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

Okay. So today, recently, Brian David Marshall, recently for me, that is, Brian David Marshall wrote an article where he interviewed a lot of old pros about the beginning of limited.

And I thought that was a fascinating topic,

and so I'm stealing it for my podcast.

So this is sort of a companion piece,

if you've read that article.

I'm going to give you sort of limited from the perspective of wizards,

of R&D, people behind the scenes,

and sort of talk about a lot of the events that that article covered,

but from my perspective and, you know, R&D's perspective.

Okay, so first we go to the way back machine to 19, I don't, 91, 92.

So the question is, when did limited first start?

And the answer is it started before the game was released.

So it turns out that the playtefters, among the playtexters, was Bill Rose, who was our current VP of R&D.

Bill and I have worked together for 20 years.

He and I were hired the same month back in October of 1995.

And we worked a long time together.

I mean, we still work together.

And so Bill and I had some interesting chats about,

I was trying to figure out the origin to drafts.

Where did drafting begin?

And it turns out that I think Bill is responsible.

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