I'm not putting on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for the drive to work, coronavirus edition.

Okay, so I'm almost 900 podcasts in.

So I'm always looking on quirky podcast topics because I've done a lot of the low-hanging fruit.

So today I want to talk about all the cards that have Urza in its name, what I'm calling

Urza's cards.

Okay, so we're going to start in Alpha, so it goes all about Alpha.

In fact, Alpha had two cards, had glasses of Urza and sunglasses of Urza.

Glass of Urza, one mana, you may look at opponent's hand.

I'm reading you as if it was written, not the Oracle text.

And sunglasses and ursa cost three,

and said white men and your mana polk may use either as white or red mana.

So I think basically what's going on is

Richard Garfield knew that he wanted to sort of get a sense of something larger.

And so while there's no story in Alpha, there were definitely names thrown out there.

Urza being one of the names.

And Erza actually showed – I think Erza might be the only one that shows up in two cards.

Ash, Nod, Mishra.

There are a bunch of other ones that show up.

But I think Erza and there are both glasses.

One of the running jokes in the early days was that Erza had two heads.

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