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Okay, so today's podcast topic comes from my blog. Someone wanted me to talk about all the possible resources in magic.

So obviously, first and foremost, the main resource is mana. That's what the game runs on.

It's the core resource system.

But one of the cool things about magic is there are a lot of different ways to spend other resources.

And that mana is, while the most popular way to spend resources, not the only way to spend resources.

And so today I'm going to walk through all the possible ways to spend resources. Okay, well, first and foremost, probably the

most popular way to spend resources. I think the way I'm going to organize this is I'm going to talk by zones.

I'm going to talk about how you spend in each zone. But before I get to the zones, the one I'll

talk about that it's not a zone-based one, but it's a very popular one is life. You can do life

payments. The idea being, and life payments sometimes are by themselves and sometimes are

in conjunction with mana. That is true of all these resources today. Some of these resources can be

done independent of mana and often they're done in conjunction with mana. So life payment usually

is centered in black. Black is sort of king of life payment. Black. One of Black's

things is it gets access to most parts of the color pie, but often with additional costs that other colors don't pay.

So black has access to card drawing, but normally you're paying some costs. It's not always life, but life is the most common cost that is associated

with black drawing cards. Okay, now let's get into the zone. So we're going to start with the

battlefield. The battlefield, I think, is the most commonplace for you to have extra resources to spend.

Okay, so first and foremost, there's sacrifice. Sacrifice is the idea that I can take one of the things I have in

play and I can usually send it to the graveyard. I could technically exile it, I guess, or put it on

the bottom of a library. But essentially the idea is I have a thing.

It's going away.

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