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

Okay. So today, I'm going to be doing a podcast based on an article I did for our 20th anniversary.

So what happened was when Magic turned 20 in that week, we had articles all tying into

the number 20.

And so I did 20 things that were going to kill magic.

Tongue planted firmly in cheek.

So basically what I was talking about was what are the big controversies in magic history

where people were like, this is it, this is going to be the end of magic, the things that, you know, what were the real controversies

of the game? And so today, and probably beyond just today, since I've 20, I want to talk about,

to kind of give you a more in-depth on what exactly happened. Now, I have 20 things to get through,

so I'm going to try to go quickly here since we've a lot to cover.

So number one, the introduction of 60 card decks and four card deck limits.

Okay, so when Magic first began, the rule was you had 40 cards and you could play as many

cards as you wanted.

You guys might know this rule as the limited rules.

Essentially, when Richard made the game, I think his thought process was that people were going to have the amount of cards

not too dissimilar from what limited is now. That, you know, how much were you going to spend?

Oh, you know, you'll buy a starter and a couple, the Magic First Started. Starters were 60 card decks.

And so you would start with like a starter and maybe a couple boosters.

But like you would have, you know, about maybe six boosters worth of cards, which is what we play with limited now.

And so the original deck instructions were actually very, very similar to limited deck

instructions.

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