Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, before we start today, let you know that I truck the traffic conditions, and there is an

accident on my way to work. There's a bunch of red. So, we might have a longer podcast today.

As such, I picked a topic that I've been wanting to talk about that I have a lot to say on.

The topic is bad cards.

So long ago, when I started writing my column making magic, I think the sixth column I ever wrote was a column called When Cards Go Bad.

And what happened was, when we first premiered, we started doing a thing called Ask Wizards,

which we don't do anymore.

Well, we do it occasionally.

But it was a daily feature back then.

And the idea was people asked something, and then we get a wizard's person,

we think it's the best person answer to answer it.

So one day there's a question about, like, I don't know, about why you make bad cards.

And I said, look, bad cards have to exist.

And whatever, I gave a short...

I said, this is a more complex issue, but, you know, bad cards have to exist. Anyway, a guy wrote to me, Nathan, I forget his last name, and said, what do you mean bad cards

that to exist? They don't have to exist. And I printed a letter, and the response, I wrote a letter

about why bad cards do have to exist, which became the article called when cards go bad.

I also wrote, I revisited it not too long ago to sort of do a little bit of update and talk

about it.

But this is a really important, if you care about game design, this is a very important topic,

and so I felt it was worthy of a drive to work.

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