I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means.

It's time to drive to work. And I've dropped my son off at camp again.

Okay, so for today, I'm going to go back in the Wayback Machine and talk about...

So magic... I talk about how magic constantly evolves.

And one of those parts is the rules, that the rules of magic keep changing.

And that while the basic rules are the same, you know, if you played an alpha and then you

played, you know, 23 years later, a lot of it works, a lot of what you would know works.

But not everything.

And so today I'm going to talk about some of the discontinued rules.

That's some things that once upon a time you could do in magic, but you can no longer do.

And so first, before I get there, let me philosophically explain what's going on.

Why are there things in the rules that we abandon?

Why do we change things?

Well, obviously we change things, but why do we abandon things?

Why are the things that used to work and no longer work?

And the answer is, one of the big issues I always talk about is I think magic's number one problem

of all its issues. It's a great game. It's amazing. It's cool. It's fun.

There's all sorts of awesome things about the game. But its biggest

flaw, or Achilles heel, if you will, in my book, is

it's what we talk about, the ability for to to learn it um the uh what do i call

it um see sometimes i'm driving and i have a term i use every single time and then i'm blinking

the term uh we talk about the ability to access the game what's the term i'm like anyway it

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