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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#1273: Marvel's Spider-Man Set Design with Corey Bowen

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Game Design, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Mtg, Leisure, Magic The Gathering, Ccg, Games, Mark Rosewater

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I sit down with Corey Bowen, the lead set designer of Magic: The Gathering® | Marvel's Spider-Man, to talk about the set's design.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work at home edition.

0:07.0

So often when I do this, I like to interview people. And that is today. We have Corey Bowen, the lead designer, lead set designer of Spider-Man.

0:17.0

Hey, Corey.

0:18.0

Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello.

0:20.0

Okay. So, let's go to the very beginning.

0:24.2

So, we get the Marvel license.

0:29.6

We were doing multiple Marvel sets.

0:32.0

I was actually tagged to do the second one, which we'll talk about a year from now.

0:35.7

But you were tagged to do the first set.

0:37.8

So, where do you begin doing Spider-Man?

0:43.3

Yeah, I mean, I begin doing Spider-Man.

0:46.4

I'm attached to the set with, at the time, Glenn.

0:50.3

I don't know if we want to talk about the early process.

0:52.3

That's fine.

0:52.8

That's fine, yeah.

0:53.2

But the time, Glenn's working on it. And I am poised to take over set design for this.

0:58.5

At the time, really, we are just focusing on making a bunch of cool resonant Spider-Man cards.

1:06.0

Yeah, so the set, we've tried, I talked about this in my article.

1:08.2

The set started as a small set, and as we try to fit things in,

1:12.2

we realized that we wanted it to be bigger.

1:16.0

There's a lot of factors here,

1:17.7

but we just wanted the set to be bigger.

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