PROTOUR KALADESH HALL OF FAMER WINNER

Recently, on the beautiful island of Honolulu, Hawaii held the largest pro-tour in Magic: The Gathering history. It showcased the newest set: Kaladesh. Shota Yasooka, in his fourth career pro-tour, made it into the top 8. Another top 8 player, Carlos Romao, has made it to the finals with Shota. Both players’ decks are full of controls.


The card composition of a control mirror deck is pretty interesting; here’s Shota Yasooka’s deck:


Planeswalker (1)
1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets


Creature (6)
2 Torrential Gearhulk
4 Thing in the Ice


Sorcery (6)
2 Radiant Flames
3 Painful Truths
1 Transgress the Mind


Instant (21)
2 Unlicensed Disintegration
3 Harnessed Lightning
3 Void Shatter
2 Glimmer of Genius
1 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Negate
4 Galvanic Bombardment
1 Essence Extraction
3 Anticipate


Land (26)
4 Spirebluff Canal
2 Wandering Fumarole
4 Evolving Wilds
4 Sunken Hollow
3 Smoldering Marsh
2 Mountain
2 Swamp
5 Island


Here’s Carlos Romao’s control deck:


Planeswalker (2)
2 Dovin Baan


Creature (5)
2 Archangel Avacyn
3 Torrential Gearhulk


Sorcery (5)
2 Fumigate
3 Radiant Flames


Instant (20)
2 Summary Dismissal
4 Harnessed Lightning
4 Glimmer of Genius
3 Immolating Glare
3 Void Shatter
1 Blessed Alliance
3 Anticipate


Enchantment (2)
1 Quarantine Field
1 Stasis Snare


Land (26)
4 Port Town
4 Aether Hub
3 Inspiring Vantage
1 Spirebluff Canal
4 Island
6 Plains
4 Wandering Fumarole


Notice how both players have Torrential Gearhulk in their control decks? The decks were basically built around that card. These decks even took out the two aggro vehicle decks that appeared in the top 8. Now that the pro-tour is over, these cards are sure to go up in price. Everyone is going to want these key cards for their own decks, if not all of the cards required to reconstruct the decks used by the final two players. Play on!


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Eldritch Moon release date

As we all know, all of the cards for the new set of Eldritch Moon have now been revealed. Pre-release for this set is the weekend of July 16th-17th, 2016, while the Magic online players get theirs at a later date on, the weekend of July 29th - August 1st, 2016. The official launch date for the paper players is on the weekend of July 22nd-24th, 2016. Magic online players will get their official release date of August 1, 2016.

Eldritch Moon is the second set in the Shadows Over Innistrad block. The new set will have 205 cards available for you to play your heart out. The pro-tour, which is in Sydney (Australia) on August 5-7, 2016, will be playing cards from both sets of the Shadows Over Innistrad block, using the draft format.


Good luck to all you players.

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