I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

And I drop my son off at camp. Okay. So today, I'm going to talk a bit about the history of the creature type.

So technically speaking, creature types are a subtype of creature.

There is a creature subtype.

But creature types have started since the beginning of the game, and are the one element of the game that kind of really straddles the line between flavor and mechanics.

And so I'm going to talk all about the history of the creature type today.

So I'm a big fan of the creature type, and as you will see, I've been very involved in the evolution of the use of the creature type.

So we're going to talk about that today.

So today is a history day. We go back and we learn about sort of how things happen behind the scenes, and in some case in front of the scenes.

Okay, so let's begin with Alpha.

So, Creature Types go all the way back to Alpha.

Now, when the game first came out, the way they were written, it didn't say creature

or subtype, it said Summon.

So if you were a goblin, it would just say Summon Goblin.

It was done for flavor, because the idea was creatures, or you summon all the creatures.

But it was weird in that it was a, the creature cards didn't specifically say anywhere on them

that they were creatures.

Clearly they implied it.

They had power toughness.

You know, it definitely, you kind of knew they were creatures, but it didn't state that they were creatures.

And eventually, I think in, I think it was six edition rules updated it.

Updated to say that it's now that it was a creature.

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