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

Okay, so today I've dubbed the rise and fall of the blocks.

So I want to talk all about sort of block evolution, how it came about, how things changed, and how we ended up where we are today.

Okay, so our story begins back in 1993.

Richard Garfield makes Magic the Gathering.

So let me first start with that.

So when Richard first made magic,

there was no way for him to sort of know

what magic was going to become.

The idea that Magic would be this game that just

does constant releases all the time, that is hard to picture. Like, magic became a phenomenon,

but you don't make a game assuming it's going to become a phenomenon. So Richard sort of made

magic with the idea that, like, he knew there to be updates. It wasn't that he didn't think they'd make more.

Obviously, before the game came out, he had different people work on future sets.

So there definitely was this idea that more magic would happen.

So it's not like Richard didn't think more would happen.

But I don't think he understood sort of the pacing of it.

And how could he?

You know what I'm saying?

I don't think you make something that ends up being what magic became and really, I mean,

it did something that had never been done before.

So it's really hard to wrap your brain around it.

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