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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1282: MagicCon: Atlanta 2025

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

I just got back from MagicCon: Atlanta, and in this podcast, I talk all about it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling in my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time rather drive to work.

0:05.2

Okay, I just got back from MagicCon Atlanta. So today's topic is, of course, MagicCon

0:12.6

Atlanta. Okay, so I'd been to Atlanta once before for Magic. Back in 1996, it was a, it was one of the pro tours in which the only time we ever did this,

0:25.9

they opened up Mirage, they had never seen it,

0:28.6

and then they played with it.

0:29.4

It was like a pre-release pro tour where they played limited with a format they'd never seen before,

0:34.6

never drafted before.

0:37.1

But I think that's the last time I was in Atlanta. I'd been there one other time on a personal thing, but for work, I think that's the last time I was there. So anyway, I was excited to go to Atlanta. As I talked about in my prep podcast, I had a bunch of things to do. So I'm going to talk a little bit about how the convention looked,

0:54.4

and then I'm just going to walk through my days

0:55.8

and talk about the many things that I did there because I was quite busy.

0:59.5

Okay, so it was in, I don't know the name of the convention center.

1:03.7

It's right by the Mercedes-Benz Stadium. I know that.

1:08.2

I assume it's their biggest convention center.

1:10.8

So on the bottom floor was the main hall.

1:15.0

The main hall, let's see, starting at one end, had a whole bunch of area for open play.

1:21.4

And then the other corner was the pro tour down on that end.

1:25.2

Then there was an area for retail where people could go, you know, buy various magic things.

1:32.4

Then there was an artist alley where there were infinite artists there that you could go get to sign stuff.

1:39.6

There was a family section.

1:41.9

There was a little arcade section.

1:44.8

There was a big Spider-Man section.

1:47.0

There's like the office, J. Jonah Jameson's office.

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