I'm not pulling on the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive-to-work,

coronavirus edition. Okay, so last time I had Richard Garfield, and we were talking about Arabian

Knights, but 30 minutes was not enough. So it's part two. So welcome, Richard. Hi. Okay, so

good to be back. Last week left, we started talking about some cards.

So I think we'll...

I might ask you a few questions about the said in general,

but I definitely want to get to some individual card stories

because it's fun to talk about how individual cards got made.

Sure.

So I'm going to start with one that has always fascinated me.

Jeweled Bird.

So let me read it, and then we can talk about how Jewel Bird got made.

So it's an artifact, a mono artifact technique, as it was written on the card.

It costs one generic mana.

Draw a card and exchange Jewel Bird for your contribution to the ante.

Your former contribution goes to your graveyard. Remove this card from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

So you have to first explain to our audience what ante is,

and for a lot of them, they have no idea what that is.

Yeah.

Ante is a pretty interesting stage in magic. When magic first came out, an official part of the rules was that you would cut your opponent's deck and flip up the top card, and that was the stakes of the battle. And I fully expected players to not play that way when they didn't want to, but having

grown up playing things like marbles, where it was more exciting to play marbles for

keeps, that it was something I also expected a lot of players to like doing, to add a little

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