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

Okay, so I have a wonderful guest with me today. Gabby Sparts.

Hey, Gabby. Hi. Hi, Mark. How are you? It's good to see you.

Okay, so I'm going to ask you the question. I always start with the same question, is how did you get into magic? Sure. So I got it to magic

around 2011 and one of my best friends from college actually knew that I would love the game

because he played as a kid but I'd never played magic. So he got us or he got me actually a deck

builder's toolkit for my birthday and he called it a selfish gift because he wanted to play too, because he had to play magic in

years. And so I was like, okay, we'll try it out. So we made some really, really kind of bad

decks, which just had like them on a green deck, the like black vampires deck, which is the

one that I played. And a bunch of people at my office, we all got into it at the same time, which was really

cool because it was some people who had played when they were kids and they hadn't played

in the long time, some people who had never played, like I had never had played, and some

people who had dabbled in and out.

So I think together we kind of formed this group of like magic players at work.

And eventually we started going to like F&M and then we started going to Grand Prix and stuff.

So it was awesome. It was it was cool to do it with friends.

Okay. So how did you go? So that's a very simple times.

How did you sort of go from casually playing in the office to having

magic become a much bigger part of your life? What would that transition? So I think we all got

into it to varying degrees of intensity. So we had a friend who was like immediately going into

Andrew Bextram actually. He was immediately into the like PtQ scene and he got really

competitive real fast. I was definitely on the more like, I'm going to go on Fridays and this is

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