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Inside The Magic Studio: Mark Herberholz – Part 1

Check out the first part of Robert Martin’s interview with four-time Pro Tour Top 8 competitor and 2013 Pro Tour Hall of Fame candidate Mark Herberholz!

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 JonssonAntoine RuelJon Finkel – and William Jensen.