2012–13 Pro Tour Season

2012–13 Pro Tour Season
Player of the Year	Josh Utter-Leyton
Rookie of the Year	Felipe Tapia Becerra
World Champion	Yuuya Watanabe
World Magic Cup Champions	Taiwan
Hall of Fame inductions	Paulo Vitor D. da Rosa Kenji Tsumura Masashi Oiso Patrick Chapin
PTs	3
Grand Prix	44
Previous season: 2012 Next season: 2013–14

The 2012–13 Pro Tour season was the eighteenth Pro Tour season. It started on 19 May 2012 with Grand Prix Malmö, and ended on 19 May 2013 with the conclusion of Pro Tour Dragon's Maze.

Grand Prix (May–July 2012)

GP Malmö	GP Minneapolis	GP Anaheim	GP Manila
Date: 19–20 May 2012	Date: 19–20 May 2012	Date: 26–27 May 2012	Date: 16–17 June 2012
Format: Limited	Format: Standard	Format: Block Constructed	Format: Standard
Attendance: 922	Attendance: 1052	Attendance: 938	Attendance: 1108
1. Matteo Versari	1. Christian Calcano	1. Marc Lalague	1. Yuuya Watanabe
2. Oscar Almgren	2. Brad Nelson	2. Paul Rietzl	2. Rick Lee
3. Søren Larsen	3. Rick Stout	3. Noah Koessel	3. Hironobu Sugaya
4. Pere Llimós Muntal	4. Stephen Bishop	4. Eric Froehlich	4. Richmond Tan
5. Jasper Grimmer	5. Taylor Laehn	5. Michael Hopkins	5. Jonathan Luces
6. Jon Westberg	6. Josh Utter-Leyton	6. Brian Kibler	6. Martin Jůza
7. Samuele Estratti	7. Ben Friedman	7. Alex Sittner	7. Weng Heng Soh
8. David Hylander	8. Jerret Schultz	8. Jason Rosellini	8. Jacklord Nerez

GP Yokohama	GP Vancouver	GP Atlanta	GP Ghent
Date: 23–24 June 2012	Date: 23–24 June 2012	Date: 30 June–1 July 2012	Date: 21–22 July 2012
Format: Modern	Format: Limited	Format: Legacy	Format: Legacy
Attendance: 1523	Attendance: 849	Attendance: 905	Attendance: 1345
1. Jyun'ichi Miyajima	1. David Stroud	1. Gaudenis Vidugiris	1. Timo Schünemann
2. Kei Umehara	2. Jeremey Schofield	2. Michael Majors	2. Lukas Maurer
3. Satoshi Yamaguchi	3. Steven Riecken	3. Daryl Ayers	3. Emanuele Marcotti
4. Toshiyuki Kadooka	4. Marcin Sciesinski	4. Fred Edelkamp	4. Elias Watsfeldt
5. Hiroya Miyamoto	5. Colin Miller	5. Ben Stark	5. Max Sjöblom
6. Yuki Yotsumoto	6. Brian Wong	6. J. Sawyer Lucy	6. Elias Klocker
7. Youichi Nagami	7. Sean Peterson	7. Gerardo Fedon	7. Andreas Milillo
8. Masaki Ushijima	8. Morgan Chang	8. Sam Black	8. Tristan Polzl

GP São Paulo	GP Columbus	GP Shanghai
Date: 21–22 July 2012	Date: 21–22 July 2012	Date: 28–29 July 2012
Format: Limited	Format: Modern	Format: Limited
Attendance: 738	Attendance: 1046	Attendance: 836
1. Reinaldo Gomes da Silva Jr.	1. Jacob Maynard	1. Bo Li
2. Rodrigo Gonçalves dos Santos	2. Lucas Siow	2. Fengwen Gu
3. Thiago Oliveira	3. Max Tietze	3. Nan Wu
4. José Francisco Dantas Mangueira da Silva	4. Aaron Estrin	4. Rei Satou
5. Luiz Henrique Martine de Lima	5. Shahar Shenhar	5. Yang Wang
6. Guido Quintana	6. Chris Piland	6. Nicholas Jonathan Wong
7. Rafael Mendonca	7. Orrin Beasley	7. Xiang Xue Song
8. Daniel Fior	8. Caleb Estrada	8. Toshiya Kanegawa

2012 World Magic Cup

16–19 August 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

Place	Country	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Place	Country	Player	Prize	Pro Points
1	Taiwan	Tzu Ching Kuo	$10,000	8	5	Croatia	Grgur Petric Maretic	$1,500	5
		Tung-Yi Cheng	$10,000	8			Toni Portolan	$1,500	5
		Yu Min Yang	$10,000	8			Stjepan Sučić	$1,500	5
		Paul Renie	$10,000	8			Goran Elez	$1,500	5
2	Puerto Rico	Jorge Iramain	$5,000	7	6	Scotland	Stephen Murray	$1,500	5
		Gabriel Nieves	$5,000	7			Bradley Barclay	$1,500	5
		Cesar Soto	$5,000	7			Andrew Morrison	$1,500	5
		Jonathan Paez	$5,000	7			Chris Davie	$1,500	5
3	Poland	Tomek Pedrakowski	$2,500	6	7	Philippines	Andrew Cantillana	$1,500	5
		Mateusz Kopeć	$2,500	6			Gerald Camangon	$1,500	5
		Adam Bubacz	$2,500	6			Zax Ozaki	$1,500	5
		Jan Pruchniewicz	$2,500	6			Jeremy Bryan Domocmat	$1,500	5
4	Hungary	Tamás Glied	$2,500	6	8	Slovakia	Robert Jurkovic	$1,500	5
		Gabor Kocsis	$2,500	6			Ivan Floch	$1,500	5
		Tamás Nagy	$2,500	6			Filip Valis	$1,500	5
		Máté Schrick	$2,500	6			Patrik Surab	$1,500	5

Grand Prix (August 2012)

GP Boston
Date: 25–26 August 2012
Format: Limited
Attendance: 1845
1. Brian Demars
2. Robert Victory
3. Cedric Phillips
4. Alex Lloyd
5. Kevin Michael
6. Jason Ford
7. Thomas Holzinger
8. Shota Yasooka

2012 Magic Players Championship

29–31 August 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

Rank	Player	Prize	Pro points
1	Yuuya Watanabe	$40,000	11
2	Shota Yasooka	$20,000	13
3	Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa	$10,000	7
4	Jon Finkel	$10,000	7

Grand Prix (September–October 2012)

GP Moscow	GP San Jose, Costa Rica	GP San Jose, USA
Date: 15–16 September 2012	Date: 15–16 September 2012	Date: 13–14 October 2012
Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Team Limited
Attendance: 869	Attendance: 364	Attendance: 1713 (571 teams)
1. Luca Casadei	1. Shuhei Nakamura	1. Matt Sperling  1. David Williams  1. Paul Rietzl
2. Wenzel Krautmann	2. David Sharfman
3. Petr Kuznetsov	3. Ben Stark
4. Roman Masaladzhiu	4. Willy Edel	2. Maksym Gryn  2. Lucas Siow  2. Jamie Naylor
5. Anatoly Chuhwichev	5. Josh Utter-Leyton
6. Hannes Kerem	6. David Ochoa
7. Konstantin Yarosh	7. AJ Sacher	3. Conley Woods  3. Eric Froehlich  3. Owen Turtenwald
8. Dmitriy Tolkatchov	8. Pascal Maynard
		4. Ivan Floch  4. Lukas Jaklovsky  4. Stanislav Cifka

Pro Tour Return to Ravnica

19–21 October 2012 in Seattle, United States.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Stanislav Cifka	$40,000	30
2	Yuuya Watanabe	$20,000	24	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3	David Ochoa	$12,500	22
4	Lee Shi Tian	$12,500	22	First Hong Konger in a Pro Tour Top 8
5	Kelvin Chew	$10,000	20
6	Eduardo Sajgalik	$10,000	20
7	Willy Edel	$10,000	20	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
8	Pedro Carvalho	$10,000	20

Grand Prix (October 2012–February 2013)

GP Philadelphia	GP Auckland	GP Lyon	GP Chicago
Date: 27–28 October 2012	Date: 3–4 November 2012	Date: 3–4 November 2012	Date: 10–11 November 2012
Format: Limited	Format: Standard	Format: Modern	Format: Modern
Attendance: 1986	Attendance: 264	Attendance: 1326	Attendance: 1113
1. Shuhei Nakamura	1. Walker MacMurdo	1. Jérémy Dezani	1. Jacob Wilson
2. Lukas Jaklovsky	2. Adam Witton	2. Emanuel Sutor	2. Josh Utter-Leyton
3. Martin Jůza	3. Yoshitoki Sakai	3. Mathieu Hautot	3. Alex Majlaton
4. Greg Smith	4. Dylan Brown	4. Davide Colla	4. Edgar Flores
5. Jake Gans	5. Justin Cheung	5. Peter Dun	5. Shane McDermott
6. Harry Corvese	6. John Denz	6. Olivier Ruel	6. Ryan Hovis
7. Luis Scott-Vargas	7. Robert Liu	7. Clement Sarton	7. David Gleicher
8. Yuuya Watanabe	8. Anthony Purdom	8. Jonas Köstler	8. Michael Simon

GP Bochum	GP Charleston	GP Taipei	GP San Antonio
Date: 17–18 November 2012	Date: 17–18 November 2012	Date: 24–25 November 2012	Date: 24–25 November 2012
Format: Standard	Format: Standard	Format: Limited	Format: Standard
Attendance: 1723	Attendance: 661	Attendance: 727	Attendance: 807
1. Martin Jůza	1. Jon Bolding	1. Makihito Mihara	1. Tyler Lytle
2. Fabian Dickmann	2. Brian Eason	2. Akimasa Yamamoto	2. Matthew Pratser
3. Tomas Vanek	3. Matt Keene	3. Weng Heng Soh	3. Conley Woods
4. Kamil Napierski	4. Peter Kelly	4. Motoki Abe	4. Reid Duke
5. Enrico Van Eijsden	5. Reid Duke	5. Derek Tsang	5. Harry Corvese
6. Pierre Dagen	6. Patrick Cox	6. Yuuya Watanabe	6. Ben Rasmussen
7. Lukas Tajak	7. Gerry Thompson	7. Toshiaki Murata	7. Joel De Santos Jasso
8. Sascha Stein	8. Morgan Chang	8. Lee Shi Tian	8. Matthew Thurber

GP Lisbon	GP Nagoya	GP Toronto	GP Indianapolis
Date: 1–2 December 2012	Date: 8–9 December 2012	Date: 8–9 December 2012	Date: 22–23 December 2012
Format: Limited	Format: Standard	Format: Modern	Format: Limited
Attendance: 1340	Attendance: 1689	Attendance: 1051	Attendance: 817
1. Ivan Floch	1. Yuuji Okita	1. Willy Edel	1. Ben Stark
2. Elias Watsfeldt	2. Rahman Aryabhima	2. Sam Pardee	2. Chris Fennell
3. Sveinung Bjørnerud	3. Mamoru Nagai	3. Alon Chitiz	3. Luis Scott-Vargas
4. Johan Verhulst	4. Ryuji Murae	4. Alex Majlaton	4. Brian Demars
5. Lasse Nørgaard	5. Kyouhei Kawaguchi	5. James Vance	5. Matthias Hunt
6. David Calås	6. Kenji Tsumura	6. Collin Morton	6. Adam Yurchick
7. Helder Coelho	7. Kazumasa Satou	7. Jon Stern	7. Tom Martell
8. Pedro Carvalho	8. Kazuaki Shinohara	8. Dan Jordan	8. Tyler Lytle

GP Denver	GP Singapore	GP Atlantic City
Date: 5–6 January 2013	Date: 12–13 January 2013	Date: 12–13 January 2013
Format: Legacy	Format: Limited	Format: Standard
Attendance: 700	Attendance: 894	Attendance: 1648
1. Vidianto Wijaya	1. Ken Yukuhiro	1. Jon Stern
2. Patrick Cox	2. Chapman Sim	2. Josh Utter-Leyton
3. Ryan Pesch	3. Andrew Cantillana	3. Brad Nelson
4. Josh Ravitz	4. Lin Rui Zi	4. Ari Lax
5. Matt Nass	5. Jun'ya Nakamura	5. Matt Costa
6. Daniel Signorini	6. Toshiya Kanegawa	6. Ryan Leverone
7. Andrew Ohlschwager	7. Gao Zhen Xing	7. Lloyd Kurth
8. Donnie Peck	8. Hao-Shan Huang	8. Seneca Hobler

GP Sydney	GP Bilbao	GP London
Date: 19–20 January 2013	Date: 19–20 January 2013	Date: 9–10 February 2013
Format: Limited	Format: Modern	Format: Limited
Attendance: 686	Attendance: 988	Attendance: 1970
1. Allen Zhang	1. Mitchell Manders	1. Timothée Simonot
2. Justin Cheung	2. Lukas Jaklovsky	2. Bartłomiej Tomiczek
3. Tomoharu Saito	3. Louis Deltour	3. Manuel Hauck
4. Zen Takahashi	4. Vasco Bonifacio	4. David Reitbauer
5. Daniel Unwin	5. Lorenzo Calzolari	5. Andreas Nordahl
6. Martin Jůza	6. Martin Scheinin	6. Per Carlsson
7. Stanislav Cifka	7. Mathieu Deloly	7. Fabrizio Anteri
8. Adam Witton	8. Francisco Camacho	8. Jamie Ross

Pro Tour Gatecrash

15–17 February 2013 in Montreal, Canada.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Tom Martell	$40,000	30	Second Pro Tour Top 8
2	Joel Larsson	$20,000	24
3	Ben Stark	$12,500	22	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
4	Eric Froehlich	$12,500	22	Third Pro Tour Top 8
5	Owen Turtenwald	$10,000	20
6	Melissa DeTora	$10,000	20	First woman in a Pro Tour Top 8
7	Gerry Thompson	$10,000	20
8	Stephen Mann	$10,000	20

Grand Prix (February–May 2013)

GP Québec City	GP Charlotte	GP Yokohama	GP Verona
Date: 23–24 February 2013	Date: 23–24 February 2013	Date: 2–3 March 2013	Date: 9–10 March 2013
Format: Standard	Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Standard
Attendance: 806	Attendance: 2693	Attendance: 2297	Attendance: 1208
1. Nico Christiansen	1. Frank Skarren	1. Masaya Kitayama	1. Mike Krasnitski
2. Tzu Ching Kuo	2. Gerard Fabiano	2. Tian Yu Zhao	2. Andreas Nilsson
3. Felipe Tapia Becerra	3. Patrick Sullivan	3. Sam Black	3. Jérémy Dezani
4. Reid Duke	4. Aaron Lewis	4. Makihito Mihara	4. Samuele Estratti
5. Thomas Holzinger	5. Richard Nguyen	5. Yasutaka Hibino	5. Toni Ramis Pascual
6. Wilson Wong	6. Ben Isgur	6. Shintarou Ishimura	6. Piotr Wald
7. Maxime Cantin	7. Ben Stark	7. Tomomi Shiraishi	7. Shahar Shenhar
8. Wenzel Krautmann	8. Antonino Baldasari	8. Tomoya Motomura	8. Max Schultze

GP Rio de Janeiro	GP Utrecht	GP San Diego	GP Pittsburgh
Date: 9–10 March 2013	Date: 16–17 March 2013	Date: 16–17 March 2013	Date: 23–24 March 2013
Format: Standard	Format: Team Limited	Format: Modern	Format: Limited
Attendance: 709	Attendance: 2031 (677 teams)	Attendance: 759	Attendance: 1628
1. José Francisco Dantas Mangueira da Silva	1. Fredrik Carlsson  1. Jonathan Bergström  1. Tomas Westling	1. Nathan Holiday	1. Brock Parker
2. Arthur Villela		2. Sammy Tuckeman	2. Alec Nezin
3. Andrés Monsalve		3. Eric Froehlich	3. Gabby Izsak
4. Walter Coquemala Filho	2. Joel Larsson  2. Elias Watsfeldt  2. Mikael Magnusson	4. David Sharfman	4. Eric Froehlich
5. Wellington Cordeiro		5. Bryan De La Torre	5. Matthew Falcioni
6. Martín Quiroga		6. Brian Kibler	6. Adam Carrasco
7. Jorge Henrique Siqueira	3. René Kraft  3. Tobias Radloff  3. Martin Zimmermann	7. Ken Yukuhiro	7. Michael Derczo
8. Matías Arvigo		8. Matt Ferrando	8. Chase Kovac
	4. Matteo Versari  4. Alessandro Lippi  4. Samuele Estratti

GP Strasbourg	GP Beijing	GP Portland
Date: 13–14 April 2013	Date: 11–12 May 2013	Date: 11–12 May 2013
Format: Legacy	Format: Limited	Format: Modern
Attendance: 1364	Attendance: 894	Attendance: 979
1. Thomas Enevoldsen	1. Quan Zhou	1. Sam Pardee
2. Jacob Wilson	2. Nonthakorn Kositaporn	2. Joe Demestrio
3. Alexander Hayne	3. Toshiya Kanegawa	3. Zvi Mowshowitz
4. Michael Bonde	4. Wei Quan Wong	4. Dan MacDonald
5. Alexey Romanchuk	5. Daniel Godfrey	5. Mattia Rizzi
6. Hove Thießen	6. Shuo Li	6. Orie Guo
7. Christopher Brunner	7. Nandi Zhang	7. Matt Nass
8. Fabian Görzgen	8. Bo Li	8. Paul Rietzl

Pro Tour Dragon's Maze

17–19 May 2013 in San Diego, California, United States.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Craig Wescoe	$40,000	30	Third Pro Tour Top 8
2	Dusty Ochoa	$20,000	24
3	Makihito Mihara	$12,500	22	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
4	Josh Utter-Leyton	$12,500	22	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
5	Rob Castellon	$10,000	20	Pro Tour debut
6	Andrew Shrout	$10,000	20	Pro Tour debut
7	Matej Zatlkaj	$10,000	20	Second Pro Tour Top 8
8	Andrejs Prost	$10,000	20	Second Pro Tour Top 8

Notes

^I Yuuya Watanabe is considered the 2012 World Champion, as he won the inaugural Players Championship event, later renamed the World Championship.