Well the last Grand Prix of the season has been finished, we now await worlds 2011 in the heart of california this year, in the region of San Francisco but before we get into the top 8, let's take a look back at the history of San Diego's past magic events.
The most recent event in San Diego prior to this was Pro Tour: San Diego held in the year 2010 and won by Simon Gortzen by ending the run of one Luis Scott Vargas whom was going on a undefeated streak with a impressive 16-0 record before taking the title and beating Kyle Boggemes for the title capping off his best event ever in my humble opinion. We venture back even further to 2007 when Time Spiral block was still around and it was the last official pro tour Two-Headed Giant event where the infamous Sliver Kids Jacob van Lunen and Chris Lachmann drafted slivers all weekend long to take the title from the hands of Kentaro Yamamoto and Yuuta Takahashi to take the event in all it's glory and claim their infamous spots on the pro tour and eventually become writers for the mothership. In 2004 there was another Pro Tour here at San Diego with Mirrodin Block this time around and this time it was a norwegian by the name Nicolai Herzog whom dominated the field in limited that year, taking his next victory with a bunch of artifacts.
2002 again San Diego gave birth to another Pro Tour with Winston Draft, for those whom don't remember Winston Draft don't bother it's non existent anymore. But we saw a Frenchman in the form of Farid Meraghni take the title that event and dominate the field. The last time we saw a Grand Prix in San Diego believe it or not was 1999, yes that's a long time ago but let's move onto the current age of magic.
This past weekend was a Innistrad Sealed/Booster Draft with Sealed on Day 1, Booster Draft Day 2 and for the Top 8, but a serious congrats to Shahar Shenhar for winning Grand Prix San Diego beating out Aaron Cheng in the quarters, Ricky Sidher in the semis and then to take the finals against Richard Bland with a undefeated 9-0 in day 2, let's look at the winner's decklist first.
Shahar Shenhar's GP Winning List
Lands
9 Plains
8 Swamp
Creatures
1 Abattoir Ghoul
1 Chapel Geist
2 Doomed Traveler
2 Falkenrath Noble
1 Screeching Bat
1 Selfless Cathar
1 Silverchase Fox
1 Slayer of the Wicked
1 Spectral Rider
1 Thraben Sentry
1 Vampire Interloper
1 Village Bell-Ringer
1 Village Cannibals
Spells
1 Altar's Reap
1 Bonds of Faith
1 Corpse Lunge
1 Moment of Heroism
1 Rebuke
1 Unburial Rites
2 Victim of Night
Sideboard
2 Abbey Griffin
1 Altar's Reap
1 Bramblecrush
1 Cellar Door
1 Curse of Oblivion
1 Full Moon's Rise
1 Ghoulcaller's Chant
1 Hollowhenge Scavenger
1 Nightbird's Clutches
1 Spare from Evil
1 Spidery Grasp
1 Travel Preparations
1 Unruly Mob
1 Urgent Exorcism
1 Village Cannibals
1 Wooden Stake
2 Woodland Sleuth
Anyways a big congratulations goes out to him for taking a 3,500 US prize for the weekend and 10 pro points to his name, but i am afraid that is all the time we have today, i hope you enjoyed this overview of the event and look forward to talking about worlds next week when we learn whom the champion is going to be, the player of the year and whom the last team is going to be winning the event but if you want more coverage of GP: San Diego go to the link below But for now this is vergil signing off.
Grand Prix: San Diego Full Coverage
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