I'm pulling on the driveway. You know what that means? It's time for another drive to work.

Okay. So today, I'm going to talk about the story of magic. Actually, I'm going to talk about the story of the story of magic.

So today is not about the story itself, but about the different means and ways we've tried to tell the story over time.

So it's a history of the story rather than actually the story.

There's a lot of story, and maybe one of these days I will do podcasts about different parts of the story,

but today is more of a history thing about how the story has been done.

So we'll begin.

We go way back to Alpha.

So when Richard Garfield first made the game, Alpha didn't have a lot of story in it.

It had a bunch of names.

Erza had some glasses, and he had some sunglasses.

Apparently he liked vision wear. Mishra had an

Ankh. You know, there were, a Nevin'n-Role was there, he had a disc. I mean, there were people

mentioned, but other than people mentioned, there wasn't any inherent story. The flavor

text didn't really come together to tell you any larger story. There were characters mentioned.

So the first expansion was Arabian Nights.

That did have story, but not magic story.

That really was just taking famous stories from Arabian Nights,

you know, Sinbad and Aladdin, and bringing those to life.

But the second expansion called Antiquities,

now that, my friends, that's where we begin.

So what happened was, back in the day,

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