they printed enough product of limited edition that they expected

to last anywhere from six months to a year, maybe even longer.

And it ended up selling out in three weeks.

So Alpha has some thing... I mean, there are some things that started in Alpha.

For example, flying, First Strike, trample, protection,

all those go all the way back to Alpha.

A lot of other things you might think do, don't, as we'll see. Alpha had, I mean, there's a lot of basic mechanical things that

happened there. There's things that would later get keyworded that weren't yet keyworded. We'll

talk about that. Also, Alpha, a couple of things a lot of people might not realize. First off,

when Alpha got sold, there were two ways to buy Magic originally.

There was a booster pack that we still sell now, and there was what we call the starter deck.

A starter deck was 60 cards, and it came with land in it.

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