Pro Tour Edge of Eternities

Pro Tour Edge of Eternities
Date	September 26-28, 2025
Location	Atlanta, USA
Attendance	300
Format	Booster Draft and Modern
Prize pool	$500,000
Winner	Michael DeBenedetto-Plummer
Previous Pro Tour: Pro Tour Final Fantasy Next Pro Tour: Pro Tour Lorwyn Eclipsed

Pro Tour Edge of Eternities was the third Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour of the 2024–25 season. It took place on September 26-28, 2025, at Atlanta MagicCon, USA. The format is Modern.

State of the format

With the shift to more Standard-legal Universes Beyond products in the calendar year, this would be the first Modern Pro Tour since the beginning of direct-to-Modern products (first seen in Mythic Championship IV Barcelona) without such an associated release.

The last major shift was the banning of Underworld Breach, which forced the eight-Mox core into different builds, which resembled more classic Affinity, with a 6.7% representation. The premier aggressive Boros Energy deck at 13.7%, powered largely by Modern Horizons cards, did not gain much from the recent releases, but Edge of Eternities still had a reasonable impact by introducing Quantum Riddler, a powerful and resilient blink target for Goryo's Vengeance and Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd decks. These two together put Esper at 22.4% and the top archetype for the field. Landless blue Goblin Charbelcher at 15% was the major linear combo deck, and Eldrazi decks with (7.3%) and without (4%) the Urzatron engine were the major ramp decks. The aggregate of "others" outnumbered any individual deck at 17.7%.

Day One

Featured drafters: Ken Yukuhiro

As the immediately previous Standard product was Marvel's Spider-Man, a product not designed for eight-person draft, the draft format remained Edge of Eternities. The eight-week gap made it one of the oldest draft formats for a Pro Tour event, second to the usage of the four-month-old Dominaria at the 2018 World Championship.

Yukuhiro found a good lane with , gaining a lot in the third pack, but only could pick up a win in round 3, with Luis Salvatto winning the pod. The combo decks suppressed the fairer decks of Boros Energy and Izzet Affinity, which in turn were preyed upon by various under-the-radar control decks. Shuhei Nakamura topped the day with a Weapons Manufacturing Affinity list, followed by a varied spread of decks and players at 7-1.

An amusing anecdote at the lower tables came from Seth Manfield and opponent Benjamin Graves; paired together at 3-1-2, they intentionally drew, letting both guarantee entry to Day 2 as well as returning to the 4-3 bracket.

The top eight players after day one:

Rank	Player	Points
1	Shuhei Nakamura	24
2	Michael DeBenedetto-Plummer	21
3	Hyuma Nishi	21
4	Jonny Guttman	21
5	Albert Cordobes	21
6	Mason Buonadonna	21
7	Stefan Schütz	21
8	Jason Ye	19

Day Two

Featured drafters: Shuhei Nakamura

Nakamura's 1-2 result followed the unfortunate trend of featured drafters struggling in the Limited portion; he would ultimately lose three win-and-in matches for 15th. Undefeated Limited players were Guttman, Daniel Goetschel and Justin Schabel, the latter of whom would be the first player in in Round 14, defeating Nakamura, as would DeBenedetto-Plummer in Round 15 and Makoto Horiuchi in Round 16. Also in Round 15, Buonadonna defeated Cordobes and Mikko Airaksinen defeated Jonny Guttman; Guttman himself would win his last round against Sergio Garcia. The final two spots were taken by Noé Offman over Cordobes and Francisco Sánchez over Zevin Faust. Dylan Nollen and Alex Friedrichsen also reached 12 wins at 9th and 10th.

Top 8

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
	1	Justin Schabel	2
	8	Makoto Horiuchi	3
						8	Makoto Horiuchi	2
						5	Francisco Sánchez	3
	4	Mason Buonadonna	2
	5	Francisco Sánchez	3
											5	Francisco Sánchez	0
											2	Michael Debenedetto-Plummer	3
	3	Mikko Airaksinen	3
	6	Jonny Guttman	2
						3	Mikko Airaksinen	2
						2	Michael Debenedetto-Plummer	3
	2	Michael Debenedetto-Plummer	3
	7	Noé Offman	2

Playoffs

With a series of players new to the Sunday stage, it would be one of the shortest collective resumes of any Pro Tour since Mythic Championship IV Barcelona (three prior final days for both).

The story of the tournament was of the two decades-old archetypes returning to Modern: Goblin Charbelcher thanks to MDFC lands and the reprinted-into-Modern Orim's Chant on an Isochron Scepter. Furthermore, the top 8 was largely powered by key cards in older sets, such as Goryo's Vengeance, Amulet of Vigor and Griselbrand combos pushing out the Horizons-heavy Boros Energy.

The standout play of the final match was DeBenedetto-Plummer casting Suppression Ray to tap a lone Kaheera, the Orphanguard for a one-point attack on Narset, Parter of Veils, opening up a Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar ultimate, overwhelming Sánchez with sixteen cards.

Results

Place	Player	Deck	Prize	Points	Comment
1	Michael DeBenedetto-Plummer	Tameshi Belcher	$50,000	27
2	Francisco Sánchez	Azorius Scepter-Chant	$30,000	23	Second Top Finish
3	Mikko Airaksinen	Tameshi Belcher	$15,000	20	Second Top Finish
4	Makoto Horiuchi	Esper Blink	$15,000	20	Pro Tour Debut
5	Justin Schabel	Izzet Prowess	$9,000	18
6	Mason Buonadonna	Amulet Titan	$9,000	18
7	Jonny Guttman	Esper Goryo's	$9,000	18	Second Top Finish
8	Noé Offman	Simic Neoform	$9,000	18

Player of the Year

Pro Tour Final Fantasy champion Yukuhiro and twin Sunday players Yuchen Liu and Ian Robb led the field by around nine points coming into this event. While none of them placed highly, neither did many of their rivals, with only Toni Portolon gaining a distinct place of 4th with 37 between the Top 3 above 40 and the 5th-8th scrum around 30. With 27 points at stake for the World Champion, nearly twenty players have a shot for Player of the Year at Worlds.