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

Okay, so today, in the last podcast I did, I talked about the Council of Colors, and I said,

one day I did a podcast on the Council of Colors. And then today I realized that should be today.

So today is going to be all about the Council of Colors.

So I'm going to explain sort of what it is, where it came from, how it works.

And one of the things that I'm hoping you'll see today is I'm going to go real deep on one little,

kind of aspect of something we do at Wizards, just to give you the idea of how much things matter

and how much infrastructure will be built to make sure that we're

paying attention to things.

Okay, so the Council of Color.

So, for those longtime listeners in my blog, you clearly know that I love the Color Pie.

And I did, in fact, I did an entire podcast on the Color Pie, the importance of the Color Pie.

I did a three-part series long ago about what I call the golden trifecta,

which are the three things, the genius ideas that Richard Garfield created when he first made magic.

One is the idea of a trading card game.

The second is the mana system, and the third is the color pie. So let me, I'm just

do a real short version of the color pie. There's a whole podcast if you want the full drawn-out

version. To me, the color pie is the core of the identity of the game. That Richard came up

with the idea of there was five colors of magic. And I explained in my podcast about the importance of it.

The Color Pie mechanically does a lot of important things about

allowing you in a trading card game to have different things,

of different power, and the man assist and make sure that you can't play them all on the same deck.

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