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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#750: Skaff Elias

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

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week's podcast is an interview with Skaff Elias, one of the original playtesters and a longtime Wizards employee.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling out on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work,

0:05.4

coronavirus edition. Okay, I have a very special guest today, someone from Magic's way back in Magic's

0:11.9

past, so I want to introduce Scaf Elias. Hello. Okay, so Scaf, I think this story will help people

0:20.3

understand sort of your connection connection to the game so

0:24.1

what was your first interaction with magic my first interaction with magic uh my first interaction with magic

0:32.4

uh my first interacting with magic was richard asking if i wanted to play a new game that he had invented

0:40.0

and pulling me aside to an office that I was, I believe was the astronomy lounge in DRL at

0:47.4

Penn University. We were both in grad school there. And then we played the game. And how long was that

0:53.3

before Magic came out so people understand the...

0:55.3

Oh, about two years before it came out.

0:57.1

I believe I was the third person to ever play Magic.

0:59.9

Okay.

1:00.7

So what was...

1:01.3

I played with one other person before, Barry Reich.

1:04.4

Some people know him as bit.

1:05.9

And then I believe I was the second person he brought in.

1:09.2

Okay.

1:10.1

So the second person... The third. Okay. So the second person,

1:11.2

the third,

1:11.9

other than Scaff and Barry.

1:14.2

So what was it like working,

1:15.9

like being a playtefter on a game that wasn't even necessarily,

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