I'm pulling my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time to run.

Drive to work.

Okay, so today my topic is colorless.

Now I've had a couple podcasts before on colorless.

I had Ben White, who at the time was the counselor of colorless on the council of colors,

and we talked to philosophy of colorless. And I did another podcast on how to design for colorless on the council of colors and we talked philosophy of colorless and I did another podcast

on how to design for colorless but today is on the history of colorless so we're going to talk

through about why we do colors how it came about and sort of how it's evolved over time it's an

important tool in our tool belt and so today we'll talk all about it.

Okay, so Colus goes all the way back to Alpha.

So Richard Garfield was making magic, and he knew that one of the things that he wanted

to have was powerful artifacts, that magical items are as ingrained into the history

of fantasy as anything, and that he knew that he wanted the players as, as plainswalkers,

as mighty wizards to have access to these artifacts.

And the idea he came up with was that it'd be cool if anybody had access to it.

Like a magical item, you know, if you're learning magic,

maybe you have to learn blue magic to cast a blue spell.

But if I have a powerful, whatever, whatever magical item I have,

an orb or a sword or some magical thing.

Well, anybody could use that, right?

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