I'm not pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

Coronavirus edition. Okay. So today I'm going to talk about what was my favorite set before I came to work for Wizards.

So I'm going to talk about antiquities. Okay, so antiquities came out on March, on March 4th of 1994.

So what happened was, Wizard of the Coast made some enough product for magic, thinking it'll last for quite a while.

It doesn't.

They put Alpha out, it sells right away.

They put beta out, it sells right away.

They put Unlimited out, it sells right away.

So they knew they needed to get some other

some other magic sets out there. So Richard went off and made Arabianites and they went to the team

that was making Ice Age, what we now know is the East Coast playtefters, so scaphalized, Jim Lynn, Dave Petty, and Chris Page,

and said to them, hey, we need a set. And so they quickly made a small set.

So the card, there's 85 unique cards in antiquities, but all the basic lands have multiple

pieces of art.

So most people think of there as being a hundred card set in that if you want to collect

all the different pieces of art.

There were 28 commons, 37 uncomments, 20 rairs.

It has an expansion symbol of an anvil.

And the, so, Arabian Nights was the first kind of top-down set.

Richard said, oh, I'm going to make a theme set based on the Arabianites.

Antiquities was the first sort of mechanically themed set.

What the East Coast Playfetchsters did is they said,

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