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Good morning, mages! The final results are in, and Tom Martell has won Pro Tour: Gatecrash on the back of The Aristocrats, a R/W/B deck. Today I want to go over what each of the top decks does and the impressions that I got from watching these top players play them. Hopefully it will give all of us some insights into the metagame for both Modern and Standard play.
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- 2/25/2013
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- Tomas Quinones
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No sleep ‘till Brooklyn. Or, in this case, Houston. Friday night went unusually late at Roll2Play in Coppell, Texas. We’re a small store and we don’t attract a big crowd, usually less than sixteen players. Everything took longer tonight, and me and Lawson didn’t leave the store until after midnight. I know that’s not very late for all the hardened gamers out there, but it’s late for me because we’re leaving for the Houston PTQ tournament around 4:30 am. We were home by 12:30 am, I showered and looked for clothes and sleeves and was in bed around 2:00 am. Alarm went off two hours later and I felt like a truck had hit me. That’s a tough way to start the day. I had to remind myself that playing in a sealed deck PTQ was FUN… even when you have to drive five hours each way.
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- 12/17/2012
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- 1832
- Author:
- Zanman
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What do you want when you go to a Pro Tour Qualifier? You want professionalism and quality. A PTQ is an event you plan ahead for, one that you might travel many, many miles to play in. If you have to put more planning and attention to detail into your preparation to play in an event, it makes sense that the tournament organizer would want to put more work into such an event as well. It can be hard, sometimes, for a tournament organizer not to fall into the grind of running events week after week, gradually forgetting how important the big tournament experience of a Pro Tour Qualifier is for many, if not most customers. If this sounds like the start of a typical rant about some terrible tournament, let me assure you, it is quite the opposite.
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- 12/9/2012
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- 1955
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- Zanman
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There are a lot of good stories from last week’s big event in San Antonio, just like there would be from any Grand Prix. Legion Events did a fantastic job all weekend. There’s no bigger story than that of Tyler Lytle from Oklahoma. Even with great local and regional success, there can be no doubt that Tyler Lytle took it to a whole other level winning Grand Prix San Antonio with seemingly little resistance. In this article I’ll tell you more about Magic’s newest GP champion as well as share more coverage of my experiences at the event and in the fabulous city of San Antonio.
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- 11/30/2012
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- 1887
- Author:
- Zanman
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The die roll decided that I was going first for round six at GP: Ghent. My English opponent Daniel kept his seven as did I. The contorted countenance. So deep in the tank. Daniel then poses the question: Does that include fetch lands?
That's what a first turn Blood Moon will do.
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- 7/29/2012
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- 3124
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- jandax
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In Austin, Texas, Pat’s Games is the king (or queen) of the Magic heap. When the Texas Magic community learned that Pat was putting on her first Pro Tour Qualifier, no one knew exactly what to expect.
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- 4/5/2012
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- Zanman
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Brian Kibler emerged as champion of Pro Tour Dark Ascension this past weekend in Honolulu, Hawaii. Kibler’s second Pro Tour championship (his first was Austin 2009) was achieved through a memorable and grueling top eight playoff that included mammoth five-game matches in the semi finals with fellow Hall of Famer Jon Finkel and with Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa in the finals. The top eight was one of the best ever, all the more reason to take the results of the tournament seriously.
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- 2/19/2012
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- Zanman
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The new year in Magic started with a bang. Over a thousand players participated in the first Grand Prix of the year on the first Saturday of the year. It’s no accident that Grand Prix Austin was held the first weekend of the new year, there are twenty-eight Grand Prix events scheduled for 2012 so far, and that schedule only runs through August. There are yet more GPs this year to be scheduled. Welcome to the new competitive world of Magic.
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- 1/24/2012
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- Zanman
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Broiling temperatures prevailed at the qualifying tournament for Pro Tour Philadelphia in Oklahoma City on Saturday, July 23rd. The Elks Lodge in suburban Midwest City was the site. One hundred and thirty-five players arrived to battle for a Pro Tour seat in the post-Jace, post-Mystic Standard environment with Magic 2012 newly added.
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- 7/31/2011
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- 5503
- Author:
- Zanman
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It was a rainy day in Concord, North Carolna. 176 players arrived to contest for the top eight prize of an invitation to Nationals. Star City Games hosted the event, with a side event after round three offering their own Invitational Qualifier.
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- 4/25/2011
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- 2857
- Author:
- -AluCard-
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