I'm pulling away from the curb. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work and wrap my son off at school.

Anyway, last time I started talking about the history of the two and one. This was based on an article I wrote.

So I defined a two and one as a card that has two cards on it.

Maybe it could be on the back face, but the idea is there's two names, often two arts, two effects,

like there's two different cards on one card.

So last time I started by talking about how this all began with split cards and invasion,

flip cards in Champions of Kamagawa, double-faced cards in Inestrade, and meld cards in Eldridge

Moon.

So today we will continue our story. Okay, so the next one picks up

in Aminket. So Aminqat was our Egyptian-inspired world. In the story, Nicole Bolus had set up shop

there, made himself a god, and was slowly making

himself an internal army of zombies. And anyway, the set had a graveyard theme, and so we were

interested in playing in the graveyard theme. So we ended, we made a mechanic

called Aftermath. So the idea of Aftermath is, it's kind of like a split card and that it's two

separate cards. But the difference from a split card is a split card, you only get one and you choose

when you cast it what you get. Aftermath, you get both cards, but each card is dictated when you can cast it.

The first card, which is sort of face up in the top of the card, you can cast from your hand.

The second card, which is sideways, you can cast from your graveyard.

So the idea is essentially you get to cast both spells,

but you don't get to choose the order you cast them in.

You cast them in a set order.

Cast first one and then the second one.

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