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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#751: Christine Sprankle

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Magic The Gathering, Games, Mark Rosewater, Ccg, Leisure, Mtg, Game Design

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk with Christine Sprankle, one of the best-known Magic cosplayers.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive-to-work, coronavirus edition.

0:07.0

Okay, so I've been doing really fun interviews and I have a fun one today, so I'd like to introduce Christine Sprenkel.

0:13.0

Hello, I'm Christine Sprankle. You may have heard of me, unfortunately.

0:18.0

Okay, so let's, we're going to walk through who is Christine Sprinkle and what

0:23.0

is she done?

0:23.8

That's, you are the, you are the topic of today's podcast.

0:26.4

So, um, the question I've been asking everybody is, to start with is, how did you first

0:31.3

come to play magic?

0:32.9

Uh, I first came to play magic, uh, about a year before Scars of Mirrodin came out. It was just a bunch of

0:43.6

cards, extra cards that my friend had. And he helped me throw together a Tasa Orzov-Sion deck

0:52.0

because he pretty much had just a bunch of the original Ravnikas set.

0:56.3

And it was a hot mess.

0:57.8

I didn't understand quite how to use some of like the Orzov Vastilica and all that.

1:04.6

But I thought you just have to go.

1:09.4

And yeah, that was a long time. And then I, uh, started drafting scars of

1:15.2

Mirridan, which was really interesting because, uh, mirroden was just weird to learn a lot of magic,

1:24.3

more in-depth when because it was all of a sudden there's ferexia

1:28.3

and poison and it was just i was like oh this is this is very different from the taste of deck

1:36.0

that i had and then coblade came out and i was like this is a terrible game for a second.

1:45.3

Oh, no, complain.

1:46.3

I was strobes for the game.

1:51.8

Yeah, because it was just like, oh, now these matches are super long. And, but Scars Mirren was also the reason I started cosplaying magic because

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