I'm not pulling out of the driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive-to-work, coronavirus edition.

So I've been doing fun interviews with different people involved with Magic, and I got a great one today.

So I'm here with Eric Lauer.

Say hello, Eric.

Hello.

So what do you do?

First, let's tell the audience what exactly you do on Magic?

So I'm the head of final design. So you come up, are the head of creating the vision of what it is and what we're making. And I work on how can we bring your vision to life in the most practical way.

Yeah, the metaphor I always use is that my team is more like the architects making

blueprints, making architectural plans, and then Eric's team has to actually build the house.

Right.

Okay, so Eric, let's start what I've been asking everybody.

I want to know, how did you get into magic?

How did I get into magic? Well, get into magic well i was at carnegie mellon and

there was a local game shop and some people bought some cards and it looked fun so i started playing

and at first we were basically playing multiplayer and then got bored of waiting for everyone's turn to come around, so we started playing two-player.

So that's how we got to do magic.

So how long was it between you starting to play two-player games and the Pro Tour?

What was the gap there?

Wow.

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