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

Okay, so everybody's enjoying Lorwyn Eclipse. So I thought I would do a Lorne Eclipse themed podcast,

talking specifically about one of the two major themes. Obviously, Lorwyn's core theme is Typle.

I've done some podcasts on the history of typo.

Shadamore's main theme is Color Matters.

And I realize I've not yet done a podcast on Color Matters.

So that will be today's topic.

Okay, so as this is sort of talking about the nature of it, I like to go back to the beginning

and back to Alpha and Richard Garfield.

Okay, so let's talk back to the very beginning.

So the idea of color mechanically mattering goes all the way back to the very beginning,

to Alpha.

And I would say that Alpha, Alpha has a couple different ways that cares about color.

So let's sort of walk through those.

First and foremost, or not foremost, but first, it has a lot of color hosers.

That a lot of the definition of color is, every color, for example, has a card specifically aimed

to deal with a deck of that color.

Now, sometimes it specifically matters about color.

Sometimes it talks about the basic land type rather than the color, like Flashfire,

blows up all planes,

which doesn't mention white by name,

but if you're playing a white deck,

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