I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

Coronavirus edition. Okay, so a while back, I did a series where I went through every year of

magic and I talked about all the things that happened in that year. And I started in 1993,

and I got up to 2015. Anyway, I'm going to occasionally continue on.

Enough years gone by that we have a few years under us.

So today, I'm going to do 2016, the next in the series.

So these podcasts are meant kind of a little nugget of history.

So if you ever want to sort of get a sense of what magic did, that's why I did these podcasts.

So anyway, let's start with 2016.

So we're going to go chronologically.

Okay, so January 16th was the pre-release, and January 22nd was the release of Oath of Gatewatch.

Code named Sweat.

I think this was blood, sweat, and tears. We'll get tears in a second.

So anyway, it was 184 cards, and it had a couple new mechanics, so three new mechanics.

Cohort. So it was an ally mechanic, and it only went on allies, and you had to tap that creature

plus another ally, and then an untapped ally, and it only went on allies, and you had to tap that creature plus another ally,

and then an untapped ally, and it would generate an effect.

The flavors of, like, the allies working together.

There was support, and support always had a number with it.

So what support N meant is put plus and plus McCondonors on up to N creatures.

Interestingly, for most, almost all of the both design development of the set,

you originally put N plus-un-plus-un-mon counters and or loyalty counters on creatures or plainswalkers.

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