Drafting the World Championship

[Thomas David Baker]

•  Yuuya Watanabe (2012 Players Championship winner)
•  Stanislav Cifka (Pro Tour Return to Ravnica winner)
•  Tom Martell (Pro Tour Gatecrash winner)
•  Craig Wescoe (Pro Tour Dragon's Maze winner)
•  Dmitriy Butakov (2012 Magic Online champion)
•  Josh Utter-Leyton (2012–13 Player of the year)
•  Willy Edel (Top Pro Points, Latin America)
•  Lee Shi Tian (Top Pro Points, Asia Pacific)
•  Eric Froehlich (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  Ben Stark (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  Shuhei Nakamura (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  Brian Kibler (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  Shahar Shenhar (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  Martin Juza (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  David Ochoa (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  Reid Duke (Top Pro Points, at-large)

Pick three players and nominate one of them as your captain (for tiebreaking). 3 points for each win in the World Championship (including the Sunday).

That is some line up even without PV and LSV. How do we go about drafting it? Pick your top 3 including a captain for tie breaks and allow dupes? Or 1-8, 8-1?

magic.bluebones.net/ptdraft/ was quite fun at the last pro tour so let's do something similar for the World Championship.

[Maor Shine]

just glad to see some victory for israel :)

loved the victory speech as well in hebrew...

"would you like to say anything to those watching at home in Jerusalem?"

"good morning, or good evening whatever time it is there now... *asking offscreen* anyone know what time it is there at the moment?" - gets cut off with a 'thank you' - and discussion moves on.

inspiring words !

[ross miles]

I think the whole result has it added up right ... I don't appear to have won ... And as I said at toms yesterday none of my

[ross miles]

Players got to play in the last few rounds so how could they get the same number of points ... Sham the whole thing is a sham

[ross miles]

Of course I meant to start out with the result all being wrong ... What a great series of messages from me ... That's what 6 weeks off does to you ... Everything matters less ... Accuracy, getting up, wearing clean clothes

[Dan Barrett]

Also, how was James Mills not invited to this event?!

[Thomas David Baker]

As discussed in some detail yesterday, the coverage is perfect in every way. But of course we are Magic players so we would never complain about anything anyway.

Mills was invited but he shuffled his plane ticket into his library.

[Daniel Royde]

Remember the play in the finals with an arbor elf + spirit dancer on one side, vs snap mage with electrolyse on the other?
I'm watching the GP coverage, and they've got a section with Shahar and Reid discussing the match. Shahar said he should have killed the spiritdancer! Boom!

[Thomas David Baker]

Should he have killed it on his turn, then, to prevent him drawing a card?

[Daniel Royde]

Didn't think it was in play

[Thomas David Baker]

Ah.