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

Okay, so one of the things I've been doing in this podcast is a couple of what I call meta-series, where I talk about related topics over a long period of time.

One of my meta-series is my card-type meta-asuries. So I talked about plains walkers. I talked

about artifacts. I talked about creatures. So today, instance and sorceries. So I did give

some thought to having instant and sorcery be separate, because they are their own card types.

But I realize that they're so intertwined

and that a lot of the discussions about them are so connected

that I felt I'd be repeating myself if I did them separately.

So I've decided to join them together into an instant and sorcery podcast day.

So, okay, let's go back to the beginning.

Whenever I talk about card types,

one of the things that I learned early on as an interesting

way to understand things is to go back and say, why?

Why does this thing exist?

And it's fun to just take everyday normal objects.

For example, you know, a fork, a knife and a spoon.

You know, why are these the objects we eat with?

And we sort of step back and think about it, you start realizing how you got to where

you got.

So let's do the same with instance and sorceries.

Okay, Richard Garfield, he's making magic.

Why does the game want instance and sorceries?

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