So we have both Jake Beardsley in his PT debut and Kai Budde in his 7363626th PT top 8. Pretty cool.
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Beardsley gives hope to us all
Oh that are a lot of LOTR cards there 😐
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.
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.
People have criticised my Tron deck for aspects it shares with Christian Calcano's XD
@mike I don't see any decklists...
It should have them there further down on the page. https://www.magic.gg/news/pro-tour-the-lord-of-the-rings-top-8-players-and-decklists
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.
@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.
Thank you for explaining that, that's actually pretty nice