I am pulling away from the curb because I drop my son off at school.

We all know what that means.

It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so from time to time, I like to do what I call history podcasts,

where I take an aspect of the game and sort of walk through its evolution over time.

So today, I want to talk all about the evolution of the creature type.

Okay, so our story begins all the way back in Alpha. So when Richard Garfield made the game,

he liked the idea that the creature types, a part of the flavor of the game would be different

creatures were different kinds of things.

That this could be an elf or a goblin or a murfolk.

And the way he did that was he listed creature types.

So, to be clear, there are card types in the game.

Car types are like creature or sorcery or land.

And there are supertypes and there are subtypes.

A super type would be like basic or snow or legendary.

A subtype, each card type, and the one exception is sorceries and instance share subtypes.

Each car type has its own subtypes.

And the subtype for creatures is creature types.

Now, the way that creatures were done in Alpha, it didn't say creature on it.

It actually said summon on it. So let's say you were,

the creature was a goblin. It wouldn't say creature hyphen goblin, which is how we say now.

It said summon goblin. And so the idea was, I mean, the flavor was there. And in Alpha,

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