I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay. So last time we started on the design of Avicen Restored. Well, this time, we got through A,

so we're not done yet. We're going to get to B. Okay. So I'm, last time I explained sort of how the design got put together, and today I'm

talking about the cards and filling in with some more design stories.

So we're going to start with banishing stroke.

So banishing stroke costs five in a white, so six mana, it's an instant.

You put target artifact, creature, or enchantment on the bottom of its owner's library, Miracle, One White.

So the idea of miracles, remember everybody, is there's something in which you might really need them,

and the moment you draw them, they might desperately help you in some way.

And so this was designed to sort of get rid of a problem card.

Now, I'd be fair, I don't really believe that White is supposed to just remove anything

without any consequence to it.

This is one of those kinds of cards that I tend to fight and often lose on.

I believe that the key to White is the following.

White should have answers with answers, stuff like Oblivion Ring and things in which I can get rid of something, but you can answer my answer.

It can do trades where I get rid of something, but I give you something.

And when those are pushed, those are problematic, like the plowshares, but when they're not so pushed,

I think they're okay.

White sometimes can, like, deal with big guys, some of that is okay.

But I'm not a huge fan of White just being able to deal with anything, and I'm not a big

fan of White putting things on the bottom of the library. I know for commander and stuff, once upon a time, that

mattered quite a bit. But anyway, this is one of those cards that I'm like, eh, I mean, at six

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