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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#804: Luis Scott-Vargas

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I interview Pro Tour Hall of Famer Luis Scott-Vargas who has worn many hats over the years.

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 the drive to work, coronavirus edition.

0:07.0

Okay guys, I've been using my time at home to do lots of fun interviews, and today I have one of the best players in Magic.

0:14.0

Luis Scott Vargas is here to join us. Hey Louise.

0:18.0

Hey, Mark, how's it going? Good. So,. So I'm going to start with the question I ask everybody.

0:23.9

How did you learn to play magic?

0:25.2

How did you get into magic?

0:27.0

Me and my friend Seth, when we were in the fifth grade, we bought a starter deck of revised

0:31.7

and two packs of the dark each and muddled our way through a bunch of games without

0:36.1

knowing the rules, and it just kind of captured me ever since.

0:39.6

Were those the sets on sale at the time, or were they older sets that you bought?

0:42.5

Like, when was this?

0:43.7

Those were the sets on sale at the time.

0:45.7

I remember very distinctly a couple weeks after when I was starting to really get into it,

0:50.8

saving up for a pack of Legends, which was an old set at that point,

0:53.8

or older, a year old

0:54.9

whatever and then when the store ran out they never got another pack in so that pack of legends

0:59.2

never materialized yeah so 94 so you started playing in 94 yeah in 94 okay so fifth grade

1:05.6

so how do you go from playing in fifth grade and not necessarily knowing the rules to actually

1:11.1

like starting to play competitively?

1:12.3

What was that transition?

1:14.4

It was a long one.

1:15.6

The first competitive tournament I played it was in 2003.

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