Pro Tour Hour of Devastation Finals: Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa vs. Samuel Pardee 

Benjamin Burt Very glad to see a rational, objective and challenging comment here. Thank you!

way better than modern imo.

The pro tour is the pinnacle tournament. Besides the World Championship, this is the one people tune in to, and the one that is hyped the most. Saying "look, this GP had different results than the pro tour almost 3 years ago" is not a good argument. This pro tour contained 6 of the same deck (ok, that one guy splashed black, but I'm counting it). Pro tour Amonkhet, 4 marvel decks, 3 zombie decks. PT Aether Revolt, 6 copies of Mardu Vehicles. PT Kaladesh had some variance. That's 4 PTs back. Are people really suggesting that this is a good thing? There's no problem there? Because to me, this seems like a worst case scenario, net decking is the only way to win. I don't want to play that way, and I'm surprised anyone does.

Benjamin Burt please stop saying cancerous, you are literally part of the scourge in this community that are fucking losers that make me cringe

Cavemantero then don't watch, simple solution to a simple problem

Willie Gross he has said on Twitter he did not want to start celebrating out of respect for his friend whome just lost a pro tour finals.

I met him once in Brazil, nicest guy around the shop

Look at standard now, Perfect.

the translation is something like "Paulo Vitor the Rose Dame"

Not only, but also. He could've won that game 3-0 if he didn't make himself a mistake playing hazoret instead of falkenrath + open mana for abrade. Anyway, it was very well deserved, congrats!

Ed Findlay that's like saying he only won because a car didn't hit him on his way to the pro tour. Point being anyone who wins a pro tour got lucky at some point but most of the time it's Less clear luck(drawing a better mix of cards) and alot is of camera. This time it was very clear luck and on camera. The point is the put your self in as many possible situations to get lucky and to take full advantage when you do get lucky. That's what skill is about, not to be able to win without luck.

Sure you werent there when the archetype won 2 pro tours in a row 2 years ago.

bu yeah is nice to see it again

Aggro and tempo decks are the most entertaining thing to watch in magic for sure these top 8 games were all so intense.

I consider aggro decks in every format to be "keeping the bastards honest" its a great entry point into a lot of formats and setting the benchmark for efficient fast wins.

Axel Bloodmoon simple mistake. Remember, he drew hazoret and LSV was pretty sure he was going to play it. He played earthshaker khenra instead, either way the result is the same; last creature made the attack lethal. For all intents and purposes, whether he played hazoret or khenra made no difference; pretty sure he played khenra in case Pardee had an answer for it, so he could still play hazoret next turn with almost guaranteed lethal.

It wasn't wrong. Playing Hazoret *would* have won the game there as well. In fact, both eternalizing the Khenra and playing Hazoret would win the game assuming that Pardee has no removal (this happened to be the case). It's just that PVDDR went for the slightly safer play. If Pardee has a Grasp of Darkness, then he survives the attack either way. However, in the case of playing hazoret, he gets to deal with a very resilient threat, whereas against the eternalized Khenra, he is forced to waste his removal on a low value threat, leaving PVDDR with Hazoret ready to go next turn. Marshall saw the obvious route to victory. Most of the times, that play would still have given PVDDR the win, as he had a substantial advantage. But PVDDR (being the pro player he is) saw that eternalizing the Khenra was a slightly safer play (if PVDDR was able to Grasp Hazoret, and then had removal the following turn for Glorybringer, he might have been able to come back. That line of play is much much worse against an eternalized khenra).

no your right. he eternalized the khenra, but all of the announcers said that Hazoret won the game... haha (my conspiracy theory is they did that to push sales of Hazoret lmao) oh and did you see Luis-Scott Vargas face when he said that? XD kills me dead

welcome to competitive magic...sigh

Franzdodlmann the match is being live broadcast near the match for people to watch, so they want to make sure they don't hear any of the commentary or oeehh and AAaaass from the crowd.

TheWeirdestDinosaur is he going to be your commander? Bc planeswalkers can't

Magic Miles yes

TheWeirdestDinosaur not possible

Franklin J Molley no John is

Long way to go to surpass Jonh Finkel but he has a fair chance at it. Motherfcking Finkel has 16 protour top 8s, and of course there is Kai Budde with 7 (7!!!!!!!!!!) protour wins.

@@Jans6everwow it’s been a while. now pvdr is tied with finkel for most top 8s and second most wins

okay they switch even earlier it appears...

No, they never switch decks, but each player has 15 cards in there sideboard that they can swap after each game.

they shuffle eachother's deck, to prevent rigging a good card into your opening hand. They give it back afterwards.

Judge communication and to prevent outside interference.

Dante it also enables them to communicate their actions to each other without being drowned out by other noise.

stop crying

what's cancerous is how fucking much the player base whines about decks or players, grow up!

Starkesis teams were a thing long before wotc introduced it.

How is this worse than Aetherworks Marvel or Saheeli Combo? Please. Just because you don't like linear aggro decks? Neither do I, but usually if a linear aggro deck is tier one that means the format is pretty healthy.

no matter what Wizards does, people will complain...it's unfortunate. Almost always a lose-lose.

Oh, I didn't say that marvel or S. combo was good, it was like like diarrhea. It's just not healthy when win depends of who start first, because everyone play red. You just can't deal with this pressure that red deck makes for first couple rounds, if you do, most of the time chandra is entering to empty board. Didn't mention Glory bringers and hezerets. Mana base for this deck is also like wtf,. All untap lands and 12 damage only in lands. Every red deck want this kind of mana base. Only bw control with life gain could deal with that, and it will end like every standard for last couple of years. 2 maybe 3 decks that are competitive, and wizards will do shit about it.

What an obnoxious comment. Grow up.

normally the first months after a new realease brings a bunch o aggro decks. just wait a bit and the more controlish or combo decks appear ;)

Lucas Kellermann life total for them