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

Okay. Today is the third part in us talking about, or me talking about, the limited edition, Alpha, Beta, Unlimited.

Okay, so I'm talking card by cards. I'm up to C. And we got up to Circle of Protection

Black. It's an enchantment cost one in a white. And then for one manna, I can prevent all

damage from a black source. So there are five circles protection, or I should say, in Alpha,

there were four circles of protection, and in

beta there were five. Yes. So the reason I listed Circle Protection Block is it got left off the

sheet. So what happened was, early, Wizards early on was not super proficient at printing,

and made some mistakes. For example, there were two cards left off the Alpha

Press sheet, meaning they meant to have the cards. They had all the, they had the art,

and the cards were supposed to be on the sheets, but just accidentally got left off.

And those two cards were Silker Protection Black and Volcanic Island. Both are a part of

cycles, so they were very glaring in their omission.

The funny thing is I remember when Alpha came out and there wasn't no Circle Protection

Black, because I played during Alpha, I thought that it was like on purpose.

Like, black is so evil that you can't, that white can't stop Black.

Black is just too evil to protect against or something.

Now, the, Sea, Volcanic island was a rare and so i mean i think i'd seen one or two of the dual ends but i know i couldn't

understand there was one missing i just didn't have enough cards to be able to see that uh but the circle

protections they were common you noticed it right away um and so when beta came out, in fact, what Beta did is it corrected a bunch of mistakes.

There were a lot of misprints on the Alpha Sheet.

I'm going to talk about a bunch of them during this series of podcasts.

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