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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#818: From the Vault

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

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk about the From the Vault product line.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work,

0:05.5

coronavirus edition. Okay, so today, I'm going to go back and look at a product that we made for 10

0:12.0

years. The product is called From the Vault. So I'm going to talk about how the product came to be

0:17.2

and walk through all the different versions of it and just share some stories about it.

0:21.5

Okay, so we'll start with From the Vault Dragons.

0:24.5

That was the very first one.

0:25.7

Okay, so this product was the brainchild of a man named Mark Purvis.

0:30.1

I've had Purvis on my show before.

0:32.4

He is currently a magic architect, I believe, his name.

0:35.8

In the past, he's been a brand manager.

0:39.8

Mark is a longtime-time Magic fan who got hired on the business side of Magic. And Mark is a collector. He's always been a

0:46.5

collector. He loves collecting things. He loves collecting magic cards. And so he came up with this

0:51.5

idea for a product that was just for people who loved collecting.

0:55.9

And the idea was, I think the product was originally made, the idea of the product was,

1:00.2

it was something we would give just to the stores that would be sold through our game stores.

1:05.2

And I think mostly through the ones that we had, there's a whole hierarchy of stores we work with.

1:11.3

And so this was for, like, our best stores.

1:13.2

Something that we could give them.

1:14.8

They have access to.

1:15.5

That would be special for them, that they could sell to their players.

1:19.7

And anyway, Mark has this idea for something that could show off the coolness of magic

1:24.4

and would have lots of different styles and would be something that would

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