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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#771: Corey Bowen

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I interview Corey Bowen, a current member of R&D, one who focuses on Commander design.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means.

0:04.0

It's time for the drive to work, Coronavirus Edition.

0:07.0

Okay, so I've been doing some fun interviews. The fun never stops.

0:11.0

So today I have Corey Bowen. Say hi, Corey.

0:14.0

Hello, everyone.

0:15.0

Okay, so Corey, let's start by, the question I've been asking everybody to start with is,

0:20.0

how did you start playing magic?

0:22.2

Sure.

0:22.9

So I actually started playing magic on my senior year of high school.

0:28.4

Me and my friends had just gotten into Dungeon and Dragons.

0:31.9

And then we were at a game store and we were just thinking, hey, if we're getting nerdy enough to play Dungeon

0:39.2

and Dragons, how far can we go? And I remember seeing that they had the little intro decks

0:45.5

for, they were like very cheap or something. I looked over to one of my friends and I said, hey,

0:52.4

if I get two of these, well, you get two of these.

0:54.8

And then we can play together.

0:56.0

And then he looked over to another friend and said, hey, if we get two of these, will you get two of these?

1:00.1

So the group of us, like six or seven of us, all end up getting intradex.

1:03.8

And then we just went home and really tried hard to figure out how to play the game. I remember they also gave us a booster pack for free where my first

1:11.7

rare was Enter the Infinite, which I really enjoyed. Okay. Okay, so, um, so how did you get from

1:18.7

there, from casually playing to, so the first time I met you would be your internship. Right. So,

1:26.1

uh, after that, I ended up going to school for game design.

1:30.9

I went to a school up here in Washington.

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