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Okay, guys, today I'm talking about set sizes. Exciting.

Part of what I want to talk about today a little bit is how magic has changed its set sizes over time, why it's changed it,

and talk a little bit about why set sizes are the way that they are.

Okay, so we're going to go all of that to Alpha to start our story.

Okay, so Richard Garfield comes up the idea of doing a trading card game.

So most of what happens is when they start making booster packs,

they're using the technology that printing companies had used to make trading cards.

Remember that trading cards are, you know, they're randomized.

And the fundamental way that you make a set is when Magic started, for example, there were three rarities, right?

There was common, uncommon, and rare.

There also was land, by the way, and land was kind of its own rarities, or secretly there

were four rarities.

So the way it works is when we print magic cards, there is a sheet.

There's a giant sheet.

I don't know if you ever see an uncut sheet of magic cards, but it is some number of cards across and some number of cards down.

And when we print, we print the whole sheet at once, and then we cut it.

We chop it into the pieces of what the card size are.

Magic sheets or printing sheets, um, usually there's two main sizes that Magic has used in the past. One is what we call

the 121 up sheet, which is 11 by 11. And the other is what we call the 110, which is 11 by 10.

Just different... The 121 and the 110, they're just a little bit different from each other.

But as we walk through set sizes, these are the defining qualities.

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