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

Okay. So often on the show I talk all about our successes, but sometimes I need to talk about our failures.

So today, I want to talk about an early version of our attempt to teach people magic that failed and failed miserably.

So today I'm going to talk about something called the arc system.

So my guess is most of you listening are going to art system.

One of the world is the arc system?

Well, that's what I'm going to talk about it today, because it's a long lost piece of magic's

past that I would like to discuss.

Okay, so let's go back to 1998.

So the idea was we were trying...

So if you ever look at the back of Magic Card,

there's a little box that says Deckmaster.

And for those that are unfamiliar,

when we first, when Magic was first created, Wizard of the Coast, not only believed that Magic was going to be a hit, but believed they had stumbled upon trading card games, and that trading card games is the whole category was going to be a giant hit.

And they wanted to be the leader in trading card games.

So what they did is they branded them and said, okay, we're going to have the deckmaster

brand of trading card games, and that way people will know it's a quality trading card game.

So we actually ended up making, I think, four games, or three games other than magic,

that fell under the deckmaster brand, if you will.

We made Jahad, aka Vampire the Eternal Struggle, Based on Vampire the Eternal Struggle, the

role-playing game. Then there was Net Runner, and then there was Battle Tech. So it turns out all

three of the IPs were talking about. IP stands for intellectual property. All three IPs were talking about stem from role playing. Because what happened was

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