I'm pulling my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's on front of the drive to work.

Okay, today I'm going to talk all about the storm scale.

Okay, so at some point I'm going to apply this to other things.

But today, I'm going to more talk about what the storm scale is,

why it came to be,

and then sort of walk through. I think what I'm going to do is an ongoing series is

explore different things that I've done and look at the storm scale of those things. It's

something that I started doing in my column, and I think I'm going to mirror it here on my

podcast. But first, I thought I'd spend a podcast sort of really going in depth of what the

storm scale is, so you understand.

Okay, so the history of the storm scale is on my blog, a blog tog, my Tumblr blog,

somebody asked me a question one day, and I think the question was like, what's the chance of the mechanic's storm coming back?

So for those that don't know, the storm mechanic was a mechanic that first showed up in Scourge, I believe, designed by Brian Tinsman.

And the idea behind the mechanic was that it counted the number of spells that had been cast as turn,

and then it copied that spell that many times.

So if, let's say I had a spell that did one damage to a creature or player,

if it had storm, then you copy the spell as many times as there's been spells that turn.

Okay, so sounds innocuous enough.

Turns out you can do some pretty broken stuff with it, and so storm ended up being a bit problematic.

So somebody asked me, what's the chance of storm coming back to standard?

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