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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #14 - Pro Tour

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

🗓️ 27 December 2012

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Mark Rosewater talks about the creation of the Pro Tour.

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0:00.0

Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:03.5

We all know what that means.

0:05.4

It's time for drive to work.

0:08.1

Okay, well, today, my ongoing quest to try to figure out different topics for the podcast,

0:16.1

I've been thinking about different kinds of things that I can talk about.

0:19.7

And one of the things I realized is I've been a wizard's a long time. I've been involved in a lot of things that I can talk about. And one of the things I realized is, I've been a wizard's a long time, I've been involved

0:24.1

in a lot of things, and while I've been involved in a lot of sets, I'm involved in other

0:28.7

aspects of magic.

0:30.1

And so today, I'm going to talk about the creation of the Pro Tour, of something I was

0:36.1

involved in.

0:37.3

So one of the things I've realized, by the way, I've been thinking about how my, like, I have a

0:41.3

podcast, I have a column, I want to make sure that I'm doing things that fit the medium by which

0:46.1

I am working with, and that I've come and realized that podcasts, I think they shine in

0:51.7

storytelling, and sort of recalling things things and, you know, where I think

0:57.0

articles do a little better job of being, you know, talking about a very specific thing where I can

1:00.5

rewrite and be very exact. So, I'm trying to find topics in which I get to tell stories, because I

1:06.5

think that's what podcasts do best. The reason I picked the Pro Tour is,

1:11.4

it's one of the things that I was very involved in the creation of,

1:14.7

and that I have a very firsthand, you know, viewpoint of watching it happen.

1:19.5

And so, anyway, I think the Pro Tour has become a pretty, you know, a key part of magic.

1:24.3

So today, I'm going to talk about the creation of the pro tour.

1:28.6

And like, I've talked about it in a couple other podcasts. I feel that one of my roles is I'm one

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