I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work at home edition.

So today I want to talk about a concept that's very important to magic that's a little on the complex side, card advantage.

So what I've done is I got an expert, Brian Weissman, long-time pro player, creator of the deck, one would argue, the first

ever recorded deck that took advantage of card advantage, to come talk about what is card

advantage. So, hey, Brian. How's it going, Mark? Thanks for having me on. Okay, so this is going to be

like a waiting pool where a zero entry pool, where we're going to

start very shallow, and then as we go along, we'll get to the deep end.

So we're not going to start in the deep end, but we will get there.

Okay, so Brian, yes.

In simplest terms, what is card advantage?

In simplest terms, Mark, card advantage is simply the idea that the easiest, almost deterministic route to winning a game of magic is to dominate your opponent in resources, specifically in the resources of cards, either by destroying more of their cards for fewer of yours,

or more simply by drawing more cards than your opponent.

And the essential idea that if you accomplish that, winning the game becomes inevitable,

regardless of their strategy and generally regardless of your strategy.

Okay, so let's just walk through some simple examples.

Okay, so let's take walk through some simple examples. Okay, so let's take divination.

Okay, so divination, you spend mana, you draw two cards.

So you've spent one card, but you've drawn two cards.

Precisely.

And, I mean, drawing cards is the kind of of the most simplest version of card advantage, right?

I spent one card, I got more than one card.

Precisely.

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