Wednesday, April 27, 2016

MTGO Feature Spotlight: Pro Tour Gauntlet

I think one of the most interesting and fun features that Magic Online has added in the past year of so (yes this includes leagues) is the Pro Tour Gauntlet. For those of you who do not know, after each Pro Tour there is an 8 person event that once filled gives you one of the following 16 decks:

  1. 1st Steve Rubin: Green-White Tokens
  2. 2nd Andrea Mengucci: Bant Company
  3. Top 4 Seth Manfield: Esper Control
  4. Top 4 Shota Yasooka: Esper Dragons
  5. Top 8 Luis Scott-Vargas: Black-Green Aristocrats
  6. Top 8 Jon Finkel: Seasons Past Control
  7. Top 8 Brad Nelson: Goggles Ramp
  8. Top 8 Luis Salvatto: Red-White Eldrazi Goggles
  9. 8-2 Patrick Cox: Mono-White Humans
  10. 8-2 Rob Pisano: Jeskai Control
  11. 8-2 Marcos Paulo de Jesus Freitas: Green-Red Ramp
  12. 8-2 Grzegorz Kowalski: Sultai Midrange
  13. 8-2 Michael Majors: White Blue Humans 
First of all I would like to say how great Standard is right now, 8 different decks made up the top 8 of the Pro Tour, when is the last time we could truly say that for a standard Pro Tour? I definitely don't remember one. Anyway, the Pro Tour gauntlet is a 3-round swiss event where you are assigned a random top deck to play with for the entry cost of 6 tickets or 60 play points. I think the value on this event is not the best but still definitely worth the experience. The prize payout is basically 30 play points for each win and a QP if you manage to the 3-0 the event. Right before the event starts you have about 2 minutes to check out the deck list and make any chances that you see fit. So what do you all think of this feature? Are you excited to get your hands on the new decks or will you stick to SoI limited? I know I am excited to play a bunch of these this week!

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