Luis Scott-Vargas of the United States defeats Matej Zatlkaj of Slovakia in the finals and Player of the Year Tomoharu Saito of Japan in the semis to win Pro Tour Berlin 2008! The format was post-Shards of Alara Extended. The Top 8 was:
* 25 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url] (39.06%)
* 11 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url] (17.19%)
* 6 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25181]Zoo[/url] (9.38%)
* 5 all Rock variants, including 5C Gifts Rock, Death Cloud Rock, Dorock, and The Rock, which are all also counted separately in this list (7.81%)
* 3 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25586]Dredge[/url] (4.69%)
* 3 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=61835]Storm[/url] (4.69%)
* 2 Bant Control (3.13%)
* 2 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=104046]Death Cloud Rock[/url] (3.13%)
* 2 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=101017]Next Level Blue[/url] (3.13%)
* 1 5C Gifts Rock (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=137799]All-In Red[/url] (1.56%)
* 1 decklist missing (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=101142]DimirTron[/url] (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=99526]Dorock[/url] (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=105318]Goblins[/url] (1.56%)
* 1 Plasma Swans (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=104698]RDW[/url] (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=70119]The Rock[/url] (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136857]Tezzerator[/url] (1.56%)
Update (2008-11-16): Incredibly, just two weeks later, Luis Scott-Vargas has won Grand Prix Atlanta 2008, in a completely different format (Shards of Alara Limited). See the full details at [url]http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/gpatl08/welcome[/url]. Interestingly enough, Tomoharu Saito was also in the Top 8 of GP Atlanta, just like in PT Berlin.
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A great top 8 in terms of quality, but with 6 fricking Elf decks, and both semis being Elf mirror-matches, I say screw Extended. Even more than before.
Congrats LSV, though to me Kenny will be the moral champion...
Edit: Regarding "USA-sweeping", in the last 2 PTs USA have only had 1 person in the top 8, and US players make up more than 25% of every PT.
A great top 8 in terms of quality, but with 6 fricking Elf decks, and both semis being Elf mirror-matches, I say screw Extended. Even more than before.
Congrats LSV, though to me Kenny will be the moral champion...
Edit: Regarding "USA-sweeping", in the last 2 PTs USA have only had 1 person in the top 8, and US players make up more than 25% of every PT.
and yet we still won all three.
Is it safe to say that American Magic is at the top of its game?
Glimpse of Nature is (for now) a chase card. The soonest ending auction on ebay is currently at 32 dollars for a playset. SCG is sold out, they were selling them 5 apiece.
The final match was fun to watch, I certainly am glad he won.
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Read my post again. Did I ever deny that? All I said was that USA have had a poor showing in the top 8 in terms of players, putting 1 person in the top 8 in Berlin, 1 in Hollywood, and 2 in Kuala Lumpur. That they have won them all is more a sign of margins than dominance.
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Is it safe to say that American Magic is at the top of its game?
I don't have any hard numbers on this, but I'm targeted more often than a black guy driving a beat-up sedan with a broken tail-light and no license plate, and Cy's well aware of that.
I think I have 6 or so glimpse of nature sitting in my 'crap-binder' =/ They sure as hell showed me what's up. Elf-ball should drop off the map a bit when people figure out how to beat it consistently.
Elf decks will start to die now cause people will hate the hell of the deck out of the format. The worst kept secret of the format will now see a gruesome fate now that people actually seen how much the deck was used.
I doubt this will turn into How flash was in legacy.
For all the complaining about how unfair the card is, how expensive it is, how it "wrecks Magic" and likely due to the number of ElfBall decks in the top 8, there were exactly ZERO copies of the so-called best creature in Magic, Tarmogoyf.
Also, coming into this event, most of us knew that a green common creature from Shards would have a huge impact on it and would likely win it all. We just had the wrong one winning it, didn't we?
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For all the complaining about how unfair the card is, how expensive it is, how it "wrecks Magic" and likely due to the number of ElfBall decks in the top 8, there were exactly ZERO copies of the so-called best creature in Magic, Tarmogoyf.
Also, coming into this event, most of us knew that a green common creature from Shards would have a huge impact on it and would likely win it all. We just had the wrong one winning it, didn't we?
We lived to see the day when somebody said that... If I sigged quotes, you would be the man
I still think the coolest innovation is Kenny Oberg's. Yesterday I was very sure he would dominate... his deck is much better, he didn't netdeck it, and he lost also because he mulliganned once to 4...
Dunno which deck I love most... I love Tezzerator because it's so full of answers, but Elves! is undoubtely great. They're both dificult decks to play, a lot of choices involved... but we expected nothing less from a top 8.
I am actually really shocked that affinity didn't even make top 8. Everyone was saying: Oh Oh, affinity is going to take the format with orim's chant and ichroid gone. I guess people were packing enough hate in the sideboard...
I think LSV got pretty lucky. His deck was not very well tuned for mirror, unlike Saito's. Tezzerator with maindeck Trinisphere could have gone either way.
I suspect that if it had been 100+ matches of round robin, Saito would have been the clear winner.
As others have said, I'm happy to see an extended with only about $1000 in the total cost of top 8 decks.
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I am actually really shocked that affinity didn't even make top 8. Everyone was saying: Oh Oh, affinity is going to take the format with orim's chant and ichroid gone. I guess people were packing enough hate in the sideboard...
it didn't make top 8 because virtually no one was even playing the deck as most of the players and commentators pointed out.
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1. Luis Scott-Vargas (United States) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
2. Matej Zatlkaj (Slovakia) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
3. Tomoharu Saito (Japan) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
4. Sebastian Thaler (Germany) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
5. Kenny Öberg (Sweden) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136857]Tezzerator[/url]
6. Martin Juza (Czech Republic) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
7. Denis Sinner (Germany) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url] (UB)
8. Jan Doise (Belgium) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
Congratulations to Luis Scott-Vargas and everyone else in the Top 8!
Top 8 archetype breakdown:
* 6 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url] (75.00%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url] (12.50%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136857]Tezzerator[/url] (12.50%)
See [URL]http://www.wizards.com/magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/ptber08/welcome[/URL] for more details.
Top 64:
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2. Matej Zatlkaj (Slovakia) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
3. Tomoharu Saito (Japan) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
4. Sebastian Thaler (Germany) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
5. Kenny Öberg (Sweden) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136857]Tezzerator[/url]
6. Martin Juza (Czech Republic) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
7. Denis Sinner (Germany) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url] (UB)
8. Jan Doise (Belgium) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
9. Tomohiro Aridome (Japan) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url] (U)
10. Johan Sadeghpour (Sweden) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=105318]Goblins[/url]
11. Philipp Summereder (Austria) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25586]Dredge[/url]
12. Carlos Amaya Troncoso (Colombia) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=104046]Death Cloud Rock[/url]
13. Thomas Kannegiesser (Germany) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url] (U)
14. Rashad Miller (United States) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=137799]All-In Red[/url]
15. Andreas Müller (Germany) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url] (U)
16. Nikolaus Eigner (Austria) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25586]Dredge[/url]
17. Daniel Rodi (Germany) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url] (U)
18. Marcio Carvalho (Portugal) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=99526]Dorock[/url]
19. A. J. Sacher (United States) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25181]Zoo[/url]
20. Sukhum Kiwanont (Thailand) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=61835]Storm[/url]
21. Jan Brodzak (Czech Republic) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
22. Mark Dictus (Belgium) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
23. Gabriel Nassif (France) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url] (U)
24. Ruud Warmenhoven (Netherlands) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
25. Nicolay Potovin (Russia) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
26. Robert Seder (United States) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=101017]Next Level Blue[/url]
27. Yosh itaka Nakano (Japan) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
28. Masahiko Morita (Japan) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
29. Jed Dolbeer (United States) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25181]Zoo[/url]
30. Daniel Krutil (Czech Republic) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
31. Shouta Yasooka (Japan) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=101142]DimirTron[/url]
32. Mario Pascoli (Italy) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=61835]Storm[/url]
33. Marco Orsini Jones (England) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
34. Naoki Shimizu (Japan) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
35. Maciej Pasek (Poland) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=101017]Next Level Blue[/url]
36. Lasse Nørgaard (Denmark) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=70119]The Rock[/url]
37. Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa (Brazil) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25181]Zoo[/url]
38. Oliver Polak-Rottmann (Austria) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25586]Dredge[/url]
39. Atsushi Itou (Japan) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url]
40. Arnaud Baglin (France) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=104046]Death Cloud Rock[/url]
41. Koutarou Ootsuka (Japan) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
42. Olivier Ruel (France) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
43. Richard Bland (England) - decklist missing
44. Shuuhei Nakamura (Japan) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
45. Mateusz Kopec (Poland) - Plasma Swans
46. Gadiel Szleifer (United States) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url]
47. Joel Calafell (Spain) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
48. Kazuya Mitamura (Japan) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
49. Pascal Vieren (Belgium) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
50. Patrick Chapin (United States) - Gifts Rock
51. Mike Hron (United States) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
52. Alex Majlaton (United States) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25181]Zoo[/url]
53. Grgur Petric Maretic (Croatia) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
54. Amiel Tenenbaum (France) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url]
55. Thomas Guedj (France) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=61835]Storm[/url]
56. Dmitry Moiseev (Russia) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url]
57. Tim Landale (United States) - Bant Control
58. Brian Six (United States) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25181]Zoo[/url]
59. Raphael Levy (France) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=104698]RDW[/url]
60. David Felske (Canada) - Bant Control
61. Richard Hoaen (Canada) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url]
62. Ricky Sidher (United States) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25181]Zoo[/url]
63. Masaya Kitayama (Japan) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
64. Paulo Carvalho (Portugal) - [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url]
Top 32 (not Top 64) archetype breakdown:
* 13 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url] (40.63%)
* 6 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url] (18.75%)
* 2 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25586]Dredge[/url] (6.25%)
* 2 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=61835]Storm[/url] (6.25%)
* 2 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25181]Zoo[/url] (6.25%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=137799]All-In Red[/url] (3.13%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=104046]Death Cloud Rock[/url] (3.13%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=101142]DimirTron[/url] (3.13%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/
showthread.php?t=99526]Dorock[/url] (3.13%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=105318]Goblins[/url] (3.13%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=101017]Next Level Blue[/url] (3.13%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136857]Tezzerator[/url] (3.13%)
Top 64 archetype breakdown:
* 25 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136741]Elfball[/url] (39.06%)
* 11 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136854]Faeries[/url] (17.19%)
* 6 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25181]Zoo[/url] (9.38%)
* 5 all Rock variants, including 5C Gifts Rock, Death Cloud Rock, Dorock, and The Rock, which are all also counted separately in this list (7.81%)
* 3 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=25586]Dredge[/url] (4.69%)
* 3 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=61835]Storm[/url] (4.69%)
* 2 Bant Control (3.13%)
* 2 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=104046]Death Cloud Rock[/url] (3.13%)
* 2 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=101017]Next Level Blue[/url] (3.13%)
* 1 5C Gifts Rock (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=137799]All-In Red[/url] (1.56%)
* 1 decklist missing (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=101142]DimirTron[/url] (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=99526]Dorock[/url] (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=105318]Goblins[/url] (1.56%)
* 1 Plasma Swans (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=104698]RDW[/url] (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=70119]The Rock[/url] (1.56%)
* 1 [url=http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=136857]Tezzerator[/url] (1.56%)
Update (2008-11-16): Incredibly, just two weeks later, Luis Scott-Vargas has won Grand Prix Atlanta 2008, in a completely different format (Shards of Alara Limited). See the full details at [url]http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/gpatl08/welcome[/url]. Interestingly enough, Tomoharu Saito was also in the Top 8 of GP Atlanta, just like in PT Berlin.
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Congrats LSV, though to me Kenny will be the moral champion...
Edit: Regarding "USA-sweeping", in the last 2 PTs USA have only had 1 person in the top 8, and US players make up more than 25% of every PT.
How many of the last 3 have we won again?
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and yet we still won all three.
Is it safe to say that American Magic is at the top of its game?
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The final match was fun to watch, I certainly am glad he won.
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Read my post again. Did I ever deny that? All I said was that USA have had a poor showing in the top 8 in terms of players, putting 1 person in the top 8 in Berlin, 1 in Hollywood, and 2 in Kuala Lumpur. That they have won them all is more a sign of margins than dominance.
Europe had 6 players in this top 8 And 5 in KL.
Go Team USA!
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I doubt this will turn into How flash was in legacy.
For all the complaining about how unfair the card is, how expensive it is, how it "wrecks Magic" and likely due to the number of ElfBall decks in the top 8, there were exactly ZERO copies of the so-called best creature in Magic, Tarmogoyf.
Also, coming into this event, most of us knew that a green common creature from Shards would have a huge impact on it and would likely win it all. We just had the wrong one winning it, didn't we?
Some people just love Jace a little too much
You're missing the point.
Europe dominated the Top 8, sure, but did they win? No. America did.
Imagine that.
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Goyf and nacatl are too slow.
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I still think the coolest innovation is Kenny Oberg's. Yesterday I was very sure he would dominate... his deck is much better, he didn't netdeck it, and he lost also because he mulliganned once to 4...
Dunno which deck I love most... I love Tezzerator because it's so full of answers, but Elves! is undoubtely great. They're both dificult decks to play, a lot of choices involved... but we expected nothing less from a top 8.
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I suspect that if it had been 100+ matches of round robin, Saito would have been the clear winner.
As others have said, I'm happy to see an extended with only about $1000 in the total cost of top 8 decks.
All-in Red packing 4 SB Trinisphere
Frankly, for my first PTQ, I fully expect to take black stax and run with that (of course...lets see how it tests first).
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EDH
<StRonG>UWG</tRonG> Tokens Combo
<StRonG>W</tRonG> Beatdown at its Finest
GWR Big Beatz
<StRonG>B</tRonG> The one you hate
techoverrated.I don't think so. Elfball is easy to hate: Chalice of the Void, Darkblast, Firespout, Goblin Sharpshooter, Pyroclasm, Slice and Dice, Trinisphere, etc. It did as well as it did because people weren't sufficiently prepared for it with hate cards in the SB.
- Jon Finkel believes in maintaining a healthy, balanced diet. He gets all his fiber from eating Magic cards for breakfast, and all his protein from eating Magic players for lunch.
Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. "God**** it Otto, you are an alcoholic." "God**** it Otto, you have Lupus" ... one of those two doesn't sound right.
A perfect answer to NoSB is Gaea's Anthem.
DCI L2 Judge
GP:Madrid 2010 45th
GP:Amsterdam 2011 74th
GP:London 2013 67th
Bazaar of Moxen 2013 32nd
it didn't make top 8 because virtually no one was even playing the deck as most of the players and commentators pointed out.