Magic Online World Championship Qualifier Winner
Posted in Arcana
on October 23, 2008

The 2008 World Championship qualifier on Magic Online is complete, and congratulations go out to Toshinori Shigehara of Japan, who (as "SGGK") fought through the top 8 like this:
top 8 bracket
And here's the winning deck:
SGGK
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If the name "Toshinori Shigehara" sounds familiar to you, that might be because he also won the Worlds Qualifier on Magic Online back in 2004! Here's the deck he won with four years ago:
“tori3” - Toshinori Shigehara, Japan
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For the rest of this year's Top 8 Decks, check out today's Decks of the Week. And Brian David-Marshall will have an interview with the two-time winner in The Week That Was in a couple of weeks.
Posted in Arcana
on October 23, 2008
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