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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#765: Graeme Hopkins

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I talk with Graeme Hopkins, one of the finalists from the first Great Designer Search and someone who currently works on Magic: The Gathering Arena.

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, coronavirus edition. Okay, so I've been doing a lot of fun interviews. That continues today. So I have Graham Hopkins with us. Hi, Graham. Hey, Mark. Okay, so I'll start by asking you the question that I ask all of my guess.

0:21.3

How did you start playing magic?

0:24.0

Ooh, started playing magic.

0:25.4

That was a long time ago.

0:28.7

I believe it was, I want to say it was late in 1993.

0:35.7

I had some friends that went to this math and science private school that they started hanging out with them one day.

0:43.2

They started talking about this crazy card game called Magic.

0:47.3

So I think a couple of days later I walked down to my local store, which was really just kind of a sports card store, which had some games, right?

0:55.7

And they had a box of unlimited starter decks.

1:01.5

And so I bought a few of those, brought them back to my friends, handed them out.

1:05.5

We all opened them up.

1:06.7

We kind of played the entire weekend.

1:10.3

And, like, that was the hook right okay so that i got that

1:14.4

amazing crawlworm that was obviously the rare like the best thing i've ever seen you know okay so

1:20.7

this is like 94 95 94 probably it's unlimited right um i'm not sure when that came out i think

1:27.0

it was like late 93, early 94.

1:29.0

Yeah, limited came out and to 93 beginning 94.

1:31.3

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:32.2

Okay, so you've been at this a long time.

1:34.2

I want to say, yeah.

1:35.4

Okay, so you played Magic for a while.

1:38.2

Did you play Magic straight up until the first great designer search?

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