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

Okay, so today I'm going to address a topic that popped up in my blog.

It's actually a topic pops up from time to time, talking about the difference between artifacts and enchantments.

One of the big questions sort of is, mechanically, aren't they kind of the same thing?

And the answers they are, but we're going to go into the history

of artifacts and enchantments and talk about sort of

how, where they started, how they got created,

and how they slowly drifted to be closer to each other mechanically.

So today is all about the history of artifacts and enchantments.

Okay, so we started our story all the way back in Alpha.

So Richard Garfield makes the game of magic.

So when he first makes magic, he's like, okay,

he realizes he wants different cars to do different things.

So he creates card types, right? Land's got made because he needed a resource to do different things. So he creates card types, right?

Lands got made because he needed a resource to run the game.

Creatures were the main means of distributing damage.

Instances and sorceries and interrupts were the means to sort of cast magical spells that were short in duration.

But there are two things left that he needed to make.

One was artifacts, which represented magical items that you, the Plainswalker, could use.

And he wanted an enchantments that represented magical spells that had duration.

So that you could cast a normal spell, a sorcerer something that just did something, or you could cast a spell that lingered.

Maybe it lingered because you enchanted a creature. Maybe because you just cast a general enchantment.

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