pro tour hollywood

i so so so hate finals
keeps me away from playing magic

well day 2 of pro tour hollywood is done

seen a lot of innovation but not much has changed since shadowmoor was added
a few decks got a few cards but on the whole not many things have changed and the metagame looks similar to what we had after morningtide

oh by the way
the top 8 includes a dude from

singapore

18 year old choo yong han

playing uwr reveilark combo (don't worry. if you don't understand, you're not meant to)

complete profile of the top 8 can be found here

Yong Han Choo Pro Tour-Hollywood Top 8

Main Deck 61 cards 4 Battlefield Forge 2 Faerie Conclave 4 Mutavault 4 Mystic Gate 2 Reflecting Pool 4 Snow-Covered Island 1 Snow-Covered Plains 2 Vivid Creek 23 lands 2 Aven Riftwatcher 2 Body Double 2 Greater Gargadon 4 Mulldrifter 4 Reveillark 4 Sower of Temptation 2 Venser, Shaper Savant 20 creatures 2 Careful Consideration 4 Coldsteel Heart 2 Mind Stone 2 Momentary Blink 2 Pact of Negation 4 Rune Snag 2 Wrath of God 18 other spells

Sideboard 2 Aven Riftwatcher 3 Crovax, Ascendant Hero 2 Kitchen Finks 2 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir 2 Teferi's Moat 1 Vesuvan Shapeshifter 2 Wheel of Sun and Moon 1 Wispmare 15 sideboard cards

pretty standard uwr reveilark maindeck
beats just about everything except faeries

other top 8 decklists here

just a random aside
the merfolk deck of jan reuss looks so .....random

only 2 ancestral visions?
and random 1's and 2's in the sideboard?
at least it worked out for him

i'll be rooting for you jan!


but the way the lots were drawn he won't have to face the only faerie deck in the top 8 until the finals

strange fact: only 1 faerie deck in the top 8 (paulo vitor dama rosa)

a breakdown of the top 8 stands like this

Round 16 Standings

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Rank	Player	Points	OMW%
1	Nakamura, Shuuhei [JPN] GB Elves	40	62.9650%
2	Bohny, Nico [CHE] Doran	39	57.5521%
3	Lybaert, Marijn [BEL] RG Ramp	37	64.3229%
4	Ruess, Jan [DEU] MERFOLK!!!! yay	37	61.0677%
5	Mihara, Makihito [JPN] UWR Lark	37	59.9001%
6	Choo, Yong Han [SGP] UWR Lark	37	58.4635%
7	Gindy, Charles [USA] GB Elves	37	57.4219%
8	da Rosa, Paulo Vitor D [BRA] Faeries	36	61.8490%

so as we can see
even though going into the tournament faeries was the best deck/ deck to beat

it just barely made top 8

9	Yurchick, Adam [USA]	36	60.9375%
10	Petric Maretic, Grgur [HRV]	36	58.3333%
11	Scheel, Brandon [USA]	36	56.9754%
12	Kopec, Mateusz [POL]	36	55.5804%
13	Wafo-tapa, Guillaume [FRA]	34	64.3973%

4 more players were on 36 points and PVDR just got in on better tiebreakers

the other sad part is wafo tapa
(love these weird names)

he was undefeated day 1 but a couple of unintentional draws and a loss in the last round saw him knocked out of contention

still, he brought a very innovative deck to the tourney designed by manuel bucher

video is here



oh poor wafo tapa

you can get his decklist here


or for your convenience

Guillaume Wafo-Tapa

Main Deck 60 cards 1 Dreadship Reef 2 Fungal Reaches 1 Grove of the Burnwillows 2 Mystic Gate 4 Reflecting Pool 2 Sunken Ruins 4 Vivid Creek 4 Vivid Grove 4 Yavimaya Coast 24 lands 3 Cloudthresher 4 Kitchen Finks 4 Mulldrifter 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae 4 Wall of Roots 16 creatures 4 Careful Consideration 4 Cryptic Command 3 Firespout 3 Makeshift Mannequin 4 Rune Snag 2 Slaughter Pact 20 other spells

Sideboard 1 Cloudthresher 1 Detritivore 3 Mind Shatter 1 Murderous Redcap 2 Primal Command 1 Shriekmaw 3 Teferi's Moat 3 Wispmare 15 sideboard cards

maybe i made a mistake by saying not much has changed
shadowmoor made the manabases of preexisting decks much better

so much better in fact that you can play cards like this

and this
both with insane colored mana requirements in the same deck
when lorwyn was first released we thought that these would only go in monocolored decks
funny how much the format has changed

can't wait to see how the top 8 turns out