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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #268 - PAX 2015

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2015

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Wizards pulled out all the stops with Magic at the Penny Arcade Expo held in Seattle this past August. This podcast talks all about it, including the full tale of my crazy seventeen-hour day.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.5

Okay, so for me, yesterday we just finished packs. I know this is the future for you or this is, I'm talking about it in the future.

0:14.4

It's the past for you guys. But anyway, I wanted to talk all about the experience of packs and magic Pax. It was pretty cool. A lot of stuff happened.

0:21.7

And I'm going to tell some behind-the-scenes stories.

0:24.5

And for those that weren't there, which is the majority of you probably, just sort of

0:27.9

tell you what happened and talk about it.

0:29.8

Okay, so for those that don't know, Pax stands for Penny Arcade Expo.

0:34.9

So Penny Arcade is a webcomic.

0:37.4

Some of you might be familiar with it.

0:38.8

They, I don't know, a number of years ago, decided to make a show sort of based around their

0:45.4

interest, mostly video games and such.

0:48.8

But anyway, Pinnircate Expo, known as Pax, has grown.

0:53.6

It's exploded. Now there's now four Paxes. This is known as Pax has grown. It's exploded. Now there's, there's now four Paxes.

0:56.9

This is now called Pax Prime. And there's Pax East, which is in Boston. And there's Pax South, which I think is in Austin. And there's Pax Australia, which is in Australia.

1:06.9

So anyway, it's become this pretty big series of shows. So this year, Wizards decided that the

1:14.2

timing of Pax was really good to do a big splash about our upcoming set, Battle for Zendakar.

1:20.9

So we decided we were going all out, and this was going, and we've always done stuff with Pax.

1:25.6

Normally there's a Ps party we do.

1:32.2

So we always are someone involved in PACs. But this year, like, we were pulling the stops out.

1:35.6

Okay, so I'm going to, I'm going to walk through all sorts of different things that we did.

1:48.1

Starting with, okay, so I get there in the morning, on Friday morning. In fact, I wasn't working Friday morning. I took my son to go, he'd never been to Pax before, and he's 11, and anyway, Adam had a great time.

1:51.7

But anyway, I walk up, the first day, and the first thing you see when you get to the annex

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