I'm not pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive-to-work, coronavirus edition.

Okay, so it turns out there are 35 evergreen keywords right now in Magic. So what I'm going to do is play a little game where I'm going to introduce each one of them, and we're going to talk about whether or not they appeared in alpha.

Actually, there's two things.

Did they first appear in alpha or not?

And did they first get referenced in alpha or not?

So some keywords showed up in alpha.

Some keywords essentially showed up an alpha, but didn't get labeled till later.

And some keywords did not show up in alpha.

So we're going to throw all the keywords, and I'm going to talk about what does and

doesn't qualify.

One of the things I'm trying to do is do some podcasts that I can't do in the car, and this one

requires me feeling with the database what we talk.

So this is something that I think will be a little bit fun.

Okay, we'll start with Activate.

Did the term Activate show up in Alpha?

Well, did it show up and did it get used?

Did the actual term get used and did the concept get used?

So the answer is the term itself didn't show up until 6th edition, but there were, let's see, 14 cards, channel, Clwork beast, cyclopean tomb, disrupting scepter,

dragon whelp, drain power, gloom, illusionary mask, instill energy, jade statue, netelling imp,

personal incarnation, rock hydrant, and word of command that did use activate.

Okay, attach.

When did attach for show up? Well, that one's pretty easy.

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