GRAND PRIX SEATTLE-TACOMA 2015

Jarvis Yu finally breaks through, making the most of his first Grand Prix Top 8 by claiming the Grand Prix Seattle-Tacoma 2015 title!

GRAND PRIX SEATTLE-TACOMA 2015

TOP 8 COVERAGE

Jarvis Yu has been a longtime player and writer, but despite his best efforts, a premier event Top 8 had always eluded him.

That is, until now.

Yu finally made it into his very first Grand Prix Top 8, with his Lands deck serving him strongly as a great metagame call against a Legacy Constructed format that featured numerous decks aiming to ultimately win with creatures. His deck's strength, particularly against Delver of Secrets, was given the grandest of stages in the finals against Christian Calcano, where Yu's Lands deck firmly locked Calcano from any means of coming back. Once Calcano was left without a land in sight thanks to recurring Wastelands, Thespian's Stage and Dark Depths presented a lethal Marit Lage token, winning Yu the tournament in legendary fashion.

Legacy this weekend showcased the familiar faces of the format, with the lands being among the most powerful cards you can play. Yu simply chose to play almost all of them, earning his very first title after many years of trying. Congratulations to him, and we'll see Jarvis Yu at Pro Tour Oath of the Gatewatch in February 2016.

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Finals: Christian Calcano (Grixis Delver) vs. Jarvis Yu (Lands) by Mike Rosenberg

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Top 8 Decklists

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Top 32 Decklists

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Semifinals: Christian Calcano (Grixis Delver ) vs. Chase Hansen (Reanimator)

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Top 8 Player Profiles

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Trial-Winning Decklists

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FACT SHEET

by Wizards of the Coast

TOP 8 DECKLISTS

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Jarvis Yu's Lands

GRAND PRIX SEATTLE-TACOMA 2015

Decklist Stats Sample Hand

Sorcery (8)

4 Life from the Loam 4 Gamble

Instant (8)

4 Crop Rotation 4 Punishing Fire

Artifact (4)

4 Mox Diamond

Enchantment (5)

4 Exploration 1 Manabond

Land (35)

2 Tranquil Thicket 4 Thespian's Stage 4 Rishadan Port 4 Wasteland 1 Riftstone Portal 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale 1 Windswept Heath 2 Verdant Catacombs 1 Wooded Foothills 1 Forest 2 Taiga 4 Grove of the Burnwillows 4 Dark Depths 3 Maze of Ith 1 Glacial Chasm

60 Cards

Sideboard (15)

1 Karakas 1 Bojuka Bog 4 Krosan Grip 1 Molten Vortex 4 Sphere of Resistance 2 Choke 2 Chalice of the Void

Deal Another Hand

Christian Calcano's Grixis Delver