Magic: The Gathering has had some surprisingly famous actors associated with the game, both past and present. This is one of them.
As we have mentioned before, Magic seemed to love putting out video tapes in the 90s and early 2000s. Some were pretty long how-to videos for beginner players. Still, others showed off tournaments.
Cross-secting this are the number of famous people associated with magic. There's a lot of famous Magic players and fans out there. For example, the rapper Post Malone has beome pretty much a mascot within the game, spending $800,000 on a Black Lotus and over $1 million on the famed The One Ring card.
But where these two cross are where some well known actors today got some of their first gigs making tutorial videos for Magic. A few years back, fans going over old tutorial videos found this one from 1997 with a very familiar-looking mage. She's seen throughout the video instructing players on the basics of the game along with a sorcerer.
Check out the video on YouTube.
In case you can't tell, the sorceress is played by Rhea Seehorn, who would later go on to being pretty much A-list following Better Call Saul and Plurbius, thus making her a pretty early figure in Magic, then forgotten for decades, then brought back up thanks to the internet. Clips like the one above were uploaded on to YouTube and quickly became popular. That's when other outlets began noticing it and, by the time Seehorn was being interviewed for other things, the Magic video was of course being mentioned.
Later on, on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Seehorn conformed this, saying that the tutorial was for one of the early Magic video games. It was also one of her earliest roles, and the production was so cheap that, instead of shoes, they gave her and the actor next to her tube socks with electrical tape in a pattern to make it look like they were wearing boots.
Amazingly, she was also not ashamed of the role. While admitting it was low-budget, she was happy to do it and seemed pleased fans still appreciate that obscure role years later.
Magic doesn't have all too many connections to the world of acting and Hollywood - the decades long off-an-on of a Magic TV show/movie are proof of that. But it is still pretty great to see Magic, in an odd way, being an early start for actors still performing today. Although it would be wild if she was on the Magic television show as well now.
