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

Okay, so sadly, last week, Kai Buda, the greatest magic player of all time. I guess there's, you can argue a few other people, but clearly, no matter what discussion you have, and by the numbers, clearly, the best magic player of all time,

Kaibuda sadly, last week at 46, died of cancer.

And I know there's been a lot of tributes to him, and I really want to do a podcast to him.

But I have a slightly different take.

I'm a magic historian.

And it turns out, so when the pro tour first started in 1996, I was very involved with it.

I started working at Wizards in 95.

Before I come to Wizards, I'd been very involved in running tournaments because I wasn't

allowed to play in tournaments because I was writing for the duelists and doing puzzles, and I

had advanced knowledge.

So I wasn't a lot of play in tournaments.

So I did a lot of stuff behind the scenes and running them.

So when I got to Wizards and learned that Scafellius was starting a pro tour, I was

really interested in helping him.

So I was very involved.

And at the events, I sort of, I created the feature matches, and I did, I ran the feature matches for the first couple days. And then the final day, I would produce the commentary. In the

early days, I did the commentary, later days, other people would do it, but I would be producing it.

And so from 1996 to 2004, when my twins were born, and I pulled back how much traveling I was doing, I went to every pro tour.

Well, you know, with I think one exception, I skipped one for when Rachel was born.

But for eight years, I went to all the pro tours from 96 to 2004. Well, it turns out that Kai's crazy run, where he wins in a period of five years, he wins seven pro tours,

happened smack dab when I was in charge of coverage, when I was in charge of smack dab when I was in charge of coverage,

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