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

Okay, so today is the history of the morph mechanic.

So for those that do not know, let me first explain what the morph mechanic is, and then I will walk through its history.

The morph mechanics is a mechanic that first showed up an onslaught, then time spiral, then

Kanzatark here.

I will go through all that today.

It's a mechanic that allows you to spend three mana to play a card from your hand face

down while it's in play.

It's a colorless 2-2 creature.

And then you can pay the morph cost to turn the card face up to

become whatever it normally is. That is a morph mechanic. There's some various of it and other stuff

I will get to, but that, let me start by saying that. So where exactly, how exactly did the

morph mechanic begin? So to do that, we got to go all the way back to Alpha.

So there were two cards in Alpha that Richard Garfield made.

One was called camouflage, and the other was called Illusionary Mask.

And both cards played around with, my creature is a mystery.

I turn it face down. They don't know what it is. So the way it worked

is early on, the rules when they first came out, like I remember playing with camouflage,

the rules were you only told your opponent information that was necessary when they interacted

with it.

So, for example, let's say I play with, I camouflage a creature and they go, okay, I cast terror on it.

So terror destroy target non-black, non-artifact creature.

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