Congratulations to the remaining eight players at Pro Tour The Lord of The Rings!

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

  • rigatti@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

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

    • Mike@mtgzone.comOPM
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Boof Troupe@mastodon.online
        2·
        1 year ago

        @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.

  • Mike@mtgzone.comOPM
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Boof Troupe@mastodon.online
      2·
      1 year ago

      @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.