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 today I'm going to look back at the history of the fairy creature type.

Ferries actually go all the way back to Alpha, but they've been through some changes. So I'm going to talk

a little bit about kind of the history of fairies

and talk about some specific designs of fairy cards.

Okay, so to start with for fairies, we have to go all the way back to Alpha.

The very first fairy was called Scrib Sprites.

It was a single green mana and it was a one-one flying creature.

And back in the day, that was aggressive for creatures.

Nowadays, one-man-a, one-one-flyer is not that aggressive, but creatures were a bit weaker back in alpha.

And Script Spice actually saw some play.

I famously had a deck that Scripts Pryce were a big part of a blue-green deck.

And just having a 1-1-flyer for for one manna was a big deal back then.

But anyway, that was the first fairy.

It was the only fair in Alpha.

The only fairer in Alpha.

I think a lot of what Richard was doing when he made Alpha was trying to sample and say,

hey, look at all the different fantasy tropes here.

It's interesting when you look

back, there's not a lot of any one thing. I mean, in retrospect, there's a bunch of humans, but

the human creature type didn't even exist at a time. So there were, the creature types were spread

over lots of different abilities, so humans all had what they did rather than what they were. But anyway, there was one fairy. So, I mean, magic started and it said,

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