I'm not pulling out of my car. We all know what that means. This is another driver-in-work coronavirus edition.

So I've interviewed people from all across Magic. So today I have Blake. So Blake introduced

yourself. Yeah. My name is Blake Rasmussen. Technically my job title is senior communications manager, but a lot of people know me as the guy who runs daily MTG and also does our weekly stream weekly MTG.

Okay, so the question I've been asking a lot of people is, how did you start playing magic?

I started playing magic when I was 13 or 14, so I'm 37 now for context.

What set was it?

Just first that people have an idea of...

Yeah, Ice Age.

Ice Age was my first set. 94 was yeah i was uh in our junior high

cafeteria and my friend matt uh was sitting with myself and our other friend brian and he had

these ice age starter decks and he's like you guys want these and he he sold them to us

because he wasn't that good a friend and uh we we bought him we started shuffling him up and learning

how to play poorly at first but kind of the three of us played a bunch and then uh brian and i

especially played a lot together,

and it kind of went from there.

What was the best, do you remember the best thing you had in your opening deck, your first deck?

Oh, man.

The two cards that stand out in my memory, and I don't remember the whole thing, so it's entirely

possible, like I had a necropin and sitting in there that I ignored.

But I definitely owned a pirate ship

and a Keldron Frostbeast.

The Frostbeast was like the gold version

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