I'm pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so last time I was talking, in my last podcast, I was talking all about my time as a magic

player before I became a wizard's employee.

And I realized there was a whole facet I didn't get to.

And there's some fun stories to tell, so I saved it for a separate podcast.

And so this podcast is about me as a competitive player. And I't get to. And there's some fun stories to tell. So I saved it for a separate podcast. And so this podcast is about me as a competitive player.

And I'm going to talk about the few competitive events I competed in.

So let me explain this window because there was a very small window.

This was true.

So organized play and magic didn't really start until, I would say, the early spring of 94.

And it wasn't until about the fall of 94 that I was asked to stop participating in sanctioned

tournaments.

So the window before there were sanctioned tournaments and I could not

compete in them was not very big. But there's a little point in time where I was somebody who

was able to compete and I did. So yesterday I talked about how I had a lot of Johnny sensibilities

and I liked those weird wacky decks. But I also was willing to go compete

in competitive things. And there, I would try to build decks that I thought could win. I mean,

they had to be my decks. They definitely was a Johnny Spike at best when I competed. But I,

I did actually figure out what I thought were the good decks. Usually what would happen is I'd make

a lot of goofy decks decks and some of them,

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