Stanislav made what every magic player wants to do: Go to a Pro Tour with a innovating deck that you invented and nobody is playing and win the tournament. with that deck.

I don't understand the Cifka hate. He is a very prepared player and made an almost perfect read of the Modern metagame. He came from almost nowhere with his deck and lost only one match in the entire weekend. He basically steamrolled through Jund, Robots, other combos, anything. This is a brilliant deck. This is top level Magic. He deserved that win.

Hey, that's me! :D

I used to hate watching this mostly because of the sighing, and the very tedious frustration of it all. But I came to appreciate it for little things, like Cifka AND Wantanabe giggling at the end of the round, because even Cifka recognizes the complete absurdity of this situation.

Though I would dread to play with or against it, I have to say that Cifka's _Second Breakfast_ is quite an impressive deck, from both a mechanical and creative perspective. It's a well-oiled death machine that repeatedly takes its time to grind you down in a very consistent-but-inefficient way!

such eggs. very grapeshot. wow.

Yuuyu's a great guy... With the loss of a protour imminent, he still helps his opponent by counting storm and mana for him

breathing intensifies

Wow. I'm so impressed on how good of a sport he was, he let Watanabe respond to every trigger in a very friendly way and kept on smiling and being humble to the very end. Even after Watanabe screwed over his grape shot by gaining life he wasn't disheartened and was willing to go through the motions again. That's how a champion should be: humble, kind, and strong willed.

"Deathrite Shaman, gain 2." Hahahahahaha! Yuuya is such a great guy!

These guys have the coolest names ever. Stanislav Cifka and Yuuya Watanabe

Cifka must be a parent because he has truly MASTERED the dad noise. well done sir

Such an amazing match I come back and watch it every now and again

This may have been boring for Watanabe, but for viewers this is quite enjoyable to watch, especially when one understands what's going on.

cifka is my favorite player i wish i had a way to tell him i love the way he plays and the decks

How Watanabe shuffles his deck is so satisfying!

Ten years later and this is still my idea of peak Magic. Sure, the ban was right, but before the ban piloting that deck is pure genius.

I'm so glad how much magic coverage has progressed since this. You can hear the players over the commentators, theres large periods of silence from the commentators, any newish player will be completely lost trying to keep up

They left off Bob Maher in the list of PT Winners that used Treetop Village. He ran Villages in his Extended Oath deck in PT Chicago 1999.

I have not a single clue wtf is going on

I really like that in a PT finals game that could get boring fast, Cifka and Watanabe are just all smiles and laughs during their matches.

the sighs are real lol

Is... Is he holding his breath for like 10-15 seconds at a time, then sighing it all out?

I've watched this video at least 3 times and it's still awesome every time!!

It's in to come back and watch bdm say " yuuya's not eligible for hof until 2016" and now here we are

love both of the players tremendous expressions watching vigorously at a one sided game

Who here 2020 this is my favorite onwy

As someone who started playing magic during 4th edition ice age years thank you for showing the cards that you are talking about on the side. I was just curious about the game and got in a mood to watch a game and its nice to see the cards to have that refrence.

"I need you to make a play soon" he's been thinking for like 3 minutes, the other guys takes about 15 minutes in his turns. Wow.

FUN and INTERACTIVE Magic

The skill it takes to keep track of each step and all your mana and every possible outcome is insane.

Honestly this is the most interesting finals match I've seen in a tournament sense PT RTR, I love these weird decks.

"So much sighing in this Top 8." "Maybe we can just hear it better. Maybe they're always sighing, every show!"

This is basically high tide in modern

Awesome! I really enjoyed watching this :D

I love that a good and honest combo deck has finally won a Pro Tour after so long. It's about time they got their time again. And what a fun deck it is.

wow. watanabe gain 2 after grapeshot

What this looks like when you are not into Magic too much: Cifka juggles his card for 5 minutes, then something magic happens and watanabe surrenders. :D

I relooked over the decklist and your right, thank you ^_^

Watanabe's sportsmanship and respect is so admirable. He wants to win hes a competitor, but he still respects his opponent

You wouldn't believe how much I miss Deathrite Shaman...

I remember watching this the day it happened, going to the next event building the deck and then it got banned the week after. Since then every Modern deck ive built has had something banned LOL

Yup. Thank you both.

those are so freaking helpful thank you

RIP Deathrite Shaman, I don't miss you~ Oh and Bloodbraid Elf.

Anyone else notice that throughout the entire match, Cifka drank about 4 different beverages???

Cifka and Watanabe are great players. I look forward in seeing them in future Pro Tours.

Holy fucking shit. I thought 'I'll watch magic for a minute or 2'... Holy shit. 2 hours later, and what a beast of a deck what the fuck. How many cards of that are still legal?

This is exactly why Second sunrise was banned.

I can't imagine why this deck got banned...

What an amazing game. These contraptions you can build out of innocuous parts.

For real. That was what I took home from this, Watanabe is a really classy competitor. To even focus and assist with the combo, just classy.

wonder if Watanabe had marked cards here

When's kenny or mcnuggets going to play championship , with a randy magic half time show?

I have never seen a Pro Tour final where both players are laughing and smiling throughout the match. Best final in years, congrats to Cifka

yea, love your vids!

Game 3- “should I continue?”

Yuuya plays more cards that got banned, funny to think about really.

Still watching this. Cifka's deck is mind blowing.

Thanks!

that was the most ridiculous game five EVER

Why do people hate on combo decks? All that's needed to kill them is a well timed piece of removal or counterspell.

You sir, deserve a prize!

That combo deck was just awesome to follow...

Watanabe, Japan's biggest troll ^^ ... I love this match.

anyone else see that Cifka has at least 3 drinks with him (sprite, orange fantana, and sprite)

Cifka, the hero!! Thank you...

i love how manner Yuuya is when it comes to helping Cifka keep track of mana and his storm count. That guy is a total boss in my books

before watching this i checked cifka's decklist and couldnt figure out how he is going to win games...

FUCKING EGGS

I'm still impressed by this deck

So even now so far away from this pt it's so entertaining to watch when eggs was an insane deck. Granted it's still okay but no sunrise is sad. This is so much fun to watch and the absurdity of how much it took to win in game 5 this was so much fun.

1:47:03 loud sarcastic clap telling the sleeping audience the match is over.

Well now i know why the professor hates eggs deck...

I love to time travel Doc and I had toe whole thing set up great...

that was awesome!

I played a match on MTGO, and someone started playing Cifka's deck, card for card, and I just quit

the only reason this match sucks is because of cifka sighing all the goddamn time

love this guy

Cifka is very charismatic and seems to be a nice person want more too see from him in the future

SIGHHH

WHEN MAGIC WAS MAGIC NOW EVERY ONE PLAY THE SAME DECKS XD

Wow I watched the whole thing!

Second Sunrise, when it was printed, was a very very unique effect. It's good to see some redundancy now with Faith's Reward. I absolutely love this deck. It is a triumph of true innovation.

So glad this stupid fucking deck got nerfed.

Yuuya was so fucking done halfway through game one. The boi just starts rolling dice on the table 😂

This was like watching one player play Magic - and other player play solitaire

thanx, makes sense now.

thanks alot :D

Sifka seems like a nice and humble guy. Congrats to him.

thanks

love this deck awesome

These mechanism-artifact decks are scary!

wow! that was exciting!!!

Great final.

Good comeback!

Oh, thats interesting, thanks for letting me know.

love it

finally good volume!!!!

Amazing Game! The Great Cifka!