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

Okay, I had to do a little errand for my wife, but it's time to podcast. Okay, so today's topic is booster packs.

I'm going to tell you more than you ever wanted to know about the booster pack.

Okay, so let's start, let's go a little technical to start.

What exactly is a booster pack?

How do you make a booster pack?

Now, booster packs predate magic, obviously.

Booster packs are technology that trading cards have always been made with.

So let's talk a little bit about what they are.

Okay, so the way you make a booster

is you take the booster material, which I'll talk a little bit. Over the years, we've changed

a little bit what our booster material is. But usually it is something that is, usually it's

metallic, not always, but it's something in which it's firm enough that you can

hold stuff inside it. So the way that it is made is you print flat an image that you print many,

many times and you chop up. And then what you do is you take it and you wrap it around and you

sort of heat seal the end, you crinkle it.

And then it makes a tube. So you imagine you print and then you cut it out. So imagine you took

a booster pack and you completely undid all the seams and laid it flat. That's how it's printed.

Then the first thing they do is they wrap around the sides and they cr it flat. That's how it's printed. Then the first thing they do is they

wrap around the sides and they crinkle it. That's the thing that runs on the back. And they make

a little tube out of it. And then the way it works is that the cards, so magic, there's different

sheets of cards and there's a common sheet, an uncommon sheet,

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