Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, today's podcast is based on a column I did many, many years ago called 25 random things about magic the gathering.

So there was a little meme that went around for a while where you were supposed to list 25 random things about you for your social media.

You would put it up on Facebook or whatever.

And I decided to do that for Magic.

So I thought today I would go through the 25 facts I talked about and give a little extra info because we have a whole podcast here.

Okay, so fact number one was Magic the Gathering for a period of time was not going to be called Magic the Gathering.

In fact, so when Richard first made the game, he called it Magic, just Magic.

But the problem was that Magic as a word, the worry was that it wasn't, they couldn't trademark it legally. And so they

were looking for a different name. So for a while, it was called Manaclash. And that was, if you

ever see, there's like an early, Wizards put on early submission, trying to people to purchase it.

And the very earliest thing they put out was it actually was called Maniclash.

Eventually, they realized that just, it wasn't as good a name as Magic.

Everybody just called it Magic.

So, like, okay, maybe the answer is, instead of changing the name, let's add something to magic.

And so the idea was that the gathering was added just so it's something

they could, you know, they could trademark. It wasn't just magic. That word onto itself was hard

to trademark, but magic, the gathering, okay, that's a unique thing. And that's how the gathering

came about. Some people have asked me why theing, which leads us into number two.

So Richard's original intent was not that Magic the Gathering was all of Magic for all time.

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