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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #108 - Invitational Part 4

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

🗓️ 28 March 2014

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about The Duelist/Magic Invitationals 7, 8, and 9.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:02.0

We all know what that means.

0:03.7

It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.4

Okay, so today is the fourth part of a series that I've been doing about the Magic

0:12.5

Invitational.

0:14.5

So I've covered the first six of them in the previous three episodes, podcast, and today I'm

0:20.5

going to do the fourth one,

0:21.4

and there's probably a fifth one coming.

0:22.9

I don't think I'm getting through all the rest today.

0:25.2

So, for those that don't know, real quickly,

0:27.5

the Magic Invitational was basically the All-Star game.

0:31.3

It's something I'd started originally for a magazine called The Dueless.

0:34.6

It was called The Dueless Invitational for a while.

0:37.5

And we went around the world.

0:40.7

In the first six years, we went to Hong Kong and then to Rio de Janeiro and then to

0:46.1

Barcelona and then to Kuala Lumpur and then to Sydney and then to Cape Town.

0:51.6

That was my previous episodes.

0:52.9

But I got called into... So Chris Galvin for a long time

0:57.7

was the head of organized play. Chris was a great guy. He called me into his office one day and he said,

1:05.0

Mark, I need to talk to you. He goes, I like the invitational. I think the invitational does good things,

1:12.4

but I don't have any budget for it.

1:16.9

So, I can't give you any money,

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