Pro Tour Nagoya: Day Three Wrap-up

Rich Hagon and Brian David-Marshall recap Pro Tour Nagoya, including an interview with winner David Sharfman. The 21-year-old from Florida followed up his victory in the Grand Prix at Magic Weekend Paris with a Pro Tour win at Magic Weekend Nagoya.

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[ThaCVirus]

wizards,please fix your sound quality,its like their whispering,we know you have the money

[jp201201]

@Demonomania87 It was not only drawing the thopter assembly but also being able to tutor it with the treasure mage works really well. Used the same 2 cards at a draft a few weeks ago at a FNM and those two cards work really well giving the high chance of being able to play the thopter assembly each game.

[warLock21X]

mAgik!

[MrFreak0r]

as somebody said before me: sharfman always has 10 viridian claws in hand, tats why he won

[Sonareklipse]

Hey, now he can afford fingernail clippers!

[PreppyPoser1]

@zangetsu9915 I second that, Valakut was crappy. It wasn't dominate even when Caw-Blade wasn't invented, back then UW Tapout was dominate and guess what, Jace was still there.

[coyotemoon722]

saying....BYE

[donotfeedthetroll]

they just recently printed an event deck that had stoneforge in it, i doubt they would just ban it. and banning jace would be pointless, especially since he's going to be rotating out in a few months

[Joe11Blue]

@zangetsu9915 Uhhh, Valakut wasn't that dominate. Despite what everyone thinks for some reason. UW Tapout still was pretty strong against it, just like Spread'em was. Jace is what defines the Meta these day's. Without it the whole Mystic with Equip. fall's flat on it's face with inconsistency and dead draws. I play Greysteel and Puresteel, I know the package very well. If you add Jace, then it becomes a House, but every deck does with Jace. Jace is in every dominate deck. Mystic isn't.

[zangetsu9915]

@Joe11Blue you are very mistaken jace isn't a problem stoneforge is and there are several good cards but their power is stifled by stoneforge, swords, and squadron hawk.... if you remember before cawblade was a deck valakut destroyed jace decks

[Joe11Blue]

So umm, when are they going to start the banhammer's on Jace or Mystic? Heck even a restricted list would help.

Love the game, but stifling the format with having to play one card to compete is strangling the newer player's that are unable to afford STD. I doubt we will see many younger people in the next few year's after this format dominating rotation. A total of two good cards in an entire block.....