Watch the complete finals from Pro Tour Return to Ravnica between Stanislav Cifka and Yuuya Watanabe. Format: Modern Visit www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine... for complete coverage of the Pro Tour.
Stanislav made what every magic player wants to do: Go to a Pro Tour with a innovating deck that you invented and nobody is playing and win the tournament. with that deck.
I don't understand the Cifka hate. He is a very prepared player and made an almost perfect read of the Modern metagame. He came from almost nowhere with his deck and lost only one match in the entire weekend. He basically steamrolled through Jund, Robots, other combos, anything. This is a brilliant deck. This is top level Magic. He deserved that win.
I used to hate watching this mostly because of the sighing, and the very tedious frustration of it all. But I came to appreciate it for little things, like Cifka AND Wantanabe giggling at the end of the round, because even Cifka recognizes the complete absurdity of this situation.
There is that too lol. Combo decks are some of the most beautiful creations in the game. That's what I love about magic. It's like this puzzle, with every piece in front of you, and all you have to do is find the right parts that click in place, and you can do some pretty gnarly shit.
Though I would dread to play with or against it, I have to say that Cifka's _Second Breakfast_ is quite an impressive deck, from both a mechanical and creative perspective. It's a well-oiled death machine that repeatedly takes its time to grind you down in a very consistent-but-inefficient way!
Wow. I'm so impressed on how good of a sport he was, he let Watanabe respond to every trigger in a very friendly way and kept on smiling and being humble to the very end. Even after Watanabe screwed over his grape shot by gaining life he wasn't disheartened and was willing to go through the motions again. That's how a champion should be: humble, kind, and strong willed.
It was this Pro Tour that made me want to build Eggs. Because of a lack of transport to get the cards I needed, I kinda stopped making the deck. But I did pick it up and build it last year. It's fun, but all the Grave hate means it's not that viable. Not at the same level it was here.
+ZakanaHachihaCBC Zac Elsik managed to come up with a pretty disgusting and almost consistent list for Eggs. Has 2 win cons and is a lot faster in execution than this previous eggs version. themeadery.org/b/zacelsik/read/poached-eggs-in-modern/
As someone who started playing magic during 4th edition ice age years thank you for showing the cards that you are talking about on the side. I was just curious about the game and got in a mood to watch a game and its nice to see the cards to have that refrence.
I'm so glad how much magic coverage has progressed since this. You can hear the players over the commentators, theres large periods of silence from the commentators, any newish player will be completely lost trying to keep up
Ya same enjoy watching eggs trying to make eggs be amazing again kind of difficult but I am running 4 bring to light and 4 faiths reward which has been doing amazing I am running more disruption like silence and rebuke in the mb
What this looks like when you are not into Magic too much: Cifka juggles his card for 5 minutes, then something magic happens and watanabe surrenders. :D
I love that a good and honest combo deck has finally won a Pro Tour after so long. It's about time they got their time again. And what a fun deck it is.
Just replace it with open the vaults and replace something with Krak-clan iron works and put an emrakrul in there and grinding station and bam. Modern legal
I remember watching this the day it happened, going to the next event building the deck and then it got banned the week after. Since then every Modern deck ive built has had something banned LOL
Everyone started playing it and yes it takes long but more specifically people were abusing it by winning game one then purposely going to time so they'd win, also people were going to 5 turns but since it's all one turn they would play for sometimes a half hour or more past time in the round which is unfair for everyone waiting around in a 10 round tournament
So even now so far away from this pt it's so entertaining to watch when eggs was an insane deck. Granted it's still okay but no sunrise is sad. This is so much fun to watch and the absurdity of how much it took to win in game 5 this was so much fun.
It's still fun to play. some fun additions have been Alter of the Brood (go for a mill win strategy) and Edge of Autumn as an instant speed draw that works with Faiths Reward or Open the Vaults.
Because some people don't like fun. And it's more like the uncertain combo decks they hate like Eggs here. Eggs can go off but then fizzle, so you have to see the deck be played out.
Second Sunrise, when it was printed, was a very very unique effect. It's good to see some redundancy now with Faith's Reward. I absolutely love this deck. It is a triumph of true innovation.
Hilbert França one of my friends tried to use an eggs-based strategy at Modern Monday here in Pensacola and it was exhausting just to WATCH him play it. it was nuts.
The pro tours tend to be a cycle, all based around a set, so last season we had: Pro Tour Return to Ravnica, which was Triple RTR Draft and Modern, followed by PT Gatecrash, which was Triple Gatecrash draft, and Standard, and the last one of this season, that just finished was Pro Tour Dragon's Maze, which was Return to Ravnica Block Draft (Return to Ravnica, Gatecrash and Dragon's Maze Booster draft), and Block constructed.
I am not. I mean, this perpetuates the stereotype of competitive magic being difficult to get into. Price for Mox Opal? Lilliana of the Veil? Tharmogoyf? At least this deck was unique, it would be annoying to play against, but the meta has been the same for 5+ years in general.
After the ban of second sunrise eggs players (such as myself) just tweaked the numbers and put in KCI and open the vaults. It's not the best deck but it is a fun one.
Holy fucking shit. I thought 'I'll watch magic for a minute or 2'... Holy shit. 2 hours later, and what a beast of a deck what the fuck. How many cards of that are still legal?
