I'm not putting on the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work at home edition.

So it is snowing today. So normally I would have been driving to work, but I'm not because there's lots of snow. And I live on a hill.

So anyway, I thought I would do... It's easier to do card referencing when I'm at home than I am in the car, so I thought I'd talk a bit about the history of something, and then with lots of access to cards.

Okay, so today I'm going to talk about the history of artifact destruction.

So the interesting thing about artifact destruction is we eventually came to some terms on what did things where.

But there was a lot.

It is not, it took a while for us to get there.

We did not start, like a lot of the history of early magic and artifact destruction,

we're trying lots of different things.

We're kind of all over the place.

So I want to sort of walk through and talk a little bit about where we're at and what we did

and how we eventually got to some conclusions.

But it took us a little while to get there.

Okay, so when Alpha comes out, there are three cards in Alpha that can destroy an artifact.

Two of which are common, and one of which is an artifact.

It's rare.

But I'll get to that one in a second.

So the two commons is you have disenchant,

one in white, destroyed targeting artifact or enchantment, and sent chatter. One in a red,

destroyed target artifact. First off, by the way, before I get to the artifact, something very

interesting about this. So if you look at the actual text and the actual cards printed in alpha, the original rules text for disenchant is target enchantment or artifact must be discarded.

And the text for Shatter is Shatter destroys target artifact.

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