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

Okay. Today, I'm going to tell a design story, but the design story, the very first design story.

I'm going to start talking all about alpha slash beta.

So bits and pieces.

I've definitely told elements of the story before,

but I'm going to try to get a little more the design element of the story.

Okay, so to recap, the classic magic story.

So Richard Garfield and his friend, Mike Davis, came to Wizards of the Coast because they were trying to sell Richard's game Robo Rally, which is an awesome game if you never played it.

Robo Rally was too expensive to make, and Peter Ackison, the CEO then of Wizard of the Coast, said that he's more interested in a game that can be made on cards that

could be played quick, something to be played in between role-playing

sessions. Richard

said he had an idea and

went off to try to make this game. So

I think what happened is

a little history on Richard,

Richard Garfield.

So Richard was, at the time, a math professor...

Or actually, was he a professor yet?

I think he was actually in school when...

Because he was at the University of Pennsylvania

is where he met a bunch of the other playtefters um and so he um

he uh sorry about that little traffic stuff trying not not to get an accident while i drive um

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