Pro Tour Final Fantasy
| Pro Tour Final Fantasy | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | June 20-22, 2025 | |||
| Location |
 Las Vegas, USA | |||
| Attendance | 331 | |||
| Format | Standard and Booster draft | |||
| Prize pool | $500,000 | |||
| Winner |
 Ken Yukuhiro | |||
| ||||
Pro Tour Final Fantasy, styled as Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY, is the second Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour of the 2024–25 season. It takes place on June 20-22, 2025, at Las Vegas MagicCon, USA.[1] The format is Final Fantasy Booster Draft and Standard Constructed.[2][3]
State of the format
The dominance of Cori-Steel Cutter was the story of Tarkir: Dragonstorm, having eclipsed the Gruul Mice deck as the red deck of the format. Final Fantasy did little to change that, and in fact added a piece of powerful "top" end of Vivi Ornitier. As such, Izzet Prowess made up 43% of the field, with Abuelo's Awakening on Omniscience coming in second at less than half representation at 20%. Another Monstrous Rage deck, mono-Red Aggro, came in third with 11%, putting the red aggro decks at around 56% all told, one of the highest levels of homogeneity in Standard in the new Pro Tour era. The first green deck and Pro Tour Aetherdrift dominant, Domain Overlords, sat at a paltry 4.2%, followed up by other nonred decks of Dimir Midrange, Insidious Roots decks, Azorius Control and Orzhov Pixie.[4]
Day One
Featured drafters: Matt Nass
As tradition, the draft followed the reigning Champion, this time Matt Nass. His attempt to draft a multicolored Town deck gave way to a mediocre Red-Green deck without much payload. Nathan Basser, Nass's first opponent, took the pod with a removal-heavy Black-Green deck. As the first Pro Tour in Vegas for quite some time, many old-guard players made reappearances after a long absence, such as Bob Maher (last seen at Mythic Championship VI Richmond), Patrick Chapin (last seen at Players Tour Series 2), Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa (last seen Pro Tour Phyrexia) and David Rood (last seen at Players Tour Finals).
At the conclusion of Day 1, Christian Baker's mostly creatureless Prowess build using Astrologian's Planisphere took the top spot. Ten players followed up at 7-1, amongst whom were Ken Yukuhiro, Eli Kassis, Jody Keith and Ian Robb from the top 8 of Pro Tour Aetherdrift, each playing a different deck.[5]
The top eight players after day one:
| Rank | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christian Baker
|
24 |
| 2 |  Allan Fong
|
21 |
| 3 | Ian Robb
|
21 |
| 4 | Ken Yukuhiro
|
21 |
| 5 | Jody Keith
|
21 |
| 6 |  Toni Portolan
|
21 |
| 7 | Connor Mackenzie
|
21 |
| 8 |  Yann Alexandre Couinar
|
21 |
Day Two
Featured drafters: Christian Baker
Baker fell into the same mediocre Red-Green deck that Nass did and performed the same, giving way to Ian Robb, who made 6-0 in draft alongside Edgar Magalhaes and Ha Pham. Robb picked up two more wins in Standard and landed a consecutive Top 8 in his first Pro Tour season, joined by Yukuhiro in his eighth Top Finish. In Round 15, Rood defeated Baker for a Top 8 after decades off the train, joined by Percy Fang over Portolon and Yuchen Liu over Magalhaes. Baker would finally get their spot on the final day over Theodore Jung, joined by Portolon over William Araujo and Andy Garcia-Romo over Arch Dota, resulting in an entire Top 8 of red Aggro decks. Three nonaggro decks missed at 12-4: Magalhaes on Domain, Sean Henry on Omniscience and Mitchell Tamblyn on Azorius Control.[6][7][8]
Liu and Robb would be the first pair of consecutive Top 8s since Jon Finkel and Denniz Rachid in the 2012 Pro Tour season.
Top 8
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||
| 1 | Ken Yukuhiro | 3 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Andy Garcia-Romo | 1 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Ken Yukuhiro | 3 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Yuchen Liu | 2 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Percy Fang | 2 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Yuchen Liu | 3 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Ken Yukuhiro | 3 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Ian Robb | 0 | |||||||||||
| 3 | David Rood | 1 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Toni Portolon | 3 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Toni Portolon | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Ian Robb | 3 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Ian Robb | 3 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Christian Baker | 0 | |||||||||||
Playoffs
The even deck split of Red and Izzet had another generally unseen curiosity: the bracket was exactly divided in that one half of the bracket was all Red and the other was all Izzet, resulting in three mirrors on both sides before a "deck champion" was chosen for the finale. The highest seeds faced off in the final, with Yukuhiro cleaning up after a brisk thirty-minute match.[9]
Results
| Place | Player | Deck | Prize | Points | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ken Yukuhiro
|
Mono-Red Aggro | $50,000 | 27 | Eighth Top Finish |
| 2 | Ian Robb
|
Izzet Prowess | $30,000 | 23 | Second Top Finish in a row |
| 3 | Toni Portolon
|
Izzet Prowess | $15,000 | 20 | |
| 4 |  Yuchen Liu
|
Mono-Red Aggro | $15,000 | 20 | Third Top Finish, second in a row |
| 5 | Percy Fang
|
Mono-Red Aggro | $9,000 | 20 | |
| 6 | David Rood
|
Izzet Prowess | $9,000 | 20 | Third Top Finish |
| 7 | Christian Baker
|
Izzet Prowess | $9,000 | 18 | |
| 8 | Andy Garcia-Romo
|
Mono-Red Aggro | $9,000 | 18 |
References
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (October 15, 2024). "The 2025 MagicCon and Pro Tour Schedule". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (March 14, 2025). "MagicCon: Las Vegas 2025 – The Storm Is Gathering". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Rich Hagon (June 9, 2025). "Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™ Viewer's Guide". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Frank Karsten (June 19, 2025). "Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™ Standard Metagame Breakdown". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Corbin Hosler (June 21, 2025). "Day One Highlights at Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Corbin Hosler (June 22, 2025). "Day Two Highlights at Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Corbin Hosler (June 22, 2025). "Top 8 Players and Decks of Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Corbin Hosler (June 23, 2025). "The Top 8 of Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Corbin Hosler (June 23, 2025). "The Finals of Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™". Magic.gg.