I'm pulling out of my driveway.

You know what that means?

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay.

Two weeks ago, I talked about, I started my golden trifecta series of podcasts, where I talked

about the three things that I believe Richard Garfield did when he created magic, the three awesome things he put together

to make the genius that is the game magic. So one was the concept of a trading card game. I talked

about that two weeks ago. Second was the idea of a color pie. I talked about that last week. Today,

I'm talking about the mana system. So I'm excited for this podcast because everybody understands the genius of the trading card game.

Everybody gets the genius of the color pie.

But the mana system, not as much beloved.

So we're going to talk about that today because I feel that I want you all to have as much respect for the mana system as I do, because it is awesome.

And I think that it is much maligned.

Okay, so for starters, here's my first issue with what that is, I think people, when they look at the mana system, try to, their viewpoint is from the negative. So, for example, let's imagine I was going to try to pitch

you on cars. And I said, okay, well, cars, for starters, they create pollution. They're expensive.

You need insurance to use them. You know, your chance of dying goes way up. Lots of accidents happen in cars and there's drunk driving and, oh my God, it causes deaths

every year and accidents every year and, you know, and if you look at cars from that advantage

point, they sound horrible.

They sound horrible.

They just pollute the air and cause accidents and...

But, but, but think about society without cars.

I mean, for starters, there's no drive to work, okay? Right away, you know. But seriously, I mean,

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