I'm pulling out the driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time with a drive to work.

Okay, so today's topic comes from my blog.

Basically the question was, why do some mechanics get names and some mechanics not get names?

What exactly, like what criteria gets us to give names to mechanics

and so that my friends is what we'll be talking about for the next 30-some minutes

okay so before I get into sort of the criteria let's talk a little bit about the history of naming mechanics.

So Alpha comes out back in 1993, and Richard decided that some mechanics just should have names.

It should be flying. It should be trample. And in Alpha, those mechanics that had names, they were not on the card.

It was actually, like, the rules explained how they work, but they weren't written on the card.

A card with flying just said flying on it.

You needed to look in the rule book to understand what flying meant.

And the student became clear that some things like flying were kind of intuitive.

Maybe people could figure that out, but like Trample is a good example where even though Trample has some flavor behind it,

the idea that you could just see the word trample and any chance of guessing exactly how it worked is the super low.

And so they started with the idea of reminder text.

We got to start telling you how things work.

So we'll give you a new name and then we'll give you a reminder text.

But since we're writing reminder text, the text for the card is already there.

And the real question was, when is it worth naming it?

When is it worth giving a name?

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