Tony Chu, you are the champion of the Legacy Open! Walking all over an aggressive field with U/W Stoneblade, Tony bested a diverse Top 8, including a tough fight against Dredge, before reaching the finals and facing one of his best matchups, Zoo, for the title. Batterskull brought home the bacon, earning Tony Chu the trophy! Meanwhile, Alex Bertoncini continued celebrating his Invitational championship and waltzing his oversized check around the hall to endless congratulations. The Draft Opens were won by well-known grinders Ben Wienburg and Joe Bernal, vindicating a weekend that saw each of them struggling in the main events.
That’s all for @SCGLive in 2011! Thank you so much for following us, watching us, and reading us—your feedback has improved our broadcast by leaps and bounds all year long. We’ll be back in January 2012 for the Atlanta Open Series, featuring Zack Hall and Adrian Sullivan as our commentating duo. We’ll be bringing you over forty events next year around the country, including four Invitationals, so there’s certainly plenty to look forward to. Happy holidays!
Southwestern magician Adam Prosak sat down for the Invitational Top 4 with his trusty playmat laid out in front of him, and double-faced Delver of Secrets at his side.
Fresh off winning the Magic Online World Championships, Reid Duke is looking to add a StarCityGames.com Invitational trophy to his mantle with his Wolf Run White deck.
The veteran Texas player was doing well again in this weekend's Invitational and was kind enough chat with us about his spicy G/W Parallel Lives token deck.
Player of the Year leader Alex Bertoncini is hoping the format change (from Standard to Legacy) will help him rebound from last round's loss to tournament leader Adam Prosak.
This round pitted two of the slowest decks in the room against one another. Harry Corvese’s ugh-creature less U/W control build against the Pat Cox-designed U/B list piloted by Orrin Beasley.
Dan Jordan and his R/G Wolf Run Ramp deck had just taken down Gerry Thompson in a titanic clash near the top of the standings, but reigning Magic Online champion Reid Duke was no slouch himself, and his R/G/W ramp deck was ready for war.
Starting off strong in Legacy, it wasn’t much of a surprise to see Reid performing well in this event—but it was a bit of a surprise to see his weapon of choice.
Player of the Year competitor Gerry Thompson and his opponent Brian Eason are locked in for Day 2 at 6-1, but the winner of this match would be in great shape going into tomorrow, while the loser would fall back to pack.
Brian Kibler was one of the early voices turing heads with Infect this year, playing a list he innovated himself for much of the summer with a few reasonable finishes and a boast-worthy record on Magic Online.
A player on the Open Series for some time, it was no surprise to see Ken Adams at the Charlotte Invitational—and no surprise to see him piloting another patented brew.
It only took Reid Duke two tries at the MOCS to claim the title of champion, besting fifteen of the world’s best online players in San Francisco just a month ago.
Did the knowledge that there would be four rounds of Legacy before any rounds of Standard in the Invitational affect players' deck choices for Standard?
Indianapolis Standard Open champion David Doberne and StarCityGames.com Open regular Christian Valenti shared some friendly chatter as they shuffled up for the round.
After a hugely successful year that culminated in the 2011 Magic: the Gathering Player of the Year title, Owen Turtenwald sat down for battle against Legacy stalwart Michael Caffery in the first round of the StarCityGames.com Invitational.
Tony Chu dropped his deck box and box of dice before the match, spilling the contents all throughout the feature match arena. Was it an omen? And if so, of what?
The players studied each other's decklists before the match, mentally noting the secrets within as they prepared to battle for the right to move onto the finals.
Local area aggro master and cube enthusiast Kenny Mayer is best known for his Battle of Wits Zoo deck in Legacy, but today he came with something more…conventional.
Both Tony Chu and Todd Anderson were in good spirits and ready to battle for the Legacy Open title. The U/W Mirror would be tough, but hopefully the best man would win.
Phillip Braverman, a StarCityGames.com Legacy Open regular, faced a Pro Tour giant this round; Phillip was running a BUG Loam deck, while Gaudenis wielded RUG Delver.
Travis Gibson always joked with friends that Artificer's Intuition was the "good" Survival of the Fittest—and now he's trying to prove it by playing it in the Legacy Open with more combos than you can shake your fist at.
Down to two here in the Standard Open as Stephen Rosenthal and his Solar Flare deck took on Devon Hogan's explosive Tempered Steel deck with the winner taking home the trophy.
Early Saturday morning, John Farrow (Wolf Run White) and Devon Hogan (Tempered Steel) encountered one another in the semis of the StarCityGames.com Standard Open in Charlotte.
Kevin Hamel and Davey Dees were seated at table 3, both 6-1. In a classic matchup in Standard, Kevin was piloting U/W Humans against Davey's Tempered Steel.
At the last Standard Open, Mono Red took it all down. Harold Overbay figured that players would be more prepared this weekend and wanted to think of ways to improve Mono Red's bad matchups.
There aren’t a lot of “firsts” for me in the Magic community, but I took part in just such an event in Charlotte on Friday afternoon. I attended my first judge conference in the hall of our Invitational!
The Rookie of the Year is in contention! Not because of a close race but because of an error that failed to show Open Points for people with fewer than 4. As a result, two people will receive the prize, but only one will receive the title.
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