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Okay, I’m pulling out of my driveway! We all know what that means, it’s time for another Drive to Work.

Okay. So, I do these ahead of time, so sometimes it’s hard to plan. But if my math is correct, some time somewhat recently, I just wrote my 600th column of Making Magic. Okay, technically I had my 600th week, since not every week I write a column.

But anyway, 600 weeks is still quite the accomplishment. I have figured out that I have written two million words in my column. Two million words! Which is pretty impressive in the sense that I don’t know how many people in their life write two million words, and I managed to do it just about designing Magic in this column.

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I’m pulling out of my driveway! We know what that means! It’s time for another Drive to Work.

Okay. Two weeks ago, I started talking about the design of Mirage. And then last week I continued talking about the design of Mirage. But I was not yet done. So today is Part 3 of Mirage design. So what I started doing last week is, I started telling a bunch of stories about cards. And the idea is I’m just jumping around, the stories are all over the place.

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Okay, I’m pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It’s time for another Drive to Work.

Okay, last week I started talking about the design of Mirage. But I didn’t finish. So I’m going to continue talking about it. So for starters , I mangled the story last week. So I did a little research, to have a better understanding of what the story was. I was in the ballpark, but I made a few mistakes.

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Okay, I’m pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It’s time for another Drive to Work.

Okay. So today I’m going to talk about one of the very first sets I ever worked on. Now I did a podcast on Alliances, which is the very first set I worked on, but Alliances, like I said was, there was a billion people. I had thirteen people on the team? Something crazy? Mirage was the first team in which I was a major portion of the team.

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I’m pulling out of my driveway! You know what that means! It’s time for another Drive to Work.

Okay. Two weeks ago, I talked about—I started my Golden Trifecta series of podcasts, where I talked about the three things that I believe Richard Garfield did when he created Magic. The three awesome things he put together to make the genius that is the game Magic.

So one is the concept of the trading card game. I talked about that two weeks ago.
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