I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

So today we get basic. Basic lands, that is. So today I'm going to talk all about basic lands for 30 minutes to tell you, hopefully more than you ever knew about basic lands.

Okay, so the first thing I want to talk about is sort of the history of basic lands,

because I don't know how many people know the history of basic lands.

Okay, so, quick recap, for those that have not heard the story, this is a very classic story.

So Richard Garfield and his friend Mike Davis come to Seattle, Washington, to Wizards of the Coast to try and sell

Richard's game Robo Rally.

So for those, by the way, they've never played Robo Rally.

The premise of the game is you are robots and you are racing through a factory, but you're,

you get cards that represent programming going straight or right or left or going

forward and you have to kind of program what's going to happen.

But you don't know what the other robots are going to do.

And so anyway, chaos and suits.

It's a very fun game.

Anyway, so they meet with Peter Atkinson, who was the original CEO of Wizards.

And what Peter says is, wow, this seems like a really fun game.

But the problem is the component

pieces are too expensive. It's basically too expensive. We're too small of a company. We can't make a game

with this many component pieces to it. And what Peter says is, look, here's what I can do. I have

access to a printer. I have access to artists. So I could make cards with art. here's what I can do. I have access to a printer. I have access to artists.

So I could make cards with art.

That's what I can make.

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