Pro Tour Guilds of Ravnica
| Pro Tour Guilds of Ravnica | ||||
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| Date | November 9–11 | |||
| Location | Template:Flagicon Atlanta, Georgia, United States | |||
| Format | Standard and Booster draft | |||
| Prize pool | $250,000 | |||
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Pro Tour Guilds of Ravnica is the first Pro Tour of the 2018–19 season. It will take place on November 9–11 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is the last Pro Tour to be tied to a specific set release.
2017-18 Player of the Year Playoff
Before Day 1 of the main event, a best of seven games playoff is held between Seth Manfield and Luis Salvatto, to decide the 2017-18 season's Player of the Year title: Both players tied 81 points in last season.
The format is modified format based on Standard. Both players has to build 4 Standard decks without sideboard, which their four decks must not include more than eight copies of any given card (other than basic land). Before each game starts, both players choose one of the available decks to play against each other. They can take a free mulligan in each game. Whenever a player wins a game, the deck that the winning player using would be unavailable in the rest of the match. The player who win with all four decks wins the playoff.
| Player | Matchups | ||||||
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| Template:Flagicon Seth Manfield | Mono-Blue Tempo | Mono-Red Aggro | Boros Weenie | Izzet Drakes | Boros Weenie | ||
| Template:Flagicon Luis Salvatto | Mono-Blue Tempo | Mono-Blue Tempo | Jeskai Control | Mono-Red Aggro | White Weenie | White Weenie |
Notably, all the decks chosen were part of the Jeskai color trio; despite the strength of the Golgari deck, the unsideboarded games meant the midrange decks are unfavorable as the individual card power does not overcome the higher average percentage of dead cards in the main deck.