Yuta Takahashi vs. Willy Edel | Round 7 | Magic World Championship XXIX 

Top-level Magic and they can't even pause the game for a moment to rewind the stream and watch him lay down a forest? We have the technology, but I don't understand why they wouldn't use it.

It's a decent angle shoot if you're into that sort of thing.

I had to finish the video before I formed a full opinion. But I think its actually great to have the tension of a real tournament. A tournament is nothing without its rules enforcement (much like a game without obeying the rules is playing a different version of the game). I kinda wish Willy didn't ask for a concession, but I think I am just upset because he played an extra land even though they could have just watched the footage to determine it. After he kept asking the same question, I wish a Judge would have asked him to keep better track of his land drops each turn.

Yuta was a winner here

1. There is 128 players. It just takes one match each round going for an extra hour and the players would need to play for 7 more hours. That would make the tournament hell for everyone (especially viewers). 2. The players all got here with timers it would be weird to change the rules suddenly (may sometimes affect the metagame).

sorry for the late response, but if you were still wondering this is actually Standard. Some really strong cards in the weakest constructed format right now.

Players are given 50 minutes to complete their best of 3 match. Both players had a win and in game 3 their time expired. Once time has been called, players are given an additional 5 turns to resolve the game with turn 0 starting with the active player. If at the end of the 5 extra turns there is still no winner, the match is a draw. Edel asks Yuta if he will concede the game because Edel was in a clearly winning position if the game continued. Yuta agreed to concede, so Edel won by concession. This matters because both players have 3-3 records and a draw would knock both of them out of top 8 contention, whereas with one of them winning only one would be knocked out. Yuta conceding knocked him out of the running but gave Edel a chance to continue in the tournament with a shot at top 8.

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