- I have no idea what's going to happen.
Much like my job everyday.
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- I'm based in SoCal and I've been doing magic
for around nine years.
- I've been doing magic since I was seven years old
and professionally for about three years
since I graduated college.
- I've been doing magic for about 15 years
and I specialize in close-up magic
primarily with cards and occasionally coins.
- I am a magician and comic
that performs for Fortune 500 companies
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- I know absolutely nothing about Magic: The Gathering
except that you use cards, I think.
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- Okay, so I go first right?
- Yes.
- Do you have any sevens?
- Go. No, I don't.
- Looks like we know what we're doing
- It's like a Dickens novel, these things.
(whoosh whoosh whoosh)
- I think it requires sound effects.
- And play Beastbreaker of Bala Ged.
- I'ma fly over you (whooshes)
- I don't like that card.
- I'll help you out here.
- I have nothing.
This is like when I'm doing a big show,
and they send like a really crappy comic up,
and he does a really terrible job.
And then they go, all right Joseph, you're up.
- Because he seems super friendly, Ondu Giant
he seems like a nice guy.
- Every time I play games, people think I cheat.
And I don't cheat.
- I'm going to attempt with these two guys
- This is how I feel,
when I perform at children's birthday parties.
Very stressed out.
(hissing)
- That's not a good card.
That's not a good card at all.
- Magic.
- Why would you do that?
Just kill me.
- I'm going to attack with this guy,
Artisan, I can't even say this guy's name, but he
I'm sorry. I'm just going to attack with him.
- Do it
- That's ten points. So that means--
- And I lose.
- Send my hellion to you.
So I have six times four that makes--
- I am at negative--
- That makes 24.
- Negative 22.
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- It was much more fun than I expected.
you know, I've always heard that Magic: The Gathering
is this like really boring game, but once you get into it
and once I got all the rules, it was pretty fun.
- There was a dealing, it's close, but the stress levels...
They parallel sometimes.
- You know when it turn around, it actually feels like
real magic and I haven't experienced that nervousness
for such a long time.
I don't know why, it's just a card game.
- I almost wish that instead of the card game
being more like real life,
real life could be more like the card game.
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- The game changes when you actually know how to play it.
- It's true.