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Coronavirus edition. So I've been using my time at home to interview people from the present and past.

Today, from the past. So I have Henry Stern to go way back to talk about Portal Free Kingdoms.

Hey, Henry. Hey, Mark. Hey, Mark. How you doing?

Okay, so let's go back to the very beginning, which is what in the world?

What is portal three kingdoms?

What is this?

Yeah, so Portal Three Kingdoms is an odd duck for magic sets.

This has happened, oh gosh, is it, 97, 98?

I forget when Bill Rose.

The set came out in 99.

May 99 is when the set came out.

Okay, so I was working on in 98 then is when the work was happening.

Oh yeah, so, well, how much context do we need for even what portal is for folks?

Well, I explain a little bit of what portal is, then we'll jump into Portal for games. Okay, so Portal was a, basically a beginner's version of magic

that we had put out in like 97 or so, I think, somewhere around there.

The portal first came out, and it was the thought behind it was a good thought

that like, hey, you know, magic is pretty hard to understand, especially

for new players.

Can we make like a easier to understand version of magic that captures the essence of magic

but doesn't have all the complexities of rules?

So in portal, there's no, there's sorceries, but no instance, no enchantments, no artifacts.

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