#733: Ari Nieh

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

4.7 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In another of my interview series, I interview Ari Nieh, winner of the Great Designer Search 3 and someone I work closely with on the Vision Design team. We talk about his early days of Magic, GDS3, and what it's like to work in R&D.

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0:00.0	I'm not pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for other drive-door
0:05.7	or coronavirus edition. So as I've been doing, I've been interviewing people because I, in my car,
0:11.4	it's actually hard to do interviews if they're not sitting next to me. And I've had a few carpool
0:15.1	guests. But anyway, today, I've gotten Ari Ney. Ney, is that correct? So Ari, introduce yourself.
0:21.4	Ne or Nia.
0:21.8	What?
0:22.7	Knee or Nia is fine.
0:23.7	Knee or Nia, okay.
0:24.7	So Ari, among other things, is the winner of the third great designer search,
0:29.9	and it's currently working every day with me.
0:33.3	So say hi, Ari.
0:35.7	Hello.
0:36.7	This is my first time on Drive to Work.
0:38.9	I'm very excited to be here.
0:40.7	Okay, so let's talk a little bit.
0:41.8	Let's start from the beginning.
0:43.9	So how did you get into Magic?
0:45.3	What was your introduction to Magic?
0:47.2	My introduction to Magic.
0:49.0	So I was in high school and in 1999, I think it was.
0:56.8	Yeah, fall of 1994.
1:00.5	I went back to America.
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