I'm pulling out of somebody else's driveway. You know what that means? Well, it means that I

drop my daughter off at friends. But, luckily, it's further away from home. So you guys get

extra content today. Okay. So, um, recently I just finished a five-part series on Unhinged. But

five parts is a lot in a row, so I like to break it up.

So today, I'm going to do another one of my series, 20 years and 20 podcasts. So the way this

works is every podcast, I started with 1993, the year of the game's release, and every time I've

been doing one of these, I do another year going chronologically.

Well, last time I did 2001,

which means this time, yes, 2002.

Okay.

So I will say this, the interesting, before we start,

so before I do these,

I do a little research so I can, you know,

remember what every year did.

And the interesting thing about it was this year, 2002, had three set releases, had a world champ

decks, and that is it for product.

I mean, I'll go through it all, but it's very interesting as you sort of look at where the game is now and where the game once was.

I mean, one of the reasons that I hope people enjoy the series is just trying to understand kind of the context of Magic's history in each year.

So, anyway, let's begin.

So the first thing happened January 10th through the 13th, which was Protore San Diego. In it, Frenchman Farid Marengi defeated

Jens Toren from Sweden. So Jens's name is going to show up a few more times this year.

So in 2000, the year was all about John Finkel, and 2001 was all about Kaibuta.

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