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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#775: Rachel Agnes

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

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I interview Rachel Agnes, Magic brand manager. What does she do and how did she come to do it? Listen in and find out.

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,

0:06.6

coronavirus edition. Okay, I've been doing lots of interviews while I've been at home,

0:12.2

and today continues with another awesome interview. Today I have Rachel Agnes.

0:17.3

Hi, Mark. Yeah, hopefully I can live up to another awesome interview. I certainly hope so.

0:21.6

Okay, so the question I've been asking everybody to start with is, how did you get into magic?

0:26.6

Great, yeah. So this is phenomenal. Actually, I have a fun little tidbit. Just recently, as in a few days ago, I got a little pop-up on my Facebook in my Facebook memories, if that makes

0:40.1

sense, where it actually reminded me of the exact day, literally the exact day that I learned

0:46.8

how to play magic. And it was nine years ago. And I learned how to play magic. I'm from

0:52.9

Southern California. I had just moved to San Diego, and I didn't know anyone.

0:57.2

I knew like four people in the entire city.

0:59.9

And my roommate suggested that I come to play board game night with their friends.

1:06.1

And since I didn't know anyone and I needed friends, I thought it would be a great opportunity.

1:09.7

And when I got there, they were actually, they were playing magic.

1:13.4

And they asked if while we waited to play the board game if I wanted to sit down and learn

1:17.6

how to play.

1:18.8

And the two decks that they were playing were an infect deck.

1:23.1

And then the other, yeah.

1:25.5

And then the other deck was a, I mean, a Jace, blue-white control deck,

1:30.3

Stone Forge Mystic, really phenomenal, super powerful deck.

1:33.5

And it's kind of funny because the two things that I love most about magic now is blue-white

1:38.7

control and phyrexians and phyroxian mana.

1:42.8

So maybe in my formative years, when I learned how to play magic, that was really important.

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