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Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour season 2012–13

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Pro Player of the Year
  
Josh Utter-Leyton

World Champion
  
Yuuya Watanabe

Grands Prix
  
44

Rookie of the Year
  
Felipe Tapia Becerra

Pro Tours
  
3

Hall of Fame inductions
  
Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa Kenji Tsumura Masashi Oiso Patrick Chapin

The 2012–13 Pro Tour season was the eighteenth season of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour. It started on 19 May 2012 with Grand Prix Malmö, and ended on 19 May 2013 with the conclusion of Pro Tour Dragon's Maze in San Diego. The season consisted of 44 Grand Prix and three Pro Tours, which were held in Seattle, Montreal and San Diego. At the end of the season Josh Utter-Leyton was proclaimed Pro Player of the Year.

Contents

World Magic Cup

Indianapolis (16–19 August 2012)
  • Prize pool: $136,000
  • Format: Standard, Booster Draft, Team Constructed, Team Limited
  • Attendance: 283 players representing 71 countries/regions
  • Grand Prix: Boston

    GP Boston (25–26 August 2012)
  • Format: Limited
  • Attendance: 1845
    1. Brian Demars
    2. Robert Victory
    3. Cedric Phillips
    4. Alex Lloyd
    5. Kevin Michael
    6. Jason Ford
    7. Thomas Holzinger
    8. Shouta Yasooka

    2012 Magic Players Championship

    Seattle (29–31 August 2012)
  • Prize pool: $108,000
  • Format: Modern, Cube Draft, Booster Draft
  • Attendance: 16
  • Final standings

    The following sixteen players received an invitation to the 2012 Players Championship due to their performance in the 2012 season. They are ordered according to the final standings of the event.

    Pro Tour Return to Ravnica

    Seattle (19–21 October 2012)
  • Prize pool: $233,500
  • Format: Modern, Booster Draft
  • Attendance: 383
  • Pro Tour Return to Ravnica was the first major Modern event with Return to Ravnica in the format. It was also the first major tournament in which Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle was legal in Modern after being unbanned in the Modern format shortly before.

    Pro Tour Gatecrash

    Montreal (15–17 February 2013)
  • Prize pool: $250,000
  • Format: Standard, Booster Draft
  • Attendance: 329
  • Pro Tour Dragon's Maze

    San Diego (17–19 May 2013)
  • Prize pool: $250,000
  • Format: Block Constructed, Booster Draft
  • Attendance: 388
  • Invitees to the 2013 World Championship

    The following sixteen players received an invitation to the 2013 World Championship due to their performance in the 2012–13 season.

    Pro Player of the Year final standings

    After Pro Tour Dragon's Maze Josh Utter-Leyton was awarded the Pro Player of the year title.

    References

    Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour season 2012–13 Wikipedia