Okay, pulling on the driveway. That means it's time for another drive to work. Okay, so last time

I talked about the Golden Trifecta, and I talked about the first part of the Golden Trifecta,

which was the trading card game genre. So today, I'm talking about the second part of the Golden

Trifecta. And by the way, for those that may not have heard the last part,

Richard Garfield, when he invented magic,

I believe he came up with three awesome things

that combined together to make the awesome game we know is magic.

I call that the Golden Trifecta.

Those three things are the trading card game genre,

the mana system, and the color pie.

So today it's about the color pie.

And I'm excited because the color pie is my favorite of those three things.

Mind you, I like the other two.

Obviously, I'm doing podcasts on all of them.

The color pie to me, so if you asked me, if you said, Mark, what is the single

greatest thing to making magic the awesome game it is?

I would say the color pie, which is interesting because the other things are very important, but why?

And I think that...

So, one of the things I've often talked about is how I love psychology. I love, if you look back at, so I took a writing class a while ago, and the writing class, the teaching writing class said something awesome, which he said, if you take any author's body of work and you look

at it, you will find that they have a theme, that there's some theme, there's something that runs

through their writing, there's something they care about that is core to what they have to say as a

writer. And they say, now that you know that fact, here's another fact. You as a writer, the same thing is true of.

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