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

Okay. So, this year at the World Championships in Amsterdam, I did a little segment called 20 years and 20 minutes, where I sat down and I basically talked about the magicist 20 years of history,

having one minute to talk about each year.

And, well, that was fun and an interesting exercise.

I realized that I had a lot more to say about each year.

So I've decided to start a new

meta series, and this is truly a mega, a mega series. This is truly a mega mega series. I'm going

to do a podcast for each year of Magic's life to talk about what happened that year. Now,

I'm just going to do this every once in a while.

Being that I have 20 years to do, and as I do this, other years will roll by, this is probably

a multi-year podcast project, which means I'm dedicated to keep doing this for many, many more

years.

So today, I'm going to start with 1993, where it all began for Magic the Gathering.

Technically, there's stuff that happened before 1993, but I decided we'll start with the public's

interaction with Magic, not necessarily behind the scenes. So, today is all about Magic's first year of life, as a released product, I guess.

So a little bit of preamble, and then I'm going to kind of start with Magic's public life, not its behind-the-scenes life.

Okay, so here's what's going on.

The real quick story, I've told the story before, is Richard Garfield and his best friend

Mike Davis come to Wizards of the Coast to try and pitch a game that he, they had,

that Richard had made, called Robo Rally.

It's way too complex a game for a small company like Wizard of the Coast to make.

It's got too many pieces and such.

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