Champions of Kamigawa hit the stores this past weekend and before you could even put Bushido on the stack the Limited Pro Tour Qualifier season for Pro Tour–Nagoya had begun. There were qualifiers all over the world utilizing Champions of Kamigawa Sealed Deck with a Rochester Draft Top 8.
Here on the East Coast of the United States, Rob Dougherty and the YMG gang were hosting one such tournament in lovely Brighton, Mass. There were more than 100 players vying for the invite, pack prizes, and $500 travel award. When the battling came to a close there was a magicthegathering.com columnist holding the elusive blue envelope…
No, it wasn’t me -- the first chance I will have to play in a PTQ this season falls on my wedding anniversary. I got my wife what she wanted, so hopefully I will be able to play. Had I been in Brighton it may have been a different outcome, but it was former magicthegathering.com columnist Chad Ellis making his triumphant return to the Pro Tour after a prolonged absence.
Chad was a fixture on the Pro Tour for a couple of years and had an assigned seat on the so-called Gravy Train. He was a big part of the successful YMG team and wrote extremely popular columns mainstream Magic websites. He has one Pro Tour Top 8 to his credit, when he drafted his way to the final table of Pro Tour–Barcelona.
You know the story. The obligations of the post-college world beckoned and Chad drifted away from the game, living in Germany far away from his support network of New England gamers. As regular readers of magicthegathering.com know, Chad has been back for the past year or so and trying to get back on the Tour. I am happy to report that he was successful in his quest and even happier that he agreed to take some time to talk about his tournament and the current Limited format.
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IN IT TO WIN IT Posted in The Week That Was on October 7, 2004
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/week-was/it-win-it-2004-10-07
プロツアー名古屋の予選、『神河物語』のロチェスタードラフトを勝ち抜いたChad Ellisへのインタビュー記事です。《鼠の墓荒らし/Nezumi Graverobber》などのボムが勝因である様子でした。
その他、余ったマナで《山伏の長、熊野/Kumano, Master Yamabushi》の能力を本体に叩き込んだら、《返礼/Reciprocate》を食らってしまった、というエピソードなどが語られています。
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