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

Okay, so I have another interactive podcast for you. So there's been a lot of fun with some of the

trivia ones. So this podcast is called Did It Start in Alpha? So I'm going to talk about different

aspects of the game. And the question is, did it start an alpha?

So I will name it to you, and then you have to figure out whether or not it started an alpha or not.

I will then tell you whether or not it started an alpha, and then I will, I'll give you extra information just because that's what I do.

Okay, so we'll start with the five colors of magic.

Did the five colors of magic start in Alpha?

And the answer is, yes, they did.

Now, here's a more interesting question.

Did the five colors of magic, were they ever more than five colors?

Obviously, when the game released in Alpha, it was five colors. But before the game released,

when it was in playtesting ahead of time, were there more than five colors? And the answer is,

no, there were not. So the story goes, Richard Garfield and his friend Mike Davis traveled to, I guess they traveled to Portland, actually, now that I know the story a little better, to pitch to Peter Akison, who was the CEO of Wizards at the time, their game Robo Rally.

But it had too many component parts.

So Peter said to Richard,

what he could make was something that was on cards because he could print cards. Richard had the

idea of a trading card game. And what he did is he took an existing game he had that he called

five colors and he adapted it from a more traditional card game into a trading card game.

So, from the best I understand, the five colors were the five colors you know was magic.

So from the very beginning of him sort of making magic, I believe it was five color.

I know it was five colors. I believe it was those five colors.

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