I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so today's topic, I'm going to talk about the history of ally and enemy.

There's just, so basically in the game is the color pie. Everybody knows it. Look on the back of your magic card

if you somehow don't know this. There are five colors in magic. Each color has two colors

that are next to it in the color wheel. Those are its allies. Each color is two enemies. Those

are its enemies. I've done endless podcasts. I've done podcasts on individual colors on the relationship between all the colors, all that.

If you want to hear it, I've done all that. You can go listen to podcasts about it.

Today, I'm going to talk about sort of the history of how we dealt with ally and enemy, and then get into some philosophy.

And anyway, today is a history lesson.

I enjoy using this podcast partly to be,

I consider myself one of the historians of magic.

So I like to use podcasts from time to time

to walk through some of that.

Okay, so Richard Garfield makes Alpha.

And from the very beginning, he understands that there are ally and enemy.

In Alpha, he makes color hosers.

That is, things that punish the enemy colors.

Now, the only things, the only punishers that exist, the punisher cards are, I mean,

punishers the wrong word, but only the cards are hate cards that exist are things that

sort of, and the idea is when Richard first starts in Alpha, the philosophy

he took was that enemies could use the power of their enemies against themselves.

So you have like green countering blue spells and there's weird things going on there.

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