I'm pulling away from the curb because I dropped my son off to college.

We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so today I'm going to talk about designing typel cards and typel themes.

So real quickly, what do I mean by that? What does typel mean?

So typel is a word we use internally to talk about cards that

care mechanically about creature types. Now, the term we used to use was tribal. Tribal actually

meant two things, caring about creature types or there was an actual card type. The car type tribal since become kindred.

Today's podcast, not about kindred, but it's about the typal themes.

So when we changed over the word, we broke into two different words just so we can talk

about a different concept.

So typel is not talking about the theme, kindred's the card type.

Maybe one day I'll do...

Actually, I think I have done a podcast on Kinderer, back when it's called Tribal.

Okay, so today is all about designing for creature type matters, basically.

Okay, so first off, what I find when I'm talking about my design topics is usually we have to split them into constructed and limited.

Sometimes they overlap, sometimes they overlap less.

This is a good example where designing typel for constructed and typo for limited, while there are overlaps have a lot of big differences.

So I'm going to start with constructed because constructed designs are usually a little easier

in concept.

I mean, there's a lot of execution issues, but we're limited as a lot more moving pieces.

Okay, so if you're designing a typal card for constructed, the first question you have to ask

yourself is, what is the card doing and there are a couple

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