Modern play, Gone?!

Wizard of the coast has made an announcement a while back concerning modern play at the pro tour events.  They decided to do away with the format, why? Here’s just some of the reason why they are getting rid of the format.

Wizards of the Coast made an announcement a while back concerning modern play at the pro tour events;  they decided to do away with the format. Why? Here’s just some of the reasons why they are getting rid of the format.

Wizards of the Coast's goal for the pro tour is to reward the players for their drafting skills, innovative deck building and skillful game-play in an environment they are not too familiar with. They also want to highlight the newest card set in the tournament, which seems like the biggest reason why they’re getting rid of modern. Wizards usually set the pro tour for modern just a few weeks after the new set comes out, which allows the players to showcase the new cards in their modern decks by showing how the new cards work in a premier level setting.

Since modern became a format back in 2011, Wizards of the Coast has questioned if the format is a good fit for a pro tour setting. Even top players have pointed out that the format isn't about being innovative or solving problems with the newest set; it gives rewards for repetitive, established decks. That wasn't what the pro tour was suppose to be about.

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creatureless take over

Seth Manfield, with a white black control deck that he built at 1 am on Friday morning, has beaten the 2007 other players that showed up for the big apple’s Grand Prix New York 2016. In the finals he took on Louis-Samuel Deltour, a French player, with his 4 color cryptolith rite deck. Louis-Samuel had as much of an uphill battle as Scott Lipp had in the semi-finals before him, facing endless spot and mass removal. Who knew that making a last minute, creatureless, deck would afford such a coveted prize?

G/W tokens were pretty well used by players around the Grand Prix New York play area and made the top 8 decklist 3 times. Bant company deck did not make the top 8, even though a lot of players have used the deck.

The top prize payout for Seth Manfield was $10,000,with Louis-Samuel taking home $5,000 for coming in second place. That's a pretty nice payout for both guys, just for playing a good ol’ intense game of Magic: The gathering. Every player will get a stoneforge mystic promo just for participating at any Grand Prix event (while supplies last).

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TOKEN VICTORY

The Shadows over Innistrad pro-tour came to an end on April 24, 2016. The winner? Steve Rubin with his G/W tokens deck, after three grueling and tiring days of trying to make it to the top. In the final match he took down Andrea Mengucci with his G/W/U Bant Company deck.

We all thought that the Bant Company deck was really the deck to beat. It had developed a reputation for knocking out the Eldrazi, which I am pretty sure we were all tired of seeing in tournaments. More recently, it seems to have had an unsuccessful run among some players; only a few have actually made it this far since the first time it appeared. That makes this Bant deck a stand-out performer, taking second place and a prize payout of $20,000, which is a pretty nice payout for second place!

The big question is, now that the tour has ended with a G/W tokens deck coming out on top, will we see more of this kind of deck showing up to your Friday night MtG and events with standard decks?

The answer: probably.  

I’m sure Magic players are running around trying to get all the cards they need to copy the winner’s deck, with the aim of winning events. It just so happens that the tour ended the weekend before Shadows over Innistrad game day weekend. There may be a chance that this deck will make its rounds during game day weekend at your local game shop.

The next pro tour will be happening in Sydney, Australia, from the 5th to the 7th of August, coinciding with the release of the Eldritch Moon set. The event will be standard and booster draft. I'm sure we'll be seeing Steve Rubin there playing.

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