I'm not playing 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 talk all about equipment.

So it is an artifact subtype that we made back and mirrored in and has since become evergreen.

So I'm going to sort of talk about how we made it, how it became evergreen, and just some of the challenges that we've had along the way with equipment.

Okay, so our story begins, actually our story begins before Meriden. If you go back into early magic,

for example, like flying carpet was in Arabian Nights. And even if you go back

to Alpha, I mean, clearly there were objects that existed in early magic that were representing

of things you would use or things your creatures would use. The reason I use flying carpet is

flying carpet had a template where you could tap it,

and as long as it stayed to tap, the creature that had it gained flying.

Now, flying carpet also had this thing where if the creature died, you lost the flying

carpet.

But we did a bunch of mechanics in early days where there were things that

represented the creature making use of it. We had a couple different weapons and things,

but essentially the idea was we really liked the idea that wouldn't it be cool to give your

goblin a sword, you know, to be able to give something to your creatures.

And so early magic had bounced around with that idea. We definitely had cards that kind of

mimicked, you know, your creature got to care about it. There were definitely cards that story.

And the template we tended to use was you would tap it and pick a creature, and as long as they'd tap,

that was true of the creature, and then if it ever became untapped, you could choose not to untap

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