I'm pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time from the drive to work.

Okay, so today I'm going to talk all about double face cards. It is something, basically,

I feel that it is, it's more so than a mechanic. In fact, it's larger than a single mechanic.

It's a tool, is what I will describe it as. And so what I mean by this, when I say double-faced cards, let me explain

exactly. I'm going to talk about cards today in which both sides of the card have something

on them other than, there's no back, for say, that the back of the card has a face on it. So when I say double-faced cards, I mean both sides have a face on it.

From rules purposes, I think we define double-faced cards.

So I'm going to talk today about all the cards that are things on both sides.

A few of them might technically not be double-faced cards from a strictly rule standpoint.

But from my standpoint of thinking of the resource of being

able to print on the back. That's what I'm talking about today. So today is the history of where

that came from and then sort of the evolution of how we've used it and a little bit of talk about

where it's going. Okay. So the origin of double face cards actually doesn't start with magic. It starts with a different game. So we make another trading card game at Wizard of the Coast called Dual Mafters. It is a game that I and four other people designed many years ago for the Japanese market.

And it is sold, right now it's sold only the Japanese market.

We have brought it to the U.S. a couple times.

They never really took off in the U.S., but it is very popular in Japan.

The trading card, trading card games are very, very popular in Japan.

There's a lot of them.

Here in the United States, you know, we have,

there's some. I'm not saying there's none, but it's a lot less. Where in Japan, they became quite the thing, especially with kids, and there's just a lot of them. So we decided that we wanted

to make one for the Japanese market, and we made a brand new game called

Dual Masters. I think I did a podcast on Dual Masters specifically. But anyway, so one of the things

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