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

Okay. So today I'm going to talk about one tiny piece of a magic card. And a piece that is an interesting piece, the creature type.

So obviously on a card. So one of the things is magic has seven different types of cards.

Originally it had seven and it still has seven, but it's changed a little bit. So obviously it has

incense and sorceries, it has enchantments and artifacts, it has land, it is plainswalkers,

but the one of which there's more than anything else is creatures.

And one of the things that Richard started from the very beginning of the game was the idea

of creature types, which meant that creatures had a grouping, had a subtyping to them. And so

if you cared, it just gave some extra flavor.

And even in Alpha, he actually used it mechanically.

So for example, Alpha had three what we call Lords, which are creatures that usually

grant plus one plus one in some ability.

Lords don't always have to grant plus one plus one, but traditionally people think of them

doing that.

So the three ones in Alpha were Goblin King, Lord of Atlantis,

and what was the zombie called?

There's a zombie one.

What was the zombie one called?

Zombie something.

I'm blinking on it.

Anyway, there were three that cared about a creature type.

So Goblin King cared about Gobbons.

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