{"id":39,"date":"2025-09-16T04:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/maplemana\/?p=39"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:29:03","slug":"maple-mana-3-sierra-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/maplemana\/2025\/09\/16\/maple-mana-3-sierra-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Mana 3: Sierra Black"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello Canadian Judges! Our third judge spotlight is a longtime Eastern Judge, Pro Scorekeeper, and keeper of immense amounts of random facts. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Name:<\/strong> Sierra<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Level:<\/strong> Two<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location:<\/strong> Toronto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge start date:<\/strong>  May 27, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Occupation:<\/strong>  Administrator and Bookkeeper, Hairy Tarantula<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Favourite card:<\/strong> Lightning Bolt

Least Favourite Card:<\/strong> Obliterate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Favourite format:<\/strong> Legacy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commander<\/strong>: Zhulodok. I\u2019ve been playing Eldrazi (predominantly in legacy) for a decade<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Single Colour, Two Colour Guild and Three Colour faction do you identify with personally? <\/strong>
Red, Izzet, Temur

Favourite non-Magic Game:<\/strong> Baseball<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a glance magic and sports are fairly different. What’s the overlap between the two that interests you?<\/strong>: Both have officials that have many logistical matters to handle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best tournament result:<\/strong> 2nd at Legacy Champs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Random fact about yourself: <\/strong>I am Greek by descent and eligible for citizenship<\/p>\n\n\n

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Why do you judge? <\/strong>The people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tell us your favourite Judge story.
<\/strong>Not as much my story but \u201cJudge, I have pizza\u201d as occurred to Joe Steet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are some tips you have for other Judges?
<\/strong>When you see a really good idea, steal it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you have any tips for judges looking to start travelling for judging?<\/strong>: Sometimes it is worth splurging a bit for comfort, but sometimes it\u2019s lighting money on fire
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Favourite non-judging moment with other judges:<\/strong> Getting to ring in 2019 in Vancouver with judges after a GP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who have been some of your biggest mentors in the Judge Program, and what did they teach you? <\/strong>Alderfer taught me the above steal an idea, Jon Goud taught me so much that I\u2019m forgetting what I can attribute to him.

What positive aspects has the Judge Program contributed to your everyday life?
<\/strong>I’ve become much better at speaking to crowds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s the best part about your local Magic community?
<\/strong>How welcoming to queer people we are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you have any tips for judges on making their communities more welcoming?:<\/strong> Pay attention to what\u2019s going on in your space. Don\u2019t let hateful people use your space to espouse their hateful words and actions, and aggressively remove them from your spaces.

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What is your favourite non-Magic hobby?
<\/strong>Baseball, and video games<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did you get involved in Magic in the first place?
<\/strong>I started with Duels of the Planeswalkers (Editor’s Note: They used to make a yearly magic game similar to those annual sports games)<\/em> and then walking into LGS’s all around Toronto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you were a Planeswalker, what would be your ultimate?
<\/strong>-7: deal 7 damage to each opponent and everything they control<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where would you go if you could take an omenpath vacation on any magic plane?
<\/strong>Ravnica (Editor’s Note: As a Torontonian Sierra would be at home in an endlessly sprawling city)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


If you could have any magic character as your head judge, who would it be?
<\/strong>Elspeth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proudest moment of your Judge life?
<\/strong>Got to HJ an SCG Classic in 2019 with all my best friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What character in Magic (real or fictional) represents you the best, and why?
<\/strong>Chandra, she\u2019s a hothead<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two Truths and a Lie:
1. <\/strong>I played baseball in college
2.<\/strong> I was in choir in high school
3.<\/strong> I have Day-2’ed a GP (Editor’s Note: That’s a “Grand Prix” for you young folk!)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last episodes answer:
<\/strong>Tob hasn’t quite Tob’d five continents yet.. soon though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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