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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#792: George Fan

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

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I interview George Fan, creator of Plants vs. Zombies. I talk with him about his love of Magic and his year spent on the Magic design team.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right. Can I do the honors? Go ahead. I'm not pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that

0:10.0

means. It's time for another drive to work. Coronavirus edition. Okay, guys. So I'm here interviewing George Fan, probably most famously known for the creator of Plants v. Zombies.

0:26.5

But I like to think of him as Magic Player extraordinaire.

0:30.6

And George had a chance to work with us.

0:33.1

We'll get out to all that.

0:33.8

But anyway, that, by the way, is the first time I'm not the person to do the

0:37.7

intro. You're the first person ever to do the intro. That's not me. Thanks for humoring.

0:42.0

We had to get like 780, 90 things in before that happened. But, uh, so, okay, so George, so

0:48.8

anyway, I always start these by, anyway, guys, I'm here with george fan so george let's start with the question i

0:54.3

always start with which is how did you get into magic i okay so this was back let's see i was in

1:01.7

high school and i was in a uh i was in an sAT prep class along with some friends of mine were all

1:09.0

there and you know i had not I had not, I had not heard

1:11.8

of magic, obviously. But I saw, I saw some people from another school in a corner of that class

1:18.7

playing this game. And they were saying things like, I attack you with shiv and dragon. And I was like,

1:25.2

I like to say I had a kind of like a radar for what, what looked fun and what, you know, usually my radar is pretty on point.

1:33.7

And I just, I just from the aura of being in their presence, I could tell, I could tell that game looked fun.

1:41.6

And so with the same friends in my class that were from my school, we decided we were all

1:48.6

going to buy, what were they called back then? They were the start. They were starter decks and

1:55.7

boosterbacks. Okay, we bought some starter decks. I think we bought like one starter deck each.

2:00.5

And at our next sleepover, we busted out these cards

2:04.2

and we opened them.

2:04.8

And it was so, it was so, it was so mysterious.

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