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Okay, so at Chicago, MagicCon Chicago, I did a talk called the 20 greatest mechanics of all time,

where I talked about my pick from the top 20 mechanics.

So I was planning to turn this into my assumption

will be two podcasts, but we'll see. And the actual speech I gave is online on YouTube.

You can watch it. So I'm going to, whenever I do the same content in a different form,

I try to, I'll throw some other stuff in. So it'll be a little bit different than the actual talk I gave. But I'm going to go through my top 20 and talk about

sort of why and how I picked them and what I care about them and why these are the top mechanics.

Okay, so real quickly, let me start by saying, I set some parameters for me when I decided to do the talk.

Parameter number one is I decided no evergreen mechanics.

I did make a top 20 evergreen mechanic list.

I'll probably do a podcast on that on some point.

But there were just too many things that would be there.

And it just didn't seem like the best

route of this was just a here's a tough for mechanics and half of them are every green mechanics

didn't seem like so I discounted every green mechanics um I didn't do anything that I think of as

being tools so that means no manis, no card frames, no templating.

Manna symbols would be like hybrid mana or Frexian mana.

Frames would be stuff like adventures or split cards or things in which is this a completely different frame to make it work.

And templating might be like what we call anchor words.

We're like choose dragons or cons.

Those are all, those all have mechanical elements to them,

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