Canali and Nuijten were playing by a set of rules that just don't apply in IPA. In many other draft formats, you will find that by sticking to your colors you can send signals to players downstream from you that will be reciprocated in the next pack. The basic draft strategy has always been to take the best cards and worry about your mana later. It is almost impossible to stick to two colors in IPA draft. Even before landing the black-green behemoth, Remie's deck was rock solid thanks to cards like Trench Wurm, Urborg Drake, and Hypnotic Cloud winding their way to him late in the first pack despite almost no other playables as the packs passed through Canali's and Nuijten's virtual hands. The highlight of Jeroen's draft saw Remie (one of the players most associated with Rock decks in recent memory) opening Rock fixture Spiritmonger on command in the final pack. Not surprisingly, Jeroen was one of three players to run the table in IPA. Their inexperience was Remie's good fortune though, as he fed by the two players in two-thirds of the packs. Invasion/Planeshift/Apocalypse was the first format which did not bode well for Julien Nuijten or Pierre Canali, both of whom had never drafted the format before. IPA DraftĬanali and Nuijten showed their relative inexperience during the IPA Draft. Here's a quick breakdown if you want to catch the highlights of each format. You get an interesting mix of the good fortune, good decks, and good times that way. Instead of trying to watch every single match, I have been skimming the cream off of the top and watching the players with the top results in each format. With more than 120 matches to choose from, I have still barely scratched the surface. Like many of you, I have been watching Invitational replays over the past week.
Had Fujita won over Terry, Jin would have remained on the shelf and Rock Beast would have taken the fan vote. Jeroen Remie did not know it at the time but he should have been rooting for Fujita to win the finals. When Jin, Master of Disruption sees the light of day a year or so from now, it will provide a rematch of sorts as it vies with Fujita's Unluckyman's Paradise in the price guides as the sought-after rares from that set.įujita's card, which was chosen by the fans as the second card from the 16 cards designed by the Invitationalists, easily lapped the competition more than twice as many votes as the next card. Terry's deck had a heavy beatdown sideboard and the two players played a guessing game after Game One - a guessing game Fujita lost when he left his creature control in the sideboard for the second game. The finals closed on Standard and Terry stayed perfect with his Tooth and Nail when he beat Fujita's rareless recursive rat deck. "If I have a chance again, I'm for sure siding in the Oxidize, since turn-one Vial is the only way for him to win.” “I have so much faith in it beating Goblins," he said. Soh said the finals were definitely the most exciting part of the week, but he was disappointed that his Slide deck lost that format. It did not look like fate was going to be on Terry's side after he lost to Tsuyoshi Fujita's goblin deck during Online Extended in the second leg of the finals. "It certainly means a lot to our part of the globe here.” “I was very happy to have the first APAC card ever printed," Soh said. For his efforts, Terry's Jin, Master of Disruption will be featured in an upcoming expansion of Magic: The Gathering - joining past winners' cards, including Meddling Mage, Voidmage Prodigy, and Shadowmage Infiltrator. Malaysia's Terry Soh took the first Magic Invitational title for an APAC player when he beat Japan's Resident Genius Tsuyoshi Fujita in the finals at E3. Terry Soh, Master of the 2005 Invitational.
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