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Okay, last time I started talking about zero-cost artifacts. There were 44 of them. I talked about 21 of them.

So we have 23 more to talk about. So let's hop to it and talk more about the design of zero-cost artifacts.

Okay, so we've made it all the way up to, what is this? This is Stronghold.

Mox Diamond. Okay, so Mox Diamond caused zero. Oh, as a reminder, for those that didn't lose my last podcast, I'm reading them as they were printed, just because I find it entertaining to hear as they were printed.

So, artifact, when Mox Diamond comes into play, well, we used to be, when Max Diamond comes into play,

well, we used to be into the battlefields, comes into play.

Choose and discard a land card or sacrifice Max Diamond.

Tap at one man of any collard tree manipole, play this ability as a manor source.

Okay, so what we see now is our first attempt to make,

I guess we made Lion's Eye Diamond and Lotus Petal, which were us trying to make different versions of a black lotus. Mok's diamond is the first time we try to redo the moxes.

And the lesson here, it's always the same lesson. Zero cost things that provide mana are just

good. Mok's diamond ends up being very good.

So when we try this time, we're saying, okay, we're going to make you discard a land card, right?

So you have to be able to discard a land.

And so, okay, that's, you know, it's not just this one card.

It costs two cards, one of which has to be a land um

and like okay so that's you know that it's not just uh the moxes of old you know it's a it's a real cost

you have to discard a land well turn one when you have a land you have some land in your hand um

and this provides mana so losing the land so you can get the mana you have some land in your hand. And this provides mana.

So losing the land so you can get the mana.

You're not, you know, anyway.

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