Nerd Tutorial Podcast

Topic: Magic: The Gathering This week, we’re diving in to our first real game that we’ve ever talked about on the show. We plan on talking about other games, notably Fortnite/PUBG, Warcraft, and sometime in November, I want to do a buyer’s guide for nerds. But this week we’re talking about Magic: The Gathering, a long running collectible card game with lots of history in the nerd world. Tutorial HistoryOriginal concept and idea created by Richard Garfield. Worked as an Adjunct Professor at Whitman College in 1991, while working his doctorate in mathematics as University of Pennsylvania. He approached Wizards of the Coast about producing a different game, but was asked to make a game that was portable to play. This developed in to Magic: The Gathering. Originally known for testing purposes as “Magic”, but after trademarking “Mana Clash”, people continued to call it magic. It was rebranded as “Magic: The Gathering”, in order to copyright and secure the name. Released in 1993, it was an immediate success and sta