Fans Played Magic: The Gathering on the Floor of a Machine Girl Concert
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If you do anything weird in public I will see it and I will ask for an explanation. It was true when people started recording gigs with a 3DS, when people started wearing suits to see The Minions, and it’s true now that two people decided to play Magic: The Gathering on the floor of a Machine Girl concert.
The video, which is circulating feeds on both TikTok and Twitter, shows American electronic music duo Machine Girl on stage performing while two Planeswalkers wage an epic battle within Wizards of the Coast’s iconic card game.
"I ran into the guy I was playing against in the merch line before the show and he was showing off some cool custom MTG cards he brought for Matt [Stephenson of Machine Girl]", one of the competitors, Jared, told IGN.
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"He told me he had a bit planned to play a game in the pit. He brought decks but he was looking for someone to play against. I love the game and I thought it was a hilarious idea."
The instigator, going by Big Money Cybergrind [BMC], explained they'd had the idea a month and a half ago but no one on Machine Girl's Discord wanted to play along. It literally wasn't until five minutes before the duo came on that they found someone up for playing.
But what decks were they playing? "From the 2005 standard format, Zoo and Ghost Dad. [We] got like five games in and the Zoo deck got kicked over," BMC laughed. When asked if those decks had any specific significance, they BMC said: "I have a huge soft spot for nostalgia".
It wasn't just the pair of players who were into it either. "Everyone around us was stoked about it and when we were done people helped pick up the
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