Magic: The Gathering Players Tour
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Sep 12, 2026
Benji NaesenHOST
I'm shocked.
Benji NaesenHOST
Last year you got second in the Pro Tour stage behind Bernal?
Patrick BroeHOST
Yeah, that's
Benji NaesenHOST
right.
Luis Scott-VargasHOST
Sorry, that's not true.
Luis Scott-VargasHOST
My ideal way, my favorite way to play Magic, is sitting down and cracking a pack at the Pro Tour.
Luis Scott-VargasHOST
Uh, you know.
Marshall SutcliffeHOST
There you go.
Luis Scott-VargasHOST
Rou- ri- It's hard to beat day one of the Pro Tour.
Luis Scott-VargasHOST
It's all...
Luis Scott-VargasHOST
Like, you're cracking your pack.
Marshall SutcliffeHOST
Like, especially the Friday draft when it's, like, electric and everybody still-
SierkovitzHOST
It's, uh, completely changes how, uh, you're drafting.
SierkovitzHOST
And we've seen that in, um, pod composition when there is a very different drafting at the Pro Tour, there is a very different drafting in best of three queues, and there are very different drafting in best of one queues.
SierkovitzHOST
Best of one itself changes a lot because you draft decks differently.
SierkovitzHOST
For example, you are not going to put so much weight on cards that you would love to have in your sideboard, and you're gonna pick something else, which leads to slightly different decks.
SierkovitzHOST
Like, if I wanted to explore every nook and cranny of pick-two drafting, I probably would be sitting here until the morning and then went straight to do my eight-hour lecture, uh, tomorrow.
SierkovitzHOST
But, uh, I decided to focus on specific characteristics of the draft, and I...
SierkovitzHOST
Hopefully by the end of it, I'm going to make an argument that pick-two drafts are more similar to the Pro Tour pods than best-of-one drafts.
SierkovitzHOST
Let's see how that will land with you.
LizHOST
Yeah,
DJHOST
we're kind of back to old GP days, old Grand Prixs where it's an open entry, anybody can go and just try your luck at getting on the Pro Tour and... playing your silly little contraption i i have a friend who like got back into modern for this event and like dusted off their tron deck and just like made it made a few quick changes and they started off 4-0 went down to 4-3 but like they had a good time um i'm sure there were some people just enduring the psychosis of seeing tron for the first time in like five years in a modern setting just throw out their game maybe a little
LizHOST
bit tron's been good recently in modern like uh the mox brady monroe won the mox with aldrazi tron Okay.
LizHOST
Fair enough.
Sasha EggerGUEST
shit wasn't working.
Sasha EggerGUEST
Basically, because the Magic Pro Tour doesn't exist, and the standard format that they do, it doesn't even exist really anymore.
Sasha EggerGUEST
I think it's mainly just online.
Sasha EggerGUEST
It's basically just kind of died out, which is...
MikeHOST
This isn't, like, some...
MikeHOST
This isn't some country that doesn't get a Pro Tour every year, okay?
RichHOST
Yeah.
MikeHOST
Right? Like, you know, like, the...
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MikeHOST
this is like a pretend Magic: The Gathering card, right?
RichHOST
Yeah, this was, like, when they were first rolling those out, like, that, back when they were kind of cool in the early 2010s.
MikeHOST
Yeah, so, like, Patrick Chapin was the first ever R&D intern, so there are a lot of things that I learned from him that, like, I think the average Magic: The Gathering player, even, like, an old head or, like, a Pro Tour player or whatever, just doesn't understand.
MikeHOST
Like, we were covering some Legacy deck, and it had, like, all these weird cards in it that I don't know the names of, but it was, like, tapping and untapping these...
SpencerHOST
Easily.
SpencerHOST
Former Pro Tour player, Magic Pro Tour.
JoshHOST
Correct me if I'm wrong, but only one of us has beaten Pat Chapin in a PTQ final.
SpencerHOST
This is true.
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JasonHOST
Play what you're comfortable on.
JasonHOST
I think that's sound advice for every big tournament unless there is just something that is head and shoulders above everything else and there's a broken piece in the format then yeah you should probably be playing that
JoshHOST
yeah and i and there's one other piece to that that i'd like to add on to i think you're 100 right about those points other piece to add on to that is play what you enjoy okay this is pre-modern there's no pro tour okay there there's no like if you win the whole thing you get a serious sanctum but if 128 players walk in only one person wins the sanctum my thought is i want to play a deck that if i go one and six on the day i want to play a deck that i enjoy losing six of my seven rounds with I'd rather not play a deck that I hate playing and then just have a miserable day and then don't enjoy it at all.
JoshHOST
So I play for both scenarios.
Shivam BhattHOST
Hello, and welcome to Casual Magic, the show where we talk about the fun side of magic together.
Shivam BhattHOST
My name is Sheevan Putt, and Casual Magic is brought to you by Quiver and my patrons at patreon.com. Today, I'm super excited to have one of the funniest and, like, just most pleasant content creators and, I don't know, Pro Tour winners that I've gotten the chance to watch and run into, Taralf Zevran, a.k.a. Toffle, because that R is real hard for all of us Americans.
Shivam BhattHOST
And yeah, dude, I'm super excited.
Shivam BhattHOST
Like you do all these videos for card market.
Shivam BhattHOST
You do all these delightful like shows with every format of magic.
Shivam BhattHOST
And, uh, I remember watching you win the pro tour and just how excited and happy and cool it was.
Shivam BhattHOST
And I'm like, that's a dude I want to know because like, like I, I don't mean to bag on like the pro tour as much because I love the pro tour, but so many people who were like at the high levels of competition are very stone faced all the time.
Thoralf SeverinGUEST
Yeah, there's a discrepancy of playing higher level and excluding your emotions because you're eventually going to lose and win a lot.
DaveHOST
and moving out the other end of it, we seem to be lacking a few, like, should we just say storylines that could be told out here? Like, again, you know, you've got the storyline with Sean Goddard, someone who's done really, really well recently, but, you know, like, with the way that the tours go, has fallen off, has got this spotlight here, can literally find themselves back on the top tables.
DaveHOST
Like, how important that is and what you could be telling Aspiring Spike making a Pro Tour would be so sick.
DaveHOST
You got Scotty McNamara, like, all the way at the top again, like, out of nowhere.
DaveHOST
There's
DaveHOST
So you get the prestige of the fact that you...
DaveHOST
Yeah, so
ScottHOST
then if you win a spotlight or you win a Pro Tour, you get your name on a secret lairdrop.
DaveHOST
and you get and you get one like you like and and you randomly say one out like 100 of them are serialized and you let the winner have one out of 100 so unless we serialize on the box we're not saying anything special the cards oh my days that would be the coolest thing that would have everyone playing all these events didn't
Cliff DaigleHOST
First, we've got our metagame week in review.
Cliff DaigleHOST
We've got to go over a pro tour that was modern.
Cliff DaigleHOST
We've got to go over a standard showcase.
Cliff DaigleHOST
We've got to talk about our top movers in paper.
Cliff DaigleHOST
Let's get into it.
James ChilcottHOST
Kicking things off here at the Medigame Week in Review, we were...
James ChilcottHOST
All eyes glued to the monitors for Pro Tour Amsterdam this past weekend, which was a mix of Modern and Marvel Limited, 362 players.
James ChilcottHOST
The thing that was a little odd, I thought here, was that the top eight was Draft instead of Modern.
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