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

Okay, so today I'm going to talk about Color Pie bends and brakes.

So I'm going to talk all about what exactly they are and why we do them.

And this started from the fact that I have a lot of discussions online on my Tumblr, on Twitter, on different social media, about people saying, why can't you do thing X?

And me often saying, oh, well, we can't do that. That is either a bend or a break. Well, we can do bends. Okay, let me get into what exactly I'm talking about. So, um, so a bend or a break.

So the color pie, of which I've done many podcasts on, um, one in particular they might want to

listen to if you haven't is I did back in the early days was, um, there's something I call the

golden trifecta, which is what I consider to be the three genius ideas that Richard Garfield had when he created magic.

And one of them was the mana system. One was the concept of a trading card game. And one of them was the mana system, the mana pie, the color pie, sorry.

One of them was the color pie.

And the reason the color pie is so important is a trading card game lets its users use whatever

pieces they want.

So the way Richard would describe it is let's say you're

playing chess and you could pick whatever pieces you wanted, why wouldn't you have 15 queens and a

king? Like why wouldn't you do that? Why not you just use the most powerful possible combination

you can? And the answer is that he needed to have means and ways to chop it up so that you had reasons

to separate and do different things.

Now, one of those was the mana system because different spells cost different amounts of

mana.

There's early game, middle game, and late game.

That's one way he did it.

The other is the color pie because what he said is, okay, I'm going to take this and chop it up into many pieces and five pieces.

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