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Okay, guys, today I'm going to talk all about restrictions. So the impetus of this podcast is

we've started using this ability can only be used once per turn a lot more on activated and triggered abilities.

And people have talked about it. Why are we doing that? So I thought I talked a little bit today, or my whole topic of today, is talking about when we do spells and abilities, what are the restrictions we do on them? And why do we do them?

So I basically divided it into four buckets today.

There's four sort of larger categories of restrictions.

Those categories are additional costs, timing restrictions, use restrictions, and condition

restrictions.

And I'm going to walk through all that and explain them.

And then I'm going to sort of talk about why.

Why do we bother to put restrictions on?

Okay, so the first thing I want to explain is I'm talking today about spells and abilities.

So spells is anything, obviously, you cast usually from your hand, sometimes from other places like the graveyard.

Abilities, there's three kind of abilities.

There's static abilities, which is just something that's always on.

There is activated abilities where you have to pay some cost, usually mana.

And there are triggered abilities are when a certain

thing happens or at a certain time, those things will happen. And so today I'm talking about

the restrictions apply to all of those, all spells and abilities. Basically, the idea is,

hey, I have a spell or ability, you know, should there be some cost in using it? Should there be some limitation to how to use it?

So that is the topic today. Okay, so first of us talk about additional costs. So what that means is

sometimes in order to get a spell or in order to get an ability, you need to pay an additional cost.

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