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Podcast: Humans of Magic
Episode: An American Magic Player In China - Arthur King
Description: Arthur King is a Chinese-American Magic player based in Shanghai, China.
Arthur's podcast is called "The BingKing Podcast." Find it at https://www.youtube.com/@LookitCrows
0:00 Intro
1:03 Arthur’s origin story
8:53 Playing Magic during college
13:35 Moving to China
17:49 Getting into Commander
22:07 A fork in the road
29:09 Dancing in public spaces
36:14 Why Arthur stopped drinking
44:30 Life in China (as an ABC)
48:56 People want connection
54:23 Happiness
1:00:11 Has data ruined everything?
1:05:40 Doing hobbies for the wrong reasons
1:13:44 Building Commander decks
1:17:32 Nobody cares about the Magic story
1:21:00 Magic’s failure in the China market
1:30:17 Shanghai EDH rocks
1:33:12 How Arthur would fix Magic
1:38:45 The Magic soci...