I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive from work.

Okay, so this morning I did a podcast and it was good. I probably could have used it. But all day I've been nagged me. I feel like I could do it better.

So I decided I'm doing it on the way home. So you get a special drive from work today.

Okay, so the topic today is the very first ever pre-release tournament.

So we're going back to 1995, June 3rd and 4th of 1995.

It's the Ice Age pre-release.

So it is the very first pre-release of its kind, and it was a singular event.

Like nowadays, you go to a pre-release, there's lots of places you could go.

But if you wanted to go to the Ice Age pre-release, you were going to Toronto, Canada, because that was the only place it would be.

So today I'm going to talk all about the historic event of the very first pre-release.

I was there.

I will tell some stories and I will sort of fill you in.

So before we're done today, you will know everything there is to know about the Ice Age pre-release.

Okay.

So before we get into the actual pre-release, I want to do a little background,

a little setting up. Part of understanding magic history is understanding context. So, okay,

so in 1993, at the summer of 1993, magic comes out at JamCon. I started playing shortly thereafter.

I went to, I had heard about it.

I was working at a game store.

People kept coming and asking about it.

Eventually, I tracked it down at a game convention, not too much longer, and I started

playing magic.

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