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

Okay, so today I'm going to start talking about, I'm going to do a card by card episode. I'm going to talk about artifacts that cost zero.

There are 44 of them in the game's history. and so I'm going to start talking about them,

and just sharing stories about when and how they came about.

Okay, so first up, Alpha had six of them.

They are pretty famous.

We have what we call the Power Nine.

They are six of the Power Nine, so pretty popular.

So I'm talking about Black Lotus, Mox Emerald, Mox Jet, Mox Pearl, Mox Ruby, and Mox Sapphire.

So let's start with Black Lotus.

So Black Lotus costs zero.

They all cost zero.

So I'm going to read you the original text on it.

This is when it was first printed.

It says, add three mana of any single color of your choice to your manipole, then is discarded.

Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt, and it's a mono artifact.

So for those who don't know, in early magic, the artifacts were divided into there were mono artifacts, poly artifacts,

artifact creatures, and I think static artifacts were just called artifacts.

But anyway, the idea of a mono artifact was the tap was implied without shown.

So a mono artifact, you had a tap to use it, but it didn't have a tap symbol.

And eventually we realized that that was just confusing.

And so then on, we would start adding tap symbols.

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