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 series. Today is designing library effects. So I'm defining

this as anything that interacts with the library in some way. So it's everything from card drawing to card filtering to tutoring to

impulsing to milling, the whole works.

Everything to interact with the library.

Okay, so we're going to start with card drawing, as that's probably the simplest way to interact

with the library.

You do it every turn.

Okay, so card drawing is something that every

color has some access to. The most obvious way is cantrips. And what a cantrip is is a card that

just says draw a card as a bonus effect. So the idea is do something and, hey, draw a card.

And the idea is it offsets the card as a cost.

Usually we do cantrip on small effects, things that, well, the reason we originally made

canterps was to allow us to do effects so small that you wouldn't net a card.

Since then, we have definitely started adding cantrip onto cards that were full cards,

but just making it more expensive.

In general, it costs about two generic mana to draw a card as a tacked-on cantrip effect.

So take any effect that you'd want to do.

Take what the effect normally costs.

Traditionally, it costs about two more.

Sometimes, it really, I think, costs like one and a half more.

So if you have something that's under-costed, sometimes we'll get away with just adding one.

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