Pro Tour Gatecrash Round 12: Melissa DeTora vs Gerry Thompson

Pro Tour Gatecrash Round 12: Melissa DeTora vs Gerry Thompson

[@codebroker_]

I could watch this whole pro tour for days. Best standard format ever!

[@zivkobabz]

I honestly feel invasion block was the best meta ever it was when we evolved into these archetypes before that in masques and nemesis you had a horrible meta with wierd legendaries singlehandedly winning games artifact control and stuff like that.

[@colebeeler3637]

Cole Vohs @

[@imjusthere750]

More like the worst format!

[@69Yosiel69]

Two of my favorite players, I'm glad that KZbin remind me of this PT so I could give it a like, it was one of the best I've seen.

[@robbiestrong-morse730]

Can't agree more

[@joshuaderpinghaus5104]

For those people complaining about mellessa cheating, you guys are blind. She farseeked for a land, started shuffling and passed turn. Gerry then augored and passed turn back. Mellessa then augured for farseek after playing another land, allowing her two land in one turn. It's all in the round 3 part.

[@kaifowler6832]

Joshua Derpinghaus Melisa* please don't be mad just trying too help you out

[@PerryOfFire]

It's amazing how eye opening videos like this are, where the pros are going head to head and despite everything it all boils down to one card... It shows me just how much I still have left to learn...

[@dawidgrab1228]

And four years later mellisa has played with the command zone and works at wizards

[@ijuhi]

And Gerry has won a pro tour.

[@chrisgould101]

Cos she's a wahmen All about diversity

[@thonk7611]

@@chrisgould101 have you considered that maybe she is really intelligent is good at magic and cares about the game somewhat?

[@chrisgould101]

@@thonk7611 have you considered identifying as an attack boat

[@thonk7611]

@@chrisgould101 im disappointed you screwed up an already unfunny meme

[@davidpearlman6631]

Classy of Melissa to point out her opponent short changing his life total in game 1. That's the kind of magic you want to see played!

[@michalipinski1842]

The best Pro Tour! I just bought all the cards for this Bant Red so I can play modern with this deck :D

[@itzmecokie]

I am a new player since KTK, and I hardly believe that this is actually a Standard format! So refreshing watching this, in the time of 2, 3 standard meta deck.

[@micahadams5850]

I'm a huge fan of Melissa DeTora!

[@martini_blue_]

This was such a cool meta...

[@Sleyer07]

Said no one ever

[@martini_blue_]

Sam s Well I liked it. It was more fun than the 85 variations of mono black devotion and mono blue devotion that were the shit when I posted the original.....post.

[@MrKeljor]

Matsuoka Yukio I have to agree with you, since the release of Theros, there hasn't been a standard deck I have been interested to play. Bringing back bant :p

[@chaoskuriboh2395]

MrKeljor jeskai ascendancy most fun ever.

[@chaoskuriboh2395]

I called it so long ago lol

[@RamboSkills]

Thank you for posting the time stamps.

[@Restokiki]

Melissa's deck is so sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet for a Standard deck. Why wasn't I playing back then?...

[@glaedr183]

Melissa has a really good deck, she is very skilled :D A fourth Pro Tour? Nice!

[@bencheshire]

control deck mirror match... Can be tedious. Interesting watching Melissa's Gatecrash deck again.

[@Lightmane]

Well, I'm sure that's what they meant, but that's not what it said on the screen. However, seeing that each format (Standard, Modern & Legacy) all have some cards that are "too powerful", I just have to chuckle whenever Wizards refers to a card as "too powerful". Thanks though, for that clarification : )

[@subtleknife1]

Holy cow this format looks fun. Shame I only started during Eldritch Moon!

[@KM613]

You can say, "They look no better than other good players." Then when you look at the top 8, all of the players in it had success in GP's and PT's prior to the top 8. There's a reason for that. You may not have seen it, but there were several points in the game where they made decisions I wouldn't have seen or made. It's what separates the "good" from these guys when the obvious play isn't the correct play.

[@isaachayes3293]

I didn't know that about Augur of Bolas, must be where Spellseeker comes from

[@LittleLeaf51]

It was a shock land. They are two-color lands that are technically a basic land type of each color; Red-White shock land is described as "Land - Mountain Plain" As well, farseek isn't 'any basic land but Forest', it's 'Mountain, Plain, Island or Swamp'

[@psychosavant]

I think it's generally polite, and it is accepted in most magic communities, that you call every play you make, and voice every card you play. While I don't think it's necessarily considered rude not to, it doesn't hurt to be nice about it.

[@Ruinah]

Won a RTR draft match w/ Fall of the Gavel. Managed to draft WB control/mill. It was fun..

[@santiagoacosta777]

He had written down, and announced "14" (speaking of his life), and she reminded him, that he was at 15, and not 14. I saw the "creating" you're referring to, and there's no way that wasn't a mistake, she gained no advantage at all by dropping that extra land (she had more mana than she needed to pay for everything she had), and, after 13 rounds of play and long games. Mistakes like this are understandable.

[@chedattilo]

Nasst l

[@StrikerFV68]

Lol when the judge asked Gerry what the card in his hand was after he drew the dispel

[@GPEGEMGTM3]

25:56 "I'm here in my Izzet shirt, you're in Rakdos, uh... friends in the color red!" Zac Hill: "yeh...."

[@varasatoshi3961]

Should I focus on countering the things they play off of revelation, instead of revelation, when I have only one counter in my hand?

[@taloutezero]

Vara Satoshi counter the revelation

[@ussfrhni8085]

Melissa's Sideboard: Sideboard: (15) 2x garruk relentless 1x gisela, blade of goldnight 2x Witchbane Orb 3x Rhox Faithmender 1x Detention sphere 1x Supreme verdict 2x Rest in peace 1x Centaur Healer 2x Negate

[@tamijo-]

I don't know. Fetching any 2-drop, from Think Twice to Victim of Night, is pretty bonkers in Standard, too.

[@Nazta666]

For some reason, only the full link works. Sent via PM.

[@niayoko]

anyone recognize what kind of sleeves Gerry Thompson uses? is it ultra-pro matte?

[@MrShanny999]

I got one in a pack, are they worth a lot?

[@Emperorerror]

I like how so much control and and midrange is being played in this format, everyone was saying "urmahgawd only agro is gun be playred hol sessson"

[@Lehman287]

46:53 how did gerry play o-ring with no source of white tapped?

[@avradgaming3225]

Hallowed Fountain ... its white blue

[@Lehman287]

@@avradgaming3225 I was talking about the second one! But it wouldn't have mattered anyways because dispel is U. Wow this happened a long time ago

[@TheChadintheHat1]

What's up with Thompson's mountains? >.< Are those smiley faces?

[@godshor4225]

Did he reveal the think twice from the augur of bolas? i dont think he did.

[@ussfrhni8085]

she's got 61 cards in her deck. Seems to work out just fine :P

[@SSJKarma]

what i find funny is that people call her a cheater needing to be killed for it, but the reality is... mostly all players, once in their life have gained a small advantage due to a mistake. i for once won an FNM by forgetting my 4 kikijiki back then... i was playing with 6 cards out of my deck and won that tournament, its only after everything when i got back my cards that i noticed that i was playing with the 6 out of the deck. an error they couldn'T go back on as the tournament was over with.

[@9288Savior]

Hey Rashad Miller, just one correction, she was 11-1 after round 12, not 12-1 Lol jus sayin

[@LordHamtaro]

what sleeves is gerry thompson using?

[@FuelTR]

the link doesnt work, could you check it?

[@Superstrength79]

Looks like they fixed the audio... I always crank my sound to the max to listen to WoTC videos. Had to scramble for the volume controls lol

[@Kratoz74]

Probably Red Dragon Shield sleeves, mine look exact same.

[@TelesDiogo]

Thanks man!!

[@FuelTR]

she played the extra lands for Kessig Wolf Run, she was close to lethal damage.

[@YeNguyen]

I'm pretty sure we're on the same wavelength.

[@origin15minutesofame]

Why in the world not?

[@ElMoss64]

Round 1 0:52 Round 2 30:18 Round 3 41:10

[@gileschenery3645]

Ik I'm late but is this real life?

[@Turn2Ugin]

Ik I'm late, but no sadly 😔

[@TheHighlander1]

gonna show this to my girlfriend.. give her some inspiration

[@jaco2092]

They should be reving on opponents upkeep?

[@kevinfellson4813]

@IStacktheBacon : is that a picture of Venus????

[@lelloo8440]

the grace in the way she shuffles her deck is blinding

[@ussfrhni8085]

Melissa's deck: Creatures: (14) 4x Restoration angel 3x Augur of Bolas 4x Thragtusk 3x Centaur Healer Spells: (21) 4x Sphinx's revelation 4x Azorius Charm 4x Farseek 2x Think Twice 1x Detention Sphere 3x Supreme verdict 2x Dissipate 1x Syncopate Lands: (26) 1x Sacred Foundry 1x Steam vents 1x Stomping ground 2x Kessig wolfrun 4x Hallowed Fountain 4x Breeding Pool 4x Temple Garden 4x Hinterland Harbor 3x Glacial Fortress 2x Sunpetal grove

[@calapiet186]

Am I dreaming A female human person on the Pro Tour??? Amazing !

[@maxmuftic]

And hopefully next a president

[@earthgasher3074]

Who cares about the gender of the players? Why does it matter?

[@PartisanGamer]

Wouldnt matter if it werent still very hard for female players to be accepted. Its way harder for females to get into games like Magic the Gathering, often facing open sexism and being discouraged to dive deeper. Its changing but only very slowly. Try walking into a store thats all male besides you. 100% feels weird and isnt easy to do for many. So its nice to see it becoming more nromal.

[@paulhopkins8391]

I am sorry, PartisanGamer, this has not been my experiance at all. My local store has a 50/50 attendance between female and male gamers and I would even go so far to say that this remains the same throughout my area. The real question as to why more women are not in the pro tour is that simply they are not on camera unlike the some of the more famous pro's and perhaps not as strong of a player.

[@marcodambrosio4711]

I really don't think there's patriarchal hegemonic conspiracy against women in MTG. At LSG I played here there where a dominance of male player, that's true, but I can assure you that when every now and then a female approached, not all the players where eager to rape her.

[@sashrill]

did he just say there is no gias blessing type card? did he forget about elixir of immortality?

[@Diotialate]

I had to Twiddle someone's Bone Flute once. True story.

[@Lornext]

I myself like to use Assemble the Legion in UWR, at least on the sideboard. It simply ends long games like these.

[@RoxyGotMoxy.]

Lornext totally unnecessary but hilariously broken with Cathars' Crusade too 😂

[@Travis7060312]

what a great game

[@Slixer]

So free in fact that you need to buy the boosters and it's not a guarantee your going to get the tokens you want. But hey if you wanna spend even more on packs to get a couple of tokens you do that.

[@RoyaLockz]

They use sponsor tokens?

[@tronist]

decklists please!

[@Ifukedurdad]

I don't know if you're trolling but anyway... You'd be surprised, it's tiny decisions they make that separates pro players from non-pro players.

[@truejoeywheeler1]

People really need to chill out Melissa is a fantastic player

[@michaeltreas465]

I enjoy playing with people like that.

[@csswessel]

Let's be honest they're both beautiful.

[@MrGarruk123]

ty bro

[@ievgeni.fesenko5636]

Lovely game! 🇺🇦🇪🇺

[@Calibrex_Gaming]

Melissa came prepared for the control/tempo decks. It is a math game and a lot of bluffing. There is one point where Gerry was holding only 3 lands....what a bluff! One major mistake from her could have cost her the whole match.

[@עמריטפלא]

In the second round, did Melisa forfeit?

[@Skeed402]

with no board presence that Jace ability to mill 10 cards from target player's library is overwhelming. In those kind of matches where the game goes on and on... milling 10, 20 cards is just game over with an imminent empty library situation.

[@עמריטפלא]

Tulio Is that a yes?

[@Skeed402]

She did conceed the game in order to have enough time to win G3.

[@עמריטפלא]

Tulio Is there a time limit? On what? Sideboarding?

[@Skeed402]

Yes. 50 minutes. If the time expires the players are granted with 5 additional turns where they must finish the game otherwise it's called a draw or whoever was leading before takes the Win. e.g. if time expires, after the 5 ad. turns was 1-0 to player A, it's A the wins the match. If it was previously tied 1-1, it's a draw.

[@TheRaygambit]

what deck is melissa playing?

[@chrisgould101]

Scapeshift

[@ChadMaltoMusic]

How'd she cheat? I know she tried to Orzhov charm an artifact, But I heard it was a simple mistake.

[@Ijustcomment010]

well played...

[@TheHighlander1]

ya. keeps from clumping on augur pulls.. you don't want to get nabbed on some silly draw mistake. "could mention a few pro's"

[@Lightmane]

I wanted to thumbs up your comment, but 50 thumbs up looks so perfect, or should we go for 100? ; )

[@mitchtouesnard5520]

This was peak mtg

[@pKmNmNfOrLiFe]

She is an amazing player and also happens to be a judge so she may deserve one however ill never join it

[@EulogyfortheAngels]

It would have been too powerful in formats other than Standard, is what they meant.

[@LifeIsPunkRock]

What is with wizards and their audio? First it was too quiet and now the audio isn't even synced. C'mon wizards. You're better than that.

[@iStacktheBacon]

Those are foreign language mountains. The character for mountain looks like a puppy to me. :P

[@slobro850]

19:58 Big smoke enters the frame

[@iStacktheBacon]

I'm glad it isn't just me. This gets reeeeally bad too...

[@modernminded5466]

I think you could trade that for 3 normal's

[@jamesbhp]

I don't believe I see a hologram, so we can rule out Ultra Pro. My bet would be on KMC Matte Red.

[@markbriggs8633]

Sounds like they're saying Standard is cumbersome.

[@coolair00]

I played this bck in the day with beta's, mox's and time walk....power blue and the first round channel fireball... I won so many cards....now there are girls playing the game and its on youtube...we geeks have come far.

[@DanielB32]

I've heard the accusations and have seen no solid proof.

[@doomtomb3]

That was really crappy for Gerry. Just missed too many land drops in Game 3.

[@ajay72502]

If you guys know what i mean one guy sounded like CaptinSparkelz

[@SlaphappyMongoose]

agreed.

[@YeNguyen]

Nah, that'd be Brian Kibler.

[@Zeldarulah]

I agree, but keep in mind that in other videos you can see her playing multiple lands in a turn. So, you know, some good some bad.

[@Harlequin314159]

That gradual audio de-sync...

[@huefish9099]

oh good it wasnt just me.

[@santiagoacosta777]

Funny how the "cheater" reminds his opponent that he's at 15 life and not at 14.

[@Zyrkseas]

They don't bother because they play pros, they all know its just a 3/3 so why bother.

[@DGice2]

gerry was on the harvest pyre plan the whole time, not the decking plan like the coverage team suggest

[@justjarjar1]

cool you have a face

[@TheLuminousCleric]

Sleight of Hand

[@TheCrocSays]

dude, shes not going to sleep with you.

[@Lightmane]

38:40 Augur of Bolas "originally" tutored for "any" 2-cost instant or sorcery... but was... "too powerful". Too Powerful? Oh, so is wizards saying that Thragtusk, Sphinx, Boros Reckoner, Angel of Serenity, Supreme Verdict, Angel of Restoration, Bonfire, Wolfir Silverheart, Silverblade Paladin, Rancor, Deathrite Shaman, PLANESWALKERS, Thundermaw, Hellrider, Olivia, Titans, Geralf & tons of others cards AREN'T TOO POWERFUL??? WHAT?????

[@ianhusseyanimation]

Yknow, seven years later with a slew of standard bans, yeah I'd say not too powerful

[@Lightmane]

Wizards apparently loves making cards too powerful. It seems to be working. All those bans and still people spend money on new cards. Go figure.

[@ianhusseyanimation]

You got it my man

[@Nazta666]

Watch this: twitch.tv/magicprotour/b/367607282?t=9h16m40s Compare the mana tapped with the +X from KWR. ;P Oh and it just so happens she then have just enough for a thragtusk!