I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay. So this week, Gavin went on to our normal streaming show on Magic and talked about some possible changes for Commander. One of the things he talked

about was possibly changing how the hybrid mana works in Commander. And he mentioned that we

had the Commander committee at Wizards a month or two ago, and while we were there,

I was the one who gave the speech about why we'd like to change how Hybrid Manor works in Commander.

So what I wanted to do today was walk through the talk that I gave the Commander Committee

talking about why I think is important

and why I recommended we make the change. Because I want all of you to sort of hear and listen

to the reasoning that was so important to me. So that is today's topic. Why I believe manna should work differently than it currently does

in Commander.

Okay, so to start with, I began by telling the story of hybrid creation.

I am the creator of hybrid mana.

So the story goes back to 2002, I believe.

I think I said January of 2004.

I was tasked.

I just become head designer in the middle of Chamisagawa block.

So this was the first block that I was head designer.

And we had tagged this block. So this was the first block that I was head designer. And I, we had tagged this block as being a return to multicolour. The very first block, the multicolor block was invasion. And that was

the start of the third age of design where we started feaming our blocks. And so we did a block that was a multicolored block, and then we did a graveyard block,

and then we did a typo block, and then we did an artifact block, and now we were back to

multicolor. We returned to multicolor first. It's both the first theme we did and the first

theme we returned to because we knew how popular multicolor was. Players enjoy multicol. The challenge was, it was like four years later, I

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