I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so today I talk about a lot of things I do in magic, but there's something that I had a hand in that's a little more off the beaten path than most of my design stories.

So today we're talking about the origin of the feature matches.

So let me give a little context and then I will explain sort of how feature matches came to be

and then talk a little bit about sort of what made a good feature match.

And okay, for those, real quickly, for those that don't know what feature matches are,

at the Pro Tour and high-level events in general, we will specifically pick matches that we think are the most interesting matches to watch, and then we will assign them a special play so that they can spectate it on, and then we tend to write about them, and we put them on camera

in the days of streaming and stuff.

So anyway, I had a big hand in the origin of the future matches, and it's just a different

kind of story to tell.

And so, since I have so many podcasts about magic, I've realized, I thought I had told the

story. One of the things, a little behind

the scenes things is often I will come up with an idea for a podcast. And then what I always

do is I go online and I look. There's a wiki that lists on my podcast and I always will

search it because I've done so many that sometimes I think I haven't done something. I don't remember the top of my head and then it turns out I'd already done it.

Now, you know, sometimes if I approach the same topic differently, maybe it's still an interesting

podcast.

But I'm trying not to repeat myself and we're coming up on a thousand episodes.

So it's a challenge at times.

Anyway, I searched and there was i'd never done

future i thought i had and then i searched them i had not i've done a bunch of pro tour i've done a lot

of stuff on pro tour history um so here's the real the backstory to set up the story um so i uh

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