I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means.

It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so today the topic is drawbacks.

What are drawbacks?

I'm going to talk about what they are.

I'm going to talk about the history of drawbacks.

I'm going to talk about the lessons we've learned about drawbacks.

Today is everything you ever wanted to know about drawbacks.

Okay, so I guess let me start by what is a drawback. Technically speaking, a drawback is

something that is mostly something that would be considered negative. You're paying a cost

or have to do something. It's something that normally is something you don't want to be doing.

But because of this effect on the card, you often, not always, but often get a savings of

mana.

And so usually the idea is when we make a card and we take the the mana cost of the card and compare it against the stats

of the creature and the effects of the creature or the effects of the spell you know when you

take what you pay for it and all the things you get for it if the cost is cheaper than the effect, because there's something negative

associated, that is considered a drawback. And drawbacks go all the way back to the very

beginning. Richard, in fact, alpha probably over-indexed on drawbacks. The earliest drawbacks, for example, is there were a lot of upkeep drawbacks.

When an upkeep drawback is, is I get a creature or I get something, usually an alpha

was a creature.

And then every upkeep, in order to keep it around, I have to do something.

With force and nature, I had to pay mana. With Lord of the around, I have to do something. With force and nature, I had to pay

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