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

And you get Mark with his cold voice.

Okay, so today I'm going to be talking all about the turn structure.

So I'm going to go through the whole structure of the turn, but through the eyes of a magic designer.

So I'm going to talk about sort of what we design for different parts of the turn

and talk a little bit about the history of how the turn structure got put together.

So today is all about the turn structure.

Okay, so when magic began long ago, Richard made, there was a turn structure from the very beginning.

There was an order that things happen.

Then in sixth edition, where basically the rules majorly got rewritten, the turn structure got

cleaned up a bit.

So what I want to talk about today,

I mean, it's deviated a little bit since then, but basically the current turn structure,

which is made up of five phases, and then some phases have steps that are part of the phase.

So the five phases of the turn are the beginning phase, the pre-combat main phase, the combat phase, the post-combat main phase, and the ending phase.

And I'm going to be going through all the different parts.

And then, like I said, it's through the eyes of a designer.

What do we design when?

Why is that part of the turn important?

Okay, so we're going to begin with the beginning phase, apropole enough.

Okay, so the beginning phase has three steps.

It has the untapped step.

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