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

Okay. So today I'm going to talk about playtest cards. So you see, in order for us to play

test with things that don't exist yet, we have to have something to playtest with. And so the

evolution of the playtest card is an interesting story,

something that R&D has had to deal with since the very beginning.

And so that's my plan today.

I'm going to sort of talk about the evolution of the playtest card.

Okay, so we're going to begin our story before Magic even came out.

We have to go all the way back to, I don't know, 1992, 91, 92, maybe 1990. Well, Magic came on in 1993.

I'm not sure how long Richard was working on, like a couple years.

But obviously, when Richard first made the game to prototype, you know, prototype, you know, there weren't cards yet or anything.

So when Richard first made the game, he made them on tiny pieces of cardboard.

You might have even seen these.

They were about an inch wide, maybe an inch and a half wide and maybe like two, two and a half inches long, they were,

they were definitely, they had the look of a card, but they were tiny. So they were not the size,

like magic cards right now, you know, there's standardized cards, and they refer to them

as bridge size and poker size for a normal deck of cards.

Those have two different major sizes.

And magic, I think, is bridge size, is what they call it.

But the early playtest that Richard made, the early playtest cards were teeny tiny.

They weren't that big.

And basically what happened was the way Richard made them is, I think he just got a thicker card stock.

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