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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#514: Unstable Pre-Prelease

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

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

I traveled to Victoria, Canada, to participate in LoadingReadyRun's inaccurately named but very fun Pre-Prerelease for Unstable. This podcast is all about my trip.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.0

Okay, so today I'm going to talk all about the pre-release for unstable.

0:13.0

So basically there's a group called Loading Ready Run.

0:18.0

They are a comedy group out of Victoria and up in Canada. And they do a lot of comedy

0:29.4

things and they do a lot of game streaming and things. In any way, we have a good relationship

0:35.3

with them. They love magic. And so they occasionally make videos for us.

0:40.0

And then one of the things they do is they put on an event called a pre-pre-release.

0:44.5

So what a pre-pre-release is, is before the pre-release of an event, they have, usually

0:51.1

what they'll do is they'll bring in four guests.

0:57.1

One of the guests is usually a wizard's employee.

1:02.4

And the other three are other related people, people that do magic type things.

1:06.5

And then the four of the Loading Ready Run people play.

1:08.1

And then there's a tournament.

1:13.0

And traditionally in a pre-release, they use the actual pre-release kits. They use the actual things you would play at the pre-releases.

1:15.3

And what they're doing is, they're playing

1:17.0

with the pre-release cards before the pre-release.

1:20.5

It's after the cards are all known,

1:22.3

so there's no secrets there.

1:24.8

But anyway, so they decided that they wanted to run a pre-release for unstable.

1:31.7

Now, I've never done a pre-pre-release, but if ever I was going to do one, it was going to be

1:37.1

for unstable. So I said I would do unstable. Now, the pre-pre-release for unstable was neither

1:42.4

pre-norelease. It happened the day the set came out, so it wasn't before, and there's-pre-release for Unstable was neither pre-n't pre-release. It happened the day the set

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