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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#459: Early Magic Trivia

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

🗓️ 4 August 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is dedicated to Magic trivia, focusing mostly on trivia from the early days of the game.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

My daughter forgot her computer. I had to drop it off at school. But I'm now leaving her school, which is actually slightly farther away into my home.

0:14.0

So you get a little extra, or though I'm going to work today because Rachel had her internship.

0:17.0

But anyway, I think you get slightly more content today. So today,

0:21.6

so there's something that I've always loved about magic that I've always been very

0:26.1

involved with, which I want to talk about today, which is magic trivia. So I had, ever

0:33.0

since I was a little kid, just been obsessed with trivia. I love trivia. I had books upon books upon books on trivia as a child.

0:41.2

And I would memorize just obscure facts of little like, like, what would was Pinocchio made out of?

0:47.4

You know, stuff like that. Pine, by the way.

0:50.1

So anyway, I, obviously, once I fell in love with magic, I wanted to combine my love of magic with my love of trivia.

1:00.0

So one of the very first things I started doing for magic.

1:03.0

This is before I even worked for wizards is I used to run trivia shows in Los Angeles, back when I lived in Los Angeles.

1:09.0

And then, once I started working for wizards, I started running for Wizards.

1:12.7

I used to do them in all the pro tours I went to.

1:14.7

In fact, I went to eight years of pro tours.

1:17.4

Every Saturday night was, we started calling it question mark, which was official trivia.

1:23.8

And the way it used to work is you'd have teams of three and then I would

1:29.0

ask questions and I would, there basically was sort of Swiss rounds, where I would ask

1:34.5

questions and then your team would answer the questions and then we would trade papers

1:39.0

after I asked the whole series of questions and grade. And then the ones that, the eight that got

1:43.9

the highest

1:44.5

grades on it would come off to the top eight, and then we would do face off face where I would

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