4.8 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2014
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work. |
0:06.5 | Okay. So today, I thought I was going to talk about an aspect of design that overlaps with an aspect of creative. |
0:17.5 | Today, I'm going to talk about the creature type. So I'm sort of explaining what it is and |
0:23.3 | explain why it's a very interesting. Okay, so let me walk through what a creature type is. |
0:28.9 | There's a lot of interesting behind the scenes about the creature type. Okay, so on a magic card, |
0:34.6 | there is the title, there is the art, there's the card type line, there's the rules text, there's power toughness, you know, artist credit, other stuff like that. |
0:45.9 | Okay, today we're talking about the card type line, and specifically, so the car type, there are seven car types right now. |
0:53.9 | There's instance and interrupts, not interrupts. |
0:56.5 | There's instances and sorceries. |
0:57.7 | Interrupts are long gone. |
0:59.2 | There's creatures, artifacts, enchantments, land, and plains walkers. |
1:06.7 | One day, maybe I'll do a history of different car types. |
1:10.2 | But today I'm talking about creature type. |
1:12.2 | Actually, I'm talking... |
1:12.7 | So, anyway, creatures are the most common car type. |
1:16.9 | They make up, like, 55% of the cards, usually. |
1:19.7 | Okay, so every type or some type is going to have what's called a subtype. |
1:24.4 | And a subtype is a subcategory of the type. |
1:28.3 | So for creatures, we have what's called a creature type. |
1:32.2 | A creature type, for example, you guys are very aware of this, is goblin, soldier, |
1:37.6 | murfolk. |
1:39.8 | So when magic first started, in fact, instead of having the cart type creature on it, it in fact said summon and whatever the creature type was. |
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