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Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011

Sep 2, 2011 · Modern, Booster Draft · Philadelphia, Philadelphia, US

Top 8

Place	Player	Deck	Archetype
#1	Samuele Estratti	Splinter Twin	Splinter Twin
#2	Josh Utter-Leyton	Counter-Cat	Counter-Cat
#3	Sam Black	Mono-Blue Infect	Mono-Blue Infect
#4	Chikara Nakajima	Mono-Red Affinity	Mono-Red Affinity
#5	Max Sjöblom	Pyromancer Ascension	Pyromancer Ascension
#6	Jesse Hampton	BreachPost	BreachPost
Maindeck 60 cards Creature (21) 1×Dryad Arbor 4×Emrakul, the Aeons Torn 1×Oracle of Mul Daya 4×Overgrown Battlement 4×Primeval Titan 1×Sakura-Tribe Elder 1×Terastodon 1×Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre 4×Wall of Roots Instant (7) 3×Beast Within 4×Through the Breach Sorcery (4) 4×Green Sun's Zenith Artifact (4) 4×Gruul Signet Land (24) 4×Cloudpost 1×Eye of Ugin 3×Forest 4×Glimmerpost 4×Grove of the Burnwillows 2×Misty Rainforest Sideboard 15 cards Creature (2) 1×Brooding Saurian 1×Qasali Pridemage Instant (5) 2×Dismember
#7	Andrejs Prost	Pyromancer Ascension	Pyromancer Ascension
#8	Alessandro Portaro	Splinter Twin	Splinter Twin

Video coverage

Official quarterfinal round broadcast.

Credit: Magic: The Gathering

Stories from the event

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Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011 Finals

Official written coverage of Samuele Estratti's championship match.

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Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011 Official Coverage

Archived official event hub and live coverage.

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Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011 Semifinals — Black vs. Utter-Leyton

Official written coverage from the semifinal round.

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Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011 Top 8 Decklists

Official Modern decklists from the tournament's Top 8.

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Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011 Top 8 Profiles

Official profiles of the tournament's Top 8 competitors.

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Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011 Top Modern Decks

Official high-performing decklists from the Modern field.

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Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011 in Five Cards

Official look at the cards that defined the first Modern Pro Tour.

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Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011 — Answering the Modern Format

Frank Karsten's official analysis of the inaugural Pro Tour Modern metagame.

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Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011 — The Dawn of Modern

Official opening-day breakdown of the new Modern format.

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Pro Tour Philadelphia 2011 — The Rise of the Super-Team

Official feature on Team ChannelFireball's preparation and performance.