I'm pulling out the parking lot, so we all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work.

And I drop Rachel off at an internship. Okay. So today, I want to talk about something I did on the website.

I want to sort of explain the story behind how it came to be and talk about why it's a very important tool for all you amateur designers out there.

So the item I'm talking about is the mechanical color pie.

So let me talk about what exactly the mechanical color pie is

and talk about how it came about to actually be an article.

So what I did was I went through on every ability I could think of and now I missed a few

and people are sending into me.

The plan is I'm going to update it.

I'll get to that.

But anyway, I wrote down every single ability in magic that I can remember.

And for each ability, I said what the primary color was and then secondary tertiary. I'll get to a second list definitions.

And then what I did is basically for every ability in magic, I explained what color gets them

and how.

And then I put them in a list, and then down below I talk about them, and I talk about examples

and those are exceptions and certain rules for how it gets used, but I laid out in one 12,000 word article sort of exactly what colors do why.

I, for the first time ever, laid out the mechanical color pie.

Okay, so let's talk a little bit about why did it take 20-some years for me to do that.

So here's the story behind the article, which is, the Magic Color Pie, and I did a whole

podcast on why the Color Pie is important. Today is more about how it works, not why it's

an important thing, but more of the technical things behind it.

One of the things that's very important in magic is obviously magic has five colors,

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