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

Okay, so today is all about milling. Okay, so for those that might not know what milling is,

milling is when you take the top, some number of cards off a library and put it into its owner's library.

Milling is slang. It comes from mills. a library and put it into its owner's library.

Milling is slaying.

It comes from millstone, but we'll get to that.

I'll explain where the slain came from and all that.

Okay, so, milling was not in alpha.

There was no card in alpha that made people put the top card of the library into the graveyard.

But the source behind it actually does go all the way back to Alpha, which is Richard Garfield was making the game.

And what he realized was, is there was a wind condition in the game.

You need to do 20 damage.

But Richard realized that there was potential that something could happen.

A board stall could happen, or all the creatures get wiped out,

or there could be a situation that could come up

where nobody could do 20 damage to the other player.

And the question was, okay, well, what do I do about that? What happens

when we wrath away all the creatures or whatever? For whatever reason, neither player can do 20

damage to the other player. And Richard's like, okay, I need an answer to that because if that

happens, I don't, I don't want it to be, and the game never ends, and, you know.

So he came up with the idea, well, what if the deck, when it got completed,

meaning when, so the actual rule was, when you draw a card, every turn you have to draw a card,

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