I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. It means Mark took his daughter to camp today.

But it also means it's time for drive to work. So today, I'm going to continue a series that I started called Who's Who, where one of the things I realized is I'd like this podcast to be about the history of the game.

And to do that, I think the people are important.

That if you want to know sort of how the game came to be, it's important to the people behind the game.

So last time on Who's Who, I did what I called the first wave of R&D,

which was Richard Garfield and a lot of the early playtesters that came. So today, I'm going to do the second wave of R&D, which was Richard Garfield, and a lot of the early

playtesters that came. So today, I'm going to do the second wave of R&D. By the way, I'll let you

in the secret. I actually was going to do a different who-s-who, but I've been real busy, and I didn't

get my homework done, and I happen to know the R&D part I know off the top of my head. But my plan on future who's who's is I'm not just going to do R&D.

I want to do different sections of the company.

I just requires a little more work on my part and there's a lot going on at work.

So I will get that.

I will get to that eventually.

Okay.

So here's what the second wave of R&D was.

The first wave came, made magic, or magic had started taking off already.

Then they came, really shepherded magic during its first year or two.

But what happened was, Wizards at the time was just bursting.

I mean, not only were they doing magic, but they were doing role-playing.

They were trying to build a by...

Remember deckmaster?

Remember the word on the back of Magic Card?

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