The following judges are breaking onto the Japanese GP scene this weekend:
Toshihisa Mitsunaga
- Name: Toshihisa Mitsunaga
- Level: Level 1
- Location: Okinawa, Japan
- Region: Japan
Moe Furusawa
- Name: Moe Furusawa
- Level: Level 1
- Location: Kyoto, Kyoto-shi, Japan
- Region: Japan
Yuji Yoshimura
- Name: Yuji Yoshimura
- Level: Level 2
- Location: Tachikawa, Japan
- Region: Japan
Satoshi Oishi
- Name: Satoshi Oishi
- Level: Level 2
- Location: Sendai-shi, Miyagi-ken, Japan
- Region: Japan
- Approximate date/month/year you started playing Magic: Early 2014
- L1 Certification Date: 8/23/2015
- Favorite thing (e.g., card, deck, group of people) about Magic: Stifle.
- Occupation: Waterworks engineer
- Random fact about yourself: Food-griffin and Stifle-nought are my favorite legacy deck.
- Why did you become a judge?: One day my friend told me, “Your Magic rule is broken. I don’t want to play broken Magic.” I was really sad, mortified. So I decide to study Magic rules hard, and play correct Magic.
- What excites you most about this event?: Judges who never met me before. I want to know how other judges works.
- What worries you most about this event?: Humidity. I sweat easily 🙁
- What are you hoping to learn at this event?: Group working.
- Who is your mentor?: Mitsunori Makino
. Makino-san gave many many skills to me.
- What challenges have you faced or are you facing to become a better judge?: Learn about policy.
- How have you worked to overcome those challenges?: Discuss with Shimamura-san
(live in same city.) He had faced same challenges, and he study hard. So he knows a lot.
- What is your favorite Magic memory?: When I played Affinity deck, I put Stifle into my sideboard. My opponent really surprised when his fetch-land was Stifled XD