The Light Before the Glass | A History of Spectral Chaos

30 years ago, Barry Reich designed a visionary Magic set that Wizards purchased but never published. Spectral Chaos was a daydream about what a game could be, long before we knew what it would become.

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📘 Chapters:
0:00 Card Kingdom
0:15 BASILISK
0:30 Prelude: Prisms
2:15 Part One: Visions
10:12 Part Two: Hypotheticals
26:39 Part Three: Realizations
41:26 Part Four: Afterlives
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46:10 The Magic Tome

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