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

And I had to drop my son off at camp. Okay, so today is all about zones. So magic has many different zones.

And I'm going to talk all about the different zones today. And sort of, it's just a different way to think of the game.

So there are six major zones in the game of magic,

and then there's a couple extra ones that are relevant in other places.

Okay, so what are the six zones of magic?

So first off, there is your library or your deck.

It is where you draw from.

So depending on the format, there's a certain number of cards that have to start in your library.

60 is normal, but Commander has 100.

There's different formats that require different amounts.

Your library is flavored as sort of your mind.

Not your current thoughts, we'll get to that, that's the hand, but just like your repository

of memories and your just whole base of knowledge.

It's what you know, what you as a person know.

The library got its name back in the beginning.

This is one of the zones that has always had the same name.

Some of the zones will get to have changed names.

But the library has always been known as the library.

When Richard made the game,

he wanted to give the zones flavorful names, and so instead of calling it the deck,

which is what a lot of generically card games would call it, he calls it the library.

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