So that's what next month's FNM card of choice is, Pillar of Flame which is not a half bad choice for a promo card, yes this will be the November Friday Night Magic promotion card and as per usual only a few of these will be given out by each store, each week, nice choice on the promo card wizards considering the popularity of this card.
More of next year's Grand Prix schedule has been announced and wow there's a whole slew of North American dates on this list, for those wanting to see it, please following the link which i will be posting at the end of the article, including one format i never thought we'd see, Modern Masters Booster Draft, which was announced bewteen rounds 13 and 14 of Pro tour Return to Ravnica will be taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada on the 22nd and 23rd of June 2013, this sounds like it's already heating up to a epic proportion since this is a one time event, I cannot wait to talk about the aftermath of this event in June, I'm so excited.
It seems that Eggs as a deck in modern proved it was the underdog deck of choice, going almost a perfect record at Pro Tour: Return to Ravnica in the hands of the Chech Republic's own Stanislav Cifka whom piloted the deck beautifully, being the complete and unknown underdog in the field to a near undefeated streak in the swiss rounds, 15-1, losing only once to a Infect player by the name of Kelvin Chew whom was piloting this Blue/Black/Green infect deck of choice to combat the under dog deck, but overall it was a exciting pro tour with the Eggs deck, which took the crown. Before the event however we saw the four inductees get their customary rings and such, putting them into the hall of fame class for 2012, let's review whom they were
#1) Patrick "The Innovator" Chapin
#2) Paulo Vitor Damo Da Rosa
#3) Kenji Tsumura
#4) Masashi Oiso
A very well deserved congratulations is in order for being voted in this year guys, you all make the game so much fun to play in all respects, now we look forward to 2013's class to see who gets the big vote in at the last pro tour next year.
Grand Prix time, as per usual for each monthly, we only had 2 events this month besides the obvious Pro Tour date which happened bewteen those, Grand Prix San Jose, of which a certain celebrity starcraft commentator was there, yes Sean "Day9" Plott whom attended his first ever event in the team sealed return to ravnica booster draft, go see Round 5 for his feature match which i will also post below at the end of the article. But in San Jose there could be only 1 team, that team was Matt Spearling, Paul Rietzl and David Willams whom made their way into the finals of the San Jose event, beating out Lucas Siow, Maksym Gryn and Jamie Naylor to win the event.
Grand Prix Philadephia was a totally different story, with it being a singles event where as this time it was Sealed/Booster drafting, of course drafting Return to Ravnica in the process, but there could only be one winner for the event and that was Shuhei Nakamura and his great run at the event, beating both Luis Scott-Vargas and Martin Juza before shredding through the finals to win his 5th GP this weekend, congrats man.
With the upcoming set of Gatecrash, apparently the name of the latest buy-a-box promo card was spoiled earlier this month, it's a card called "Nightveil Specter" which sounds black to be quite honest, it's defintely a rare in this set, though we will have to wait and see if it is Dimir or Orzhov guild based, since it seems like one of the two, I will of course keep you posted on this. Well that brings a end to this month's edition of the news, with lots of covered topics, stay tuned next month, were we talk about more magic the gathering related news, until then this is vergil signing off.
Day9 Coverage Video --- Round 5 Coverage
2013 Grand Prix Schedule --- GP Updated Schedule
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