Pro Tour The Lord of The Rings Top 8 Players and Decklists

https://www.magic.gg/news/pro-tour-the-lord-of-the-rings-top-8-players-and-decklists

Congratulations to the Top 8 players at Pro Tour The Lord of The Rings!

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11 Comments

rigatti@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

So we have both Jake Beardsley in his PT debut and Kai Budde in his 7363626th PT top 8. Pretty cool.

mike@mtgzone.com · 1 pts · 3y

Beardsley gives hope to us all

Kra@mtgzone.com · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)
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mike@mtgzone.com · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I'm curious what we see on August 7th's ban announcement. I can't imagine anything is going to be touched in Modern, definitely not Standard. I could see Historic nerfing The One Ring by making it have text saying "Only 1 copy can be in your deck" which would be a fantastic upgrade in my opinion. I could also see Historic nerfing Orcish Bowmasters but I don't think they're going to hit that one right now. It's a shame because of how many decks suffer from the ping but I don't think that's enough to warrant changing anything right now. Elves suffer, soul sisters/lifegain kinda suffers, those combo decks with Yawgmoth may or may not suffer much. Aggro is already difficult to play but I don't think it's that hard to overcome.

BoofTroupe@mastodon.online · 1 pts · 3y

@mike

The announcement for the yearly (plus post-PT) B&R updates only mentioned paper formats but it seems like as good a time as any to update the arena-only formats too.

morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 2 pts · 3y

People have criticised my Tron deck for aspects it shares with Christian Calcano's XD

Sinistar7510@vmst.io · 1 pts · 3y (3 replies)

@mike I don't see any decklists...

lovestha@mtgjudge.social · 2 pts · 3y
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mike@mtgzone.com · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)
Sinistar7510@vmst.io · 1 pts · 3y

@mike Thanks!

mike@mtgzone.com · 1 pts · 3y (3 replies)

I'm just really happy they brought the Pro Tour back. I believe they stated it was over in lieu of a different professional tournament structure. But now it appears we have the Pro Tour in it's original form back? I'm still not 100% sure what the path is for someone to get into this tournament but it seems at least closer to what it was in the beginning.

lovestha@mtgjudge.social · 3 pts · 3y
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BoofTroupe@mastodon.online · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

@mike
You can get to the pro tour by
Winning a Regional Championship Qualifier at a local game store (or being runner-up in a two-slot RCQ)
then doing well at the Regional Championship (the number of PT invites varies from region to region)

I'm sure there's a path to the PT on MTGO and maybe even MTGA too.

mike@mtgzone.com · 1 pts · 3y

Thank you for explaining that, that's actually pretty nice