Pro Tour Kaladesh Finals: Shota Yasooka vs. Carlos Romao 

Control vs Control. The ultimate test of who is more controllier.

have to say, this was one of my favorite PT finals that I've watched. I actually enjoy Control mirrors, and this one is a treat to watch

Okay, since everyone is leaving comments on this, I'll just say it here... if you get all the way to 58-59 minutes in, Marshall and LSV discuss the untapped fast land that shota put down. They said they didn't catch it right away so they couldn't rewind to check the tape, but the judges gave him a warning and moved on.

I love to go back and watch this match, I've seen it 5 or 6 times now. Such a masterclass in the control mirror and the analysis from Luis and Marshall is incredible. Probably one of my favorite matches of magic to watch.

My favorite pro tour finale in a long time.

looked away for like 10 mins and suddenly they had 20 lands each in play

Game 1 is one of the best games played ever.

LOL homie just playing with his fucking nose for like half a minute

Seeing all the Japanese pros run up to congratulate Shouta was awesome to see, so glad he won this one and it was so nice to revisit this awesome finals match. Congrats to shouta and great job Japan!

Shota makes 1 mistake the whole pro tour and I guess that means he should be stripped his pro tour title. Shota is my favorite player and never intentionally cheats or cheats at all. It was a simple mistake that the judges or Carlos should have caught. But taking someone's title because the judge didn't see something that was accidental is blasphemous.

37:15 marshall: and that means that dovin baan is gonna die lsv: hit the Dovin Bin there jesus lsv you are just too much

i don't play blue but i love watching this control vs control match up. awesome!

Shota Yasooka is such a boss :3

Anyone who believed even for a second that Yasooka cheated: Are you suggesting hall of Famer shota yasooka knowingly made an illegal move... in the FINALS? While literally the match is being live commented on by another hall of famer? AND broadcasted out live to countless fans? And his opponent Is a former world champion? And there is a table judge watching the match? AND three other spotters? You think one of the smartest magic players ever looked at that situation and thought to himself... "yeah, yknow what, nobody will notice." The fact that nobody DID notice does not make it any less insane for him to think nobody would notice in that spot. Obviously that's silly and cannot be true. The only reasonable alternative: mistake. Missed by everyone. Which, obviously it was anyway lol. Anyone with eyes could see that

man, i miss this type of Magic. Yknow, great players in person

This was a beautiful game to watch, and makes me miss old school magic very much.

Sometimes I have trouble sleeping. So I put on a control mirror match and I fall asleep waiting for something to happen

Look at Yasooka and his plethora of Guru Island's and Swamp's. Big spender, he is.

Congratulations Shotah playah! You surely deserved the title!

Shota 4 President

Counter magic is the baan of my existance.

Pfff... nice matches and for control really intense (also tnx to the nice commentating btw.) ... Congrats to both players, and obviously Shota in particular as the winner... ps. also tnx for putting this up on youtube, really nice to view this in hind side and enjoy the magic.

I disliked the video because you couldn't hear the interview translation at the end because the guy didn't hold the mic up to them.

Tremendous! Shota won Bigly!

To all the people hating on Yasooka for the untapped fastland, even if it did win him that game (which it might not have), he probably would have won the match even if he had lost that game.

What is the point of the judge watching? Shota plays a land untapped when it shouldn't be then uses it to cast spells, results in a game warning after the match. Shota goes to untap 2 lands while Dovin Baan ult is up and the judge is like "Whoa there son, you can only untap 2 permanents....oh that's what you're doing? okay then" Carlos goes into the next turn with a fumarole up because of the archangel trigger and the judge is like "Whoa there son, why is that fumarole alive? oh because of the avacyn trigger? I would know that if I was actually watching the game? I'm only half paying attention here, be more interesting" How come this guy is noticing all these things that aren't happening and missing things that are?

"Not actually painful, and definitely the truth." LSV

Those guru basics are beautiful for shota.

32:45

Did Luis and Marshall co-ordinate their haircuts deliberately?

opening vid of carlos and im rooting for him because of that lol

Don't want to accuse anyone but I saw fastlands enter untapped when they were supposed to be tapped from Shota and Carlos put a lot of cards in the wrong place (exile/graveyard).

32:45 Untaped fastland with 4 lands ...mmmm.

How come 6 people are standing right next to them and 2 people are commentating and NOONE SEES THE UNTAPPED CANAL. I don't know if he did it on purpose or not, but I do know there are several people whose only job is to make sure that the rules are complied with and several other people whose job involves watching what's going on. IS EVRYONE BLIND? This shit just keeps happening in top level Magic. How is it even possible? It took me about 0.1 secs to realise it and I don't consider myself a very focused observator. Also, how does Romao not see it...? Just to be clear, I'm not a Yasooka hater, in fact I was cheering for him. I'm just a hater of incompetent judges.

top notch editing at the end.

so to anyone crying about shoota making that land play. the actual dci penalty in a pt is for a warning. not a game loss. not stripping him of his title. by all accounts shoota is an honest player. it was likely a mistake. they cant prove otherwise anyways. so game play error - game rule violation. and in response to the chapin thing his penalty for failure to reveal is actually a game loss. I don't think he should have got the loss since it was literally the only card in his hand that could have been revealed his opponent knew all the other cards in his hand from the courser of kruphix I believe and it was still the top card that was most likely going to get played in that same turn but rules are rules as most of the criers are saying. so rules are rules. shoota should have received a warning. which he did. according to the rules.

1:15 :D

This is what I wanted to see. No fucking Rhinos, no 3-drop creature slugfests, just the good old "pass with 14 lands untapped"-kind of magic that I loved ever since I was young.

My favorite grand finals

Great game! Fun to watch.

those wore the strongest cards i have ever seen

What an insane match. Great Magic.

YAY time to find what I have to play around with all the netdeckers on the field

Can any control players here give me an idea why Shota went with splashing red instead of white for his deck? Was Unliscensed Disintegration and Radiant Flames the sole reasons?

masterly win from Shota!

All the Yasooka haters crying about an honest mistake at 32:45.

likeeee caraka as batalhas estao serradas

Anyone know the significance of the beaded necklaces they are both wearing?

Lol look at all the edge lords here screaming about the fastland coming into play untapped. It's not like they didn't address it in the video either. Get over yourselves guys. It's an honest mistake and an easy one to make, especially when under that much pressure.

good times

Game one, I would have Animated the land instead of playing summary dismissal, traded or bounced lands, and glared the second land because I can keep plussing Dovin on the gearhulk.

Does Shota play with English/American style cards?

GO SHOTA!

41:31 isnt it a decently big missplay from shota to not play thing in the ice first, then jace, then counterspells

Did they actually drop him at the end?

nice control match nice to see

Where was the point where there were counterspells countered back and forth?

What are those necklaces

Can’t believe he won game two yasooka is one nasty boy playing control decks I wouldn’t want to be the one sitting across the table from him in a tournament if it was a high stakes match. He would easily end my run at any point if it was to make day two or to get into top 8 or even for the final assuming u would make it to any of those places I would assume that is where I would be getting knocked out.

what did the judge tell Carlos at 28:00 ?

YEEES GRIXIS 4 LYFE!

Best moment of PTKLD finals: Dovin Bin

Im curious why did the harnessed lightning kill the Avacyn at 11:55? Isnt Avacyn indestructible?

0:50 I only saw one heavyweight.

Hi there lady judge, I wonder what is your name~

my man got the prayer beads going on

Draw-Go is back, boyz!

32:46 how the fast land come into play untapped?

Listing/linking deck lists in description would have been useful...

are they playing magic or showing their deck lands?

What's up with the necklace?

What was the first land played by Shota in the very first match?

why archangel avacyn died if she gives indestract at all?

Part of his gameplan was to just let card draw spells resolve. Pro level player letting someone playing control gain card advantage WHILE PLAYING CONTROL HIMSELF! card advantage is the only way control works. He relied to much on Shota decking that he just let him get everything he needs to win this.

YOOOOOOO THOSE GURU LANDS FFS I WANT THEM ALL TT

I wonder if elder deep fiend would have good synergy with these two control deck?

why do they wear those necklaces?

28:00 Avacyn is indestuctible until end of turn ,no? galvanic bombardment doesn't work ?

at 31:52, who is the guy in the cap and dapper vest + girl in the business suit? Are they judges too?

magic is back

Full of lands baby full of lands

I love shouta

51:19 Yasooka fortgot to flip the dice to 2 after Void Shatter.

question, i haven't played since dragons. What are the counters off to the left of each player?

That one mountain bothers me

anyone catch shota's fourth land in game 2 was a fast land? how did it come into play untapped? at 33:35 mark.

At 32:45 Shota plays a Spirebluff Canal untapped (he has 3 lands at this point, so Spirebluff should come in tapped), passes, then uses all of his lands to play Glimmer of Genius. Isn't that, I don't know, cheating? None of the judges noticed this or said anything?

What's up with Shota's mountains? All the other basics are gurus.

32:45 , the turn starts, Shota plays a fastland UNTAPped but it's his 4th land. Seems like cheating since he's playing Glimmer of Genius at Carlos' next end step.

Not saying Shota cheated on purpose, but he should have been given a game loss in game 1. I understand that it was probably an accident, but the rules are the rules and that miss by the judges gave him a pretty significant advantage in the game.

5 damage to gear hulk when it got 6 life another legit move come on people

All these aggro decks in standard and the top match is a control mirror. Mmmm.

Two control decks in the finals. Riveting

Yakoosa

Omg.... NOTHING IS HAPPENING!!!!!!!

1:18

32:44 3 lands in game and a fastland untapped? cheat for cast a glimmer of genius? Mr. Yasooka, you are a cheater!

32:45 lol fast land untapped with 3 other lands... JUDGE

I hate to say it but in the last turn of game four he could have wandering fumaroled, blocking, then immolating glare, then tapped the blocking man land for mana for a negate. that could have forced another turn for him, which he probably wouldn't have won on, but even so, how did he not see that? I swear the best mtg gets played in actually complicated games like casual commander

Y'know, Luis Scott-Vargas is an adorable little turd, isn't he? :3c