Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour season 2007

Grand Prixs – Dallas, Singapore, Amsterdam, Kyoto, Massachusetts

• Format: Extended
• Attendance: 748

1. Raphaël Lévy
2. Paul Cheon
3. Kenji Tsumura
4. John Pelcak
5. Mark Herberholz
6. Paul Nguyen
7. Alex Ledbetter
8. Jim Davis

• Format: Extended
• Attendance: 331

1. Raphaël Lévy
2. Shingou Kurihara
3. Antoine Ruel
4. Osamu Fujita
5. Olivier Ruel
6. Koutarou Ootsuka
7. Ryou Ogura
8. Tomoharu Saitou

• Format: Two-headed Giant Limited
• Attendance: 1336

1. Richard Hornansky
   Michael Havlik
2. Amiel Tenenbaum
   Gabriel Nassif
3. Olaf Koster
   Christian Kok
4. Vassilis Fatouros
   Georgios Kapalos

• Format: Standard
• Attendance: 859

1. Yuuya Watanabe
2. Yuusuke Iwasaki
3. Motokiyo Azuma
4. Tsubasa Tomii
5. Naoki Shimizu
6. Ren Ishikawa
7. Atsushi Wada
8. Katsuhiro Ide

• Format: Two-Headed Giant Limited
• Attendance: 690

1. Matt Wang
   Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz
2. Gerard Fabiano
   Eric Ziegler
3. Ben Lundquist
   Timothy Aten
4. Matt Rubin
   Rob DiPalma

Pro Tour – Yokohama (20–22 April 2007)

Tournament data

Final standings

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Grands Prix – Stockholm, Columbus, Strasbourg, Montreal ;GP Stockholm Format: Limited Attendance: 713 Nicolay Potovin André Müller Kenji Tsumura Oliver Oks Bas Postema Thomas Refsdal Klaus Jöns Samuel Korsell ;GP Columbus Format: Legacy Attendance: 883 Steve Sadin Owen Turtenwald Bill Stark Max Tietze Gadiel Szleifer Paul Nicolo Ryan Trepanier Michael Belfatto ;GP Strasbourg Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 1155 Tomoharu Saitou Raul Porojan Shouta Yasooka Florian Pils Christoph Huber Klaus Jöns Petr Martinek Stefan Heigerer ;GP Montreal Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 739 Celso Zampere Jr. Paul Cheon Guillaume Wafo-Tapa Kenji Tsumura Gabriel Schwarz Koutarou Ootsuka Jason Imperiale Shouta Yasooka Pro Tour – San Diego (29 June – 1 July 2007) Pro Tour San Diego was the inaugural and as yet only event for the Two-Headed Giant format at the Pro Tour level. Chris Lachmann and Jacob van Lunen won the tournament, both in their first Pro Tour, playing an innovative sliver strategy. They won the elimination bracket in a combined nine turns making it the shortest semi-final and final ever. Tournament data Prize pool: $240,500 Players: 390 Format: Two-Headed Giant Booster Draft Head Judge: Toby Elliott Final standings Place Players Prize Pro Points Comment 1 Grand Prixs – San Francisco, Florence ;GP San Francisco Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 672 Luis Scott-Vargas Jonathan Stocks Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa Brett Blackmann David Irvine Andrew Walden Zack Smith Paul Cheon ;GP Florence Format: Block Constructed Attendance: 1082 Masami Kaneko André Coimbra Marco Cammilluzzi Mido Kagawa Armin Birner Manuel Bucher Rasmus Sibast Ronald Guetl Pro Tour – Valencia (12–14 October 2007) Pro Tour Valencia began with a bumpy start. The first day of play to be canceled due to flooding. On the other two days the schedule had to be altered somewhat, including additional rounds on Saturday and three rounds on Sunday before Top 8. In the end, Frenchman Remi Fortier defeated Germany's André Müller in the final, making Valencia the third consecutive extended Pro Tour to be won by a French player. Tournament data Prize pool: $240,245 Players: 424 Format: Extended Head Judge: Jaap Brouwer Final standings Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment 1 Grand Prixs – Brisbane, Bangkok, Krakow, Kitakyuushuu, Daytona Beach ;GP Brisbane Format: Limited Attendance: 233 Anatoli Lightfoot Shawn Rayson André Coimbra Hassan Kamel David Zhao Norman McPherson Andrew Eckermann Chris Ninnes ;GP Bangkok Format: Limited Attendance: 314 Masahiko Morita Shingou Kurihara Yong Han Choo Kok Seng Ong Junya Iyanaga Koutarou Ootsuka Steven Tan Takuya Oosawa ;GP Kraków Format: Standard Attendance: 849 Paul Cheon Amiel Tenenbaum Armin Birner Olivier Ruel Robert Jacko David Besso Guillaume Wafo-Tapa Matej Zatlkaj ;GP Kitakyuushuu Format: Limited Attendance: 354 Junya Iyanaga Shouta Yasooka Akira Asahara Olivier Ruel Kazuya Hirabayashi Jun Young Park Kenji Tsumura Chih-Chun Tsai ;GP Daytona Beach Format: Limited Attendance: 636 Seth Manfield Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa Tillman Bragg Tanon Grace Gabe Walls Steven Wolansky Kyle Miller Alex Lieberman 2007 World Championships – New York City (6–9 December 2007) The World Championships began with the induction of the third class into the hall of fame. The inductees were Kai Budde, Zvi Mowshowitz, Tsuyoshi Fujita, Nicolai Herzog, and Randy Buehler. In the individual competition Uri Peleg became the first Israeli, not only to reach the top eight, but also to win a Pro Tour. For Mori it was his third consecutive Worlds Top 8 appearance. In the team competition, the Swiss defeated the Austrian team in the finals Tournament data Prize pool: $215,600 + $192,200 Players: 386 Formats: Standard, Booster Draft , Legacy Head Judge: Mike Guptil Final standings Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment 1 National team competition Switzerland Austria Pro Player of the year final standings After the World Championship Tomoharu Saitou was awarded the Pro Player of the year title. Rank Player Pro Points 1 Performance by country Japan players dominated the season, making 16 Top 8 appearances although they had only about half as many players on the Pro Tour as the United States, which had the secondmost Top 8 appearances at 9. Both countries generated 21 level 4+ pro players in this season. For the Netherlands despite having generated 7 level 4+ pro players in the season success on the Pro Tour was almost elusive with a single 8th place being their only Top 8 appearance. Country T8 Q* Q/T8 GT Best Player #expr: 36+65+38+32#expr: 171/16 round 0