What Makes a Great cEDH Player? | Drake Academy & Team Monolith

I sometimes wish that cEDH felt like a more varied community.

I wonder if you have any thoughts about, like, I don't know, what, what can, what can the community do, what can the voices in the community do to make it more inviting to women, to, you know, to, to LGBTQ people, you know, people that feel normally pushed out of communities, uh, especially, like, burgeoning gaming communities like this?

For sure.

I think a lot of it starts on an LGS level.

So for me, nobody at our LGS was ever really weird about the fact that I am a woman, and I know I'm partially fortunate in the sense that I have always had Jordan.

So I joke-

Mm

... that he's my scary husband privilege.

So-

[laughs] He's big

... for people that don't have- Right.

For people that don't have that, I think it starts at the LGS level, having s- a space where you feel safe to go in, knowing that store owners are gonna stand behind you, staff is gonna stand behind you.

At a tournament level, I think it's always important to, A, if you're a player that doesn't feel welcomed and a specific incident has happened, call a judge, make the judging staff aware.

Obviously, judging staff should do what they can to be an inclusive community, to call out behavior like that, right? So I think it's very much just these little individual changes.

As far as getting more individuals, like LGBTQ, women, minorities, et cetera, into the game, I think it really just comes with pushing more of those voices.

And, you know, I talk about it on Drake Academy sometimes as well, sharing those creators out and kinda showing that the space isn't just all plain dudes, you know? And just, just kind of pushing creators that show that it's not...

It doesn't all have to be the same, right? And just making sure that there's that awareness out there so when people try to access the content and try to get into the community, they're able to find people that they resonate with.

Yeah, that's a great answer.

And I, you know, I have a daughter and she's 11.

And before she was old enough to, like, articulate her thoughts and, you know, everybody would be like, "She is so drawn to seeing other women and females in anything." When she sees a female, when she sees a- another woman in whatever she's doing, that's the person she loves, you know? That's the person she wants to do.

And, like, that, that clicked with me.

I was like, "Oh, shit," you know? Like, we've gotta do more of this.

We've gotta start, like, being more welcoming to people and inviting people in because they wanna be around people that they, you know, that they can see-

That they relate to

... that they relate to.