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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #210 - Back in the Day

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Games, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Mark Rosewater, Ccg, Magic The Gathering

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mark looks back at a number of things Magic used to do that it stopped doing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.4

Okay, so today I'm doing a show that I've dubbed Back in the Day.

0:11.7

So what I want to talk about now is things that magic has done, but no longer does.

0:17.8

And so it's just a collection of talking about different things.

0:20.7

I know a lot of talking about different things.

0:24.9

I know a lot of people this podcast, you know, might not have been playing magic for as long as I have.

0:30.2

So I'm going to go through and just talk about things that magic did once upon a time just to be a source of like,

0:35.2

here are things that magic at one point did. If this is popular, maybe I'll do more,

0:37.7

maybe I'll make a series out of it, but at least we'll start today. It's just kind of talking about, hey, Magic Once Upon a Time did this.

0:41.8

And there's a long list of things.

0:43.3

I'm not even going to get through the whole list today.

0:45.0

But I'll start.

0:45.9

And if there's good responses, the kind of thing, maybe I'll do again.

0:49.5

Okay, we'll start with anti. I've talked about this a little bit. Okay, so when Magic first started, back in 1993, you drew eight cards.

0:58.8

You took your eighth card and you played it.

1:03.7

I think it was face up.

1:05.2

I think you knew the whole time.

1:06.6

That was called anti.

1:08.3

And anti, if you won the game, you got to keep your opponent's anti card permanently.

1:15.4

Kept it.

1:16.1

It's yours.

1:18.4

And so, and let me stress.

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