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Okay. Well, today's topic is legendary. Literally, it's legendary. I'm going to talk all about the legendary supertype and where it came from and how we designed it.

So let's start from the very beginning. Okay, so, legendary, or legends, first

appeared in the third Magic expansion called Legends. So it was designed by a guy named Steve

Connard. So when Magic first started hitting big, Richard had gone and asked all his play test groups to start making sets.

And from that, you get Ice Age, you get Mirage, you get Spectral Chaos that went into invasion.

Anyway, Peter Ackison also went to some of his friends and asked them to start making sets.

So one of the people he talked to was Steve Conard.

Steve Conard and Peter Atkinson were old-time role-playing buddies,

that they played a lot of role-playing games together.

And so what Steve was inspired to do when he made a set was he wanted to use a lot of the flavor

from different role-playing games they had played. So his idea was he wanted to introduce a lot of characters, and not just any characters,

but characters specifically that they had played in their role-playing sessions, either directly

or as NBC's.

Non-player characters for those non-role players out there.

So the idea is he wanted to represent them as being unique things.

Now, no, Richard in Arabian Nights, which is the first expansion, did have unique characters

in the sense that here's Aladdin.

Here are characters from the tales of Arabian Nights that were clearly individual singular characters.

But he didn't mechanically differentiate them.

So what Steve did is he said, okay, I'm going to tag them to say, these are special.

These are one of a kind.

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