#755: Dave Humpherys
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
4.7 • 801 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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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 other drive-to-work, coronavirus edition. |
| 0:07.0 | So I've been lining up some fun interviews, and today, someone from Wizards. It's Dave Humphreys. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:15.0 | Okay, so Dave, I'm going to start with the question I've been asking everyone, which is how did you start playing magic? |
| 0:22.9 | I started playing magic during my spring break of, I guess it was 1994, my senior year in college. |
| 0:30.7 | And I had a bunch of, a couple of my high school friends had been really into gaming, and we played games kind of together all through |
| 0:38.4 | high school and went down over spring break one of my friends had bought some cards and was playing |
| 0:43.7 | with my other friend and they're like you got to check this out it's great um and yeah i picked it up over |
| 0:48.3 | spring break and kind of kept playing it every once in a while i showed some friends at college when i got |
| 0:53.2 | back there and had really been playing mostly ever since. |
| 0:57.3 | Okay, so you started playing... |
| 0:59.5 | What set did you start playing with? |
| 1:01.8 | I mean, technically, like, when I first went into stores |
| 1:04.7 | and got cards, it was with Unlimited. |
| 1:07.1 | Unlimited was pretty much what was available. |
| 1:09.3 | Okay. |
| 1:09.6 | Shortly around that time, antiquities, I think I found in stores as well. |
| 1:14.0 | Okay, so the first time I remember interacting with you or knowing your name is at the Ice Age pre-release. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah, so, yeah, it's been a while, but yeah, that was a worldwide pre-release. Yeah, so, yeah, it's been a while, but yeah, that was a worldwide pre-release, sort of a one-of-a-kind |
| 1:32.6 | in that sense. |
| 1:34.1 | It was the largest event for a very long time. |
| 1:37.4 | It was simultaneous with Canadian nationals, like Darwin Castle, one of the people that I |
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