I'm pulling out of the parking lot.

You all know what that means, or maybe you don't.

It's time to another drive from work.

Okay, so normally I drive to work.

That's why the episode is called, or that podcast, it's called drive to work.

But, so it's Tuesday today.

So yesterday I tried a new podcast topic, which I'll talk about in a minute.

I didn't like it, so I did it this morning.

I still didn't like it, but tomorrow I leave to go to Comic-Con in San Diego.

So it's my last chance.

I'm doing this on my way home because when I work through something, if I take too long off, I'll forget it again.

So anyway, my topic today was a topic for my blog. Someone

wanted to know about the hand as it relates to magic and mechanics. How do we make the hand

mechanically relevant? So that is my topic today. So anyway, I thought I would begin by talking a little bit about why is there a

hand in magic? Why does magic even have a hand? So I have talked with Richard about this. So first and

foremost, the answer is it's a card game. Card games mostly have a hand. Richard, stay true to it being a card game.

But, I guess the larger question, why don't cards have a hand? Why is that a thing? Well, it does a

couple things. One is it allows you to regulate how often you get cards, because drawing a card

every turn is important, and it gives you a place to sort of hold those cards.

There's a whole mana system, right? There's a means by which you get to sort of play the card.

So they have to sit somewhere, so the hand allows you to be able to do that.

Another real important reason that most card games have a hand is hidden information.

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