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

Okay, so today is another in my designing blank series where I talk about how we design a certain

aspects of the game, basic effects that we do. My first one I did was called designing

counterspells. That one, as far as I'm concerned, just came out my timeline. And you guys

seem to like it. So I'd already done a designing drug damage. So today I'm doing designing

destruction. So the idea of today's is I'm going to talk about anything that destroys something.

I will say one of the, in general, divvying up magic mechanics gets complex

because there's a lot of different ways you can divvy them up.

So today I decided I'm just going to stick to effects that destroy something.

I'll touch upon some other things because when I talk about it,

it's kind of hard not to hit some other things. But I'm going to try as much as I can to more focus on spells that destroy things.

Literally the word destruction is in the spell name. So that's what I'm focusing on today.

Okay, so let's start with destroying creatures. Okay, so the king of destroying creatures is black.

Black is the color that just straight up gets destroyed target creature.

So let's start by talking a little bit about the history of black and destruction,

because I like mixing my history in when I do these.

So Alpha, the original version of magic, had a spell called Terror.

And Terror said, destroy target, non-artifact, non-black creature.

And the reason behind it was the idea was you were scaring somebody to death.

And, well, the idea was if they're a black creature,

well, they're used to this crazy stuff,

and it's hard to scare them.

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