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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#762: Mike Turian

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk with Mike Turian, Pro Tour Hall of Famer and coworker. I talk with him about his time working as a Magic developer and his current job as principal product designer. What is that? Listen and learn.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So I'm not pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive-to-work, coronavirus edition.

0:07.0

Okay, so I've been doing fun interviews. That continues. I today have Mike Turian.

0:13.0

Hey, Mark. It's good to not be in your car.

0:16.0

Yes, well, you join me on my drive-to-work. Man, this used to mean something. Now it's sitting in my den. Okay, so I'll start with the question I've been asking everybody. How did you get into magic?

0:31.3

Okay, so I started playing magic. The first pack of magic that I purchased was The Dark.

0:41.4

So a couple of years ago now.

0:41.7

Yeah.

0:49.9

And the way it sort of happened was originally I had heard about magic through, I was in high school at the time.

0:54.5

And, you know, in English class, sort of in the back of the room,

0:56.9

these guys, they were playing this card game.

1:00.0

I didn't really know what it was, but, you know, it looked fun.

1:00.6

It looked interesting.

1:06.4

And they actually taught me to play when we were at sort of this overnight camp.

1:13.8

And, you know, I kind of treated it as like any other sort of board game of like, hey, that was a funny evening activity.

1:21.1

But then I, my mom sent me to a different leadership training program.

1:23.3

I remember the name Slap very well.

1:25.3

It was like student leadership something, something.

1:28.3

And which I, me and my high school friends, of course, had fun times with.

1:33.6

And at that activity, my friend Ari Stulman, every day, it was a week-long program.

1:40.2

And on Monday, he's like, hey, you've got to come to check out this game.

1:43.2

And on Tuesday, he said it again and I

1:45.2

and finally when you asked me for the third time on Wednesday uh I was like all right fine like I could tell you

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