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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #304 - Firsts, Part 2

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mark concludes his two-part discussion with Melissa DeTora on their Magic firsts.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of the parking lot.

0:03.0

You don't know what that means.

0:04.4

It's time for drives from work.

0:06.8

So this is the only third time I've ever done this.

0:09.2

So with me is Melissa Datorra.

0:11.3

Hey, everyone.

0:12.3

And we're doing part two of our first podcast.

0:15.4

So if you haven't listened yet, go listen to part one.

0:17.8

We're going to assume you listen in part one. We're not going to, we're not going to easy on you to assume that you, we're not going to fill it in. Go listen to part one. And we're talking all about first, first with magic. So we left off. What do we leave off? We left off with what was the first card you traded for. So in part one, I already sent the card that I traded for. Yes. So I have a pretty crazy story. So I don't 100% know this is the first thing I traded for,

0:40.1

but I don't remember my early trading.

0:42.4

This is the only story I remember from my early trading.

0:44.5

And I wasn't a big trader.

0:46.6

So this is the story I'm going to tell.

0:48.1

So I'm not sure it was my first trade, but I didn't even able to play with because there wasn't a lot of magic tournaments or anything yet. This didn't exist. And so I saw an advertisement for a magic, I don't know, convention or something. And I was all excited because I didn't know any magic players. And so I go and there was this like hotel and I think like 30 people

1:12.5

showed up. It's just this tiny, you know, I was expecting like a game convention. I'd been a lot of

1:16.8

game conventions. But nevertheless, there were people, they're magic. So we were playing magic.

1:21.8

And I was excited. Even with just 30 people, it was very exciting for me. But anyway, there's

1:26.0

somebody there who was a magic collector, not a player, but a collector.

1:30.2

And this is right after, I think, beta came out.

1:34.4

And so they were trying to get a full set of beta.

1:37.2

And I had three of the four cards they did not have.

1:41.5

I had a volcanic island, which was not in Alpha. I had a manna short,

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