Hello all and welcome back to another edition of the emporium, after i've given the game in card form, let's talk about something that's more recent like i don't know Worlds 2011 for Magic, oh yeah that's this weekend so this will be probably the only time i get to talk about it, this weekend we're gonna see a lot happen, Hall of Fame Inductions will happen obviously, Legacy/Modern and Standard for the team events will also happen, as well as Draft, Standard and of course the Top 8 where it's always standard at worlds. Also after worlds we will be seeing some Dark Ascension maybe early december, middle of december, or perhaps they will do it like last year where they previewed two cards at Worlds, i'm looking at you Mirran Crusader and Phyrexian Crusader. But enough talk about last year's cards let's see the results of the event after the grand finale of the top 8/team finals competition, starting with the team competition.
The team competition as it is this year was down to the wire with Japan and Norway leading the way into the top 8 live webcast, but only one could come on top, however it's not to say it wasn't a boring team competition to be honest, we had Modern, Standard and Legacy matches taking place at the same time, with the respective team members of each running specific decks, in the standard portion it was Ryuchiro Ishida's White/Green Wolf Run Ramp deck vs Kristoffer Johnson's White Green Tokens build while in the Modern table side it was Sveinung Bjørnerud's Big Zoo deck vs the Pester Twin deck of Makihito Mihara. Legacy saw itself a barn burner of a deck spree with Fujimoto Tomoya's Show and Tell deck vs the awesome raw power of Andreas Nordahl's No Cat Zoo deck, however there could be only one with the team of Japan taking the title in a convincing 2-0 sweep, making it so simple it wasn't even funny.
In the regular edition of the top 8, we saw all 4 members of Channel Fireball take on their respective opponents, all the members being Luis Scott Vargas, Paulo Vitor Damo Da Rosa, Conley Woods and of course Josh Utter Leyton all running the exact same deck this weekend which was believe it or not Tempered Steel, the exact same build for all the respective players, but a bit of good news for you canadian fans, we got a canadian in the top 8 of this year's worlds by the name of David Caplan whom was running Mono Red this weekend against one PVDDR for short, we saw their match was a barn burner and would have given anyone a run for the edge of their seats. But in the end again the one whom was crowned world champion was of course Junya Iyanaga whom showed wolf run ramp can indeed get the job done at the big show, we look forward to seeing you at worlds next year.
Anyways the Player of the Year race was a little different this time around, with of course having a few challengers this time around, but we know it was going to be an american as Player of the Year this year, but a big congrats go out Owen Turtenwald for winning the title but that is all she wrote for this year's event in short, this was a excellent event overall and proved that worlds went out in a blaze of glory, however this was the last time we get to see something like this with the new worlds format taking over next year at Gen Con in Indy but until next time this is vergil signing off, for full detailed coverage of the event go to the link below.
Worlds 2011 Coverage
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