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🗓️ 29 January 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm not pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive to work, coronavirus edition. |
0:07.0 | So using my time at home to interview interesting people, all about magic. So another interesting person has joined us. Melissa Dutora. |
0:15.0 | Welcome. |
0:16.0 | Hey, everyone. Thanks for having me. |
0:19.0 | So today, we have a topic today because you recently, relatively recently, put together a brand |
0:27.9 | new team called the casual play team. |
0:30.9 | So I'll talk a little bit about what does that mean? |
0:32.7 | What is this team up to? |
0:34.9 | And then we're going to talk about casual play and what casual play means. |
0:39.0 | Sounds good. So I guess I can start by talking about what the casual play team is up to. And like, why did we even make it in the first place? |
0:46.9 | Well, a big reason why we made this team is because we are making more and more products these days. |
0:54.1 | And we need more resources |
0:56.6 | for playtesting these products. And we didn't really have an efficient way to playtest commander. |
1:01.2 | So it was really important to us to actually have a playtesting team dedicated to playtesting |
1:06.0 | commander because it was not really something that was done as efficiently as we wanted to in the past. |
1:14.0 | And like I said, as we're making more and more cards and sets, and especially commander |
1:18.5 | products, like, it's really important that we have ways to test them. |
1:21.7 | So our team was born. |
1:25.3 | So one of the things that's always fascinated me, and I've written articles on this and stuff, |
1:30.2 | is just what exactly casual play is. And I think there's no one single answer. I think |
1:35.8 | casual play actually covers a bunch of different things. So I want to talk a little bit with you |
1:40.7 | about what does casual play mean to you? Sure. So as some of you may know, |
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