The Role of Timing in Magic

In early magic, Richard made something called circles of affection. He wanted you to be able to say, hey, this combat no tricks. I'm going to cast a spell and then for all of combat, nobody's allowed to cast aspell. But interestingly, and then my intent of it was, okay, well now you can't cast giant growth. Because you couldn't do anything during combat, it also meant you couldn't activate things during combat. And the idea for me was, okay,. if I attack with my 3-3 and you have a 2-2, I know I'm going To win that fight because you can'tCast anything during it. It sort of said