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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1232: Spike

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is part three of a three-part series walking through the three psychographics. Today, I  explore the psychological analysis of Spike.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling away from the curb because I dropped my son off at school.

0:03.9

We all know what that means.

0:05.5

It's time for their drive to work.

0:08.3

Okay, so recently, I've been doing a series of podcasts on the three psychographics.

0:13.6

So the first one was on Timmy and Tammy.

0:15.5

The second one was on Johnny and Jenny,

0:17.0

which means the third one is on Spike.

0:20.5

Okay, so the psychographics, for those that haven't

0:24.1

listened to the other two podcasts real quickly, is a tool borrowed from advertising that talks about

0:30.4

why people want to purchase your product. Why do, so why doikes play?

0:37.8

Who are Spikes?

0:38.9

That's today's topic.

0:40.2

So the reason I did the Spike podcast last, interestingly, was Spike was the third

0:45.8

psychographic to name, and it's the only psychographic I didn't name.

0:50.4

We used to refer to as the tournament player for a while.

0:53.6

So early on, in the early days, there's Timmy, there's Johnny, and there's the tournament player.

1:01.0

And then at one point, the brand team was doing a presentation or something, and they wanted a name for the tournament player.

1:07.7

So the brand team named him Spike.

1:10.2

That's where the name Spike came from.

1:13.2

So today, we're going to get into the heart of Spike.

1:17.6

Spike, by the way, is the only one.

1:19.2

A while back when I made the names, they were very male-leaning.

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