This is Inside The Magic Studio with your host Robert Martin, the interview podcast with the best in Magic: The Gathering. My guest this episode is Mark Herberholz.
0:00 – 0:40 – Intro to the show and guest.
0:40 – 1:30 – You work for Stone Blade Entertainment. What do you do for them?
1:30 – 3:04 – How did Stone Blade Entertainment start?
3:04 – 4:10 – What is the difference between overpowered Magic cards and SolForge ones?
4:10 – 5:13 – With card design do you prefer to push the edge or be safe?
5:13 – 5:53 – How much statistical work do you do on decks to prevent cards from being overpowered?
5:53 – 6:31 – Does working with some of best Magic players affect how much work is done?
6:31 – 7:28 – What is your vision of where this can go?
7:28 – 8:22 – You, like a lot of Magic players of that era, left to go to Curacao. What was the draw for you?
8:22 – 9:08 – What did you enjoy most about working there?
9:08 – 10:04 – When you were working down there, how much talk was there of guys wanting to go play?
10:04 – 10:51 – How disappointing was it that a large portion of you couldn’t go to events?
10:51 – 11:53 – With the difficulties you describe of being on the island, where did you live?
11:53 – 12:30 – Who was the group of Magic players down there that we would know?
12:30 – 13:12 – How does your girlfriend understand or accept you playing Magic?
13:12 – 13:37 – With Patrick Chapin wedding coming up, what kind of weekend are you expecting?
13:37 – 14:50 – What is your relationship with him?
14:50 – 15:57 – How much in your eyes has he changed as a person?
15:57 – 16:23 – What were your first thoughts when you got invited to the wedding?
16:23 – 16:49 – Out of those infinite gamers that are going to be there, who are you looking forward to spending time with?
16:49 – 18:41 – It’s going to be like a walk down Magic history; is there going to be storytelling or just sitting down and playing cards?
18:41 – End – Word association with Magic players: Gabriel Nassif – Richard Hoaen – Gabe Walls – Jelger Wiegersma– Anton Jonsson – Antoine Ruel – Jon Finkel – and William Jensen.