2017–18 Pro Tour Season

2017–18 Pro Tour Season

Player of the Year	undetermined
Rookie of the Year	undetermined
World Champion	William Jensen
Hall of Fame inductions	Josh Utter-Leyton Martin Jůza
Pro Tours	4
Grand Prix events	67
Previous season: 2016–17	Next season: 2018–19

The 2017–18 Pro Tour season is the twenty-third Pro Tour season. It started on 5 August 2017 with Grand Prix Minneapolis, and will finish on 16 September 2018 with the conclusion of Grand Prix events in Hong Kong and Stockholm.

Grand Prix (August–October 2017)

GP Minneapolis	GP Birmingham	GP São Paulo	GP Denver
Date: 5–6 August 2017	Date: 12–13 August 2017	Date: 12–13 August 2017	Date: 19–20 August 2017
Format: Standard	Format: Modern	Format: Modern	Format: Standard
Attendance: 1150	Attendance: 1743	Attendance: 1200	Attendance: 1188
1. Steve Locke	1. Loïc Le Briand	1. Joao Lelis	1. Brad Nelson
2. Corey Baumeister	2. Steve Hatto	2. Vitor Grassato	2. Brian Braun-Duin
3. Ray Huang	3. Oscar Christensen	3. Danilo Ramos Mopesto	3. John Rolf
4. Matt Sikkink Johnson	4. Alberto Galicia	4. Rafael Costa Zaghi	4. Corey Baumeister
5. Robert Castro	5. Piotr Glogowski	5. Carlos Romão	5. Collin Rountree
6. Brad Nelson	6. Ivan De Castro Sanchez	6. Fabian Nunez	6. Sam Pardee
7. Daniel Weiser	7. George Channing	7. Julian Reyes	7. Gregory Michel
8. Nathan Lothamer	8. Simon Nielsen	8. Jean Sato	8. Zachary Kiihne

GP Metz	GP Indianapolis	GP Turin
Date: 26–27 August 2017	Date: 26–27 August 2017	Date: 2–3 September 2017
Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Standard
Attendance: 1483	Attendance: 1187	Attendance: 926
1. Francesco Fritto Hugony	1. Andrew Cuneo	1. Robin Dolar
2. Martin Jůza	2. Kyle Boggemes	2. Leon van der Linden
3. Heiko Lehnert	3. Steve Rubin	3. Dario Parazzoli
4. Theophile Delavy	4. Andrew Funkhouser	4. Marius Heuser
5. Elias Klocker	5. Kristopher McCord	5. Andrea Sonzogni
6. Mitchell Manders	6. Michael Peretz	6. Alain Bardini
7. Christoffer Enggaard Larsen	7. Richard Richey	7. Christian Hauck
8. Wolfgang Bach	8. Eli Kassis	8. Simon Nielsen

GP Washington, D.C.	GP Shizuoka	GP Providence
Date: 2–3 September 2017	Date: 30 September–1 October 2017	Date: 30 September–1 October 2017
Format: Standard	Format: Team Limited	Format: Team Limited
Attendance: 1566	Attendance: 1674 (558 teams)	Attendance: 1689 (563 teams)
1. Matt Severa	1. Michio Abe  1. Syo Hayakawa  1. Kentarou Tachibana	1. Andrew Baeckstrom  1. Martin Jůza  1. Corey Burkhart
2. Collins Mullen
3. Yuxuan Zhu
4. Corey Baumeister	2. Kelvin Chew  2. Lee Shi Tian  2. Jérémy Dezani	2. Owen Turtenwald  2. William Jensen  2. Reid Duke
5. Bolun Zhang
6. Jose Neris
7. Bradley Yoo	3. Yuuya Watanabe  3. Hajime Nakamura  3. Shōta Yasooka	3. Lucas Muxi Li  3. Zile Yao  3. Haoran Ling
8. Robert DiMaggio
	4. Taisuke Ishii  4. Sugaya Hironobu  4. Yukio Kozakai	4. Will Sullivan  4. John Twardowski  4. Cody Delpozzo

2017 World Championship

6–8 October 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Rank	Player	Prize	Pro Points
1	William Jensen	$100,000	13
2	Javier Dominguez	$50,000	8
3	Josh Utter-Leyton	$25,000	6
4	Kelvin Chew	$25,000	6

Grand Prix (October 2017)

GP Hong Kong	GP Liverpool	GP Phoenix
Date: 28–29 October 2017	Date: 28–29 October 2017	Date: 28–29 October 2017
Format: Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 727	Attendance: 1209	Attendance: 1114
1. Rei Sato	1. Marc Purvis	1. Sean Miller
2. Farrand Lee	2. Torsten Anders	2. Reid Duke
3. Jacob Hart	3. Thoralf Severin	3. Paul Dean
4. Lee Shi Tian	4. Bernardo Santos	4. Anton Jonsson
5. Vinod Prabhu	5. Carmine D'Aniello	5. Jacob Nagro
6. Jun Hao Tay	6. Hannes Mauch	6. Christopher Finley
7. Hoi Chick	7. Friso Abcouwer	7. Christian Calcano
8. Kazuyuki Takimura	8. Karl Sarap	8. Kai Ruan

Pro Tour Ixalan

3–5 November 2017 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Seth Manfield	$50,000	30	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
2	Pascal Maynard	$20,000	28	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3	John Rolf	$15,000	24
4	Samuel Ihlenfeldt	$12,500	22	Pro Tour debut
5	Mike Sigrist	$10,000	20	Third Pro Tour Top 8
6	Christian Hauck	$9,000	18
7	Guillaume Matignon	$7,500	17	Third Pro Tour Top 8
8	Piotr Glogowski	$6,000	16	First Pole in a Pro Tour Top 8

Grand Prix (November 2017)

GP Shanghai	GP Warsaw	GP Atlanta
Date: 11–12 November 2017	Date: 11–12 November 2017	Date: 11–12 November 2017
Format: Standard	Format: Standard	Format: Standard
Attendance: 714	Attendance: 1246	Attendance: 1397
1. Song Huachao	1. Jean-Emmanuel Depraz	1. Alex Lloyd
2. Hironao Tanaka	2. Valerio Luminati	2. Ben Stark
3. Wing Chun Yam	3. Louis Bauchaud	3. Sergio Garcia
4. Okada Naoya	4. Samuel Vuillot	4. Lawrence Vess
5. Takuma Morofuji	5. Alexander Privalov	5. Trey Van Cleave
6. Yuuya Watanabe	6. Jedrek Szmyd	6. Corey Baumeister
7. Lee Wing Tat	7. Grzegorz Kowalski	7. Petr Sochůrek
8. Kelvin Chew	8. Hannes Kerem	8. Sam Zakrewski

GP Portland	GP Lyon
Date: 18–19 November 2017	Date: 25–26 November 2017
Format: Standard	Format: Team Limited
Attendance: 1688	Attendance: 1893 (631 teams)
1. Shahar Shenhar	1. Thomas Enevoldsen  1. Christoffer Enggaard Larsen  1. Michael Bonde
2. Brandon Goe
3. James Stevenson
4. Michael Bernat	2. Marcus Hensing  2. Kasper Nielsen  2. Alexander Pasgaard
5. Christoffer Enggaard Larsen
6. Alex Wilson
7. Derek Candelario	3. Mats Ellingsen  3. Sveinung Bjørnerud  3. Andreas Ganz
8. Stephen Barnett
	4. Corrado De Sio  4. Jacopo Bartollini  4. Eli Gammaitoni

2017 World Magic Cup

1–3 December 2017 in Nice, France.

Place	Country	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Place	Country	Player	Prize	Pro Points
1	Japan	Yuuya Watanabe	$15,000	8	5	Wales	Philip Griffiths	$4,000	5
		Kenta Harane					Sam Rolph
		Shōta Yasooka					Aaron Boyhan
2	Poland	Grzegorz Kowalski	$8,500	7	6	Austria	Oliver Polak-Rottmann	$4,000	5
		Radek Kaczmarczyk					Elias Klocker
		Piotr Glogowski					Adrian Johann Schrenk
3	Germany	Marc Tobiasch	$6,000	6	7	China	Yuchen Liu	$4,000	5
		Philipp Krieger					Lu Chao
		Moritz Templin					Gao Tan
4	Italy	Andrea Mengucci	$6,000	6	8	Slovakia	Ivan Floch	$4,000	5
		Adriano Moscato					Peter Snoha
		Mattia Rizzi					Ondrej Kedrovic

Grand Prix (December 2017–January 2018)

GP Madrid	GP Oklahoma City	GP Singapore	GP New Jersey
Date: 9–10 December 2017	Date: 9–10 December 2017	Date: 16–17 December 2017	Date: 16–17 December 2017
Format: Team Modern	Format: Modern	Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 1875 (625 teams)	Attendance: 1415	Attendance: 574	Attendance: 1135
1. Rodrigo Togores  1. Cristian Ortiz Ros  1. Adrian Ramiro Cano	1. Larry Li	1. Lim Zhong Yi	1. Kale Thompson
	2. Adam Pannone	2. Pan Minxing	2. Seth Manfield
	3. Nathaniel Smith	3. Tomoharu Saito	3. Gerard Fabiano
2. Luis Salvatto  2. Pedro De Diego  2. Francisco Sifuentes	4. Seth Manfield	4. Gu Rong	4. Mike Sigrist
	5. Patrick Tierney	5. Wing Chun Yam	5. Daniel Weiser
	6. Julian John	6. Kenta Harane	6. Valentin Mackl
3. Kasper Brans  3. Luca Van Deun  3. Wouter Biesmans	7. Raymond Detiveaux	7. Shuhei Nakamura	7. Nicholas Mohammed
	8. Michael Byars	8. Jefferson Lee	8. Joshua Taylor
4. Marius Heuser  4. Xiaoliang Yang  4. Christian Hauck

GP Santa Clara	GP Indianapolis	GP London	GP Houston
Date: 6–7 January 2018	Date: 20–21 January 2018	Date: 27–28 January 2018	Date: 27–28 January 2018
Format: Team Trios Constructed	Format: Team Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 1479 (493 teams)	Attendance: 1542 (514 teams)	Attendance: 1976	Attendance: 887
1. William Ho  1. John Martin  1. Jeremy Frye	1. Xinyu Fei  1. Chih-Cheng Yeh  1. Zirui Zhou	1. Marcelino Freeman	1. Axel Martinez
		2. Steve Rubin	2. Joe Demestrio
		3. Seth Manfield	3. Bradley Yoo
2. Jonathan Anghelescu  2. Vidianto Wijaya  2. Logan Nettles	2. Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa  2. Eric Froehlich  2. Ben Stark	4. Alexander Kreuz	4. Randy Perez
		5. Brad Nelson	5. Robert Swarowski
		6. Alexander Hulten	6. Brian Yin
3. Galan Falakfarsa  3. Dan Mabee  3. Isaac Sears	3. Eric Severson  3. Ben Weitz  3. Neal Oliver	7. Mark Jacobson	7. Ben Yu
		8. Eduardo Sajgalik	8. Phimus Pan
4. Joe Demestrio  4. Nathan Holiday  4. Ricky Sidher	4. Shahar Shenhar  4. Lance Austin  4. Oliver Tiu

Pro Tour Rivals of Ixalan

2–4 February 2018 in Bilbao, Spain.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Luis Salvatto	$50,000	30	Second Pro Tour Top 8, first Argentinean to win a Pro Tour
2	Gerry Thompson	$20,000	28	Third Pro Tour Top 8
3	Pascal Vieren	$15,000	24
4	Ken Yukuhiro	$12,500	22	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
5	Javier Dominguez	$10,000	20
6	Reid Duke	$9,000	18	Third Pro Tour Top 8
7	Jean-Emmanuel Depraz	$7,500	17
8	Andrea Mengucci	$6,000	16	Third Pro Tour Top 8

Grand Prix (February–May 2018)

GP Toronto	GP Lyon	GP Memphis	GP Madrid
Date: 10–11 February 2018	Date: 17–18 February 2018	Date: 24–25 February 2018	Date: 10–11 March 2018
Format: Modern	Format: Modern	Format: Standard	Format: Team Trios Constructed
Attendance: 1679	Attendance: 2058	Attendance: 1082	Attendance: 1062 (354 teams)
1. Daniel Ward	1. Grzegorz Kowalski	1. Tyler Schroeder	1. Christoph Green  1. Ben Jones  1. Charles Eliatamby
2. Jon Stern	2. Marcio Carvalho	2. Aaron Barich
3. Luke Purcell	3. Joshua Bausch	3. Matthew Kling
4. Jonathan Zhang	4. Julien Stihle	4. Michael Cochran	2. Michael Bonde  2. Andreas Petersen  2. Thomas Enevoldsen
5. Bertrand Joseph-Pare	5. Davide Cappiello	5. Blake Miller
6. Alessandro Pogorzhelsky	6. David Juric	6. Andrew Tenjum
7. Ben Ragan	7. Marco De Togni	7. Heath Vance	3. Elias Watsfeldt  3. Joel Larsson  3. Per Nyström
8. Chris Dockrill	8. Matic Penko	8. Eric Froehlich
			4. Adriano Moscato  4. Carmine D'Aniello  4. Alessandro Lippi

GP Santiago	GP Phoenix	GP Kyoto	GP Amsterdam
Date: 10–11 March 2018	Date: 17–18 March 2018	Date: 24–25 March 2018	Date: 31 March–1 April 2018
Format: Team Limited	Format: Standard	Format: Team Trios Constructed	Format: Team Limited
Attendance: 783 (261 teams)	Attendance: 1332	Attendance: 2271 (757 teams)	Attendance: 1572 (524 teams)
1. Sebastian Pozzo  1. Luis Salvatto  1. Lucas Berthoud	1. Steve Locke	1. Ryouichi Yamamoto  1. Yuusuke Matsubara  1. Kazuki Takamura	1. Jeroen Kreijne  1. Simon Geurts  1. Pim Heijne
	2. Pierson Laughlin
	3. Matt Nass
2. Willy Edel  2. Juliano Gennari Souza  2. Thiago Saporito	4. Vikram Kudva	2. Yuki Yotsumoto  2. Ryota Endo  2. Koji Takeishi	2. Geoffrey Siron  2. Vincent Lemoine  2. Davy Loeb
	5. Sung-Jin Ahn
	6. Tate Donovan
3. Guilherme Medeiros Merjam  3. Carlos Romão  3. Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa	7. Alexander Corwith	3. Kentaro Ichihara  3. Takahiro Uemoto  3. Masataka Shibata	3. Gervaise Pechlar  3. Alex Ball  3. Guido Sondag
	8. Michael Hughes
4. Diego Roca Suárez  4. Marco Vargas  4. Alejandro Van Mourik		4. Kensuke Kato  4. Akira Tanaka  4. Fumiyasu Suzuike	4. Jasper Grimmer  4. Thoralf Severin  4. Arne Huschenbeth

GP Seattle	GP Seattle	GP Sydney	GP Hartford
Date: 6–7 April 2018	Date: 7–8 April 2018	Date: 14–15 April 2018	Date: 14–15 April 2018
Format: Legacy	Format: Standard	Format: Team Modern	Format: Modern
Attendance: 1664	Attendance: 1509	Attendance: 1050 (350 teams)	Attendance: 1799
1. Daniel Duterte	1. Gan Yan	1. Lechlan Saunders  1. Ryan Lewis-Jonns  1. Jessica Estephan	1. Matt Nass
2. Jérémy Dezani	2. Grayson Roberts		2. Michael Mapson
3. Sam Black	3. Jeremy Frye		3. Kellen Pastore
4. Keaton Wood	4. Gerry Thompson	2. Aidan Frisch  2. James O'Rourke  2. Jacob Golding	4. Gene Friedman
5. Noah Walker	5. Charles Wong		5. Matt Grahn
6. Steve Rubin	6. Slater Claudel		6. Frank Skarren
7. Luke Purcell	7. Matthew Dimaggio	3. Benny Yau  3. Mathieu Beaujard  3. Jonathan Venturi	7. Jonathan Sharp
8. Miranda Keith	8. Andrew Shain		8. Max McVety
		4. Dirk Crasto  4. Matt Rogers  4. Nick Barlow

GP Bologna	GP Colombus	GP Beijing	GP Dallas
Date: 28–29 April 2018	Date: 28–29 April 2018	Date: 5–6 May 2018	Date: 5–6 May 2018
Format: Team Limited	Format: Team Limited	Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance: 1440 (480 teams)	Attendance: 1329 (443 teams)	Attendance: 909	Attendance: 1043
1. Antonio Pinto  1. Davide Miani  1. Usama Sajjad	1. David Goldfarb  1. Edgar Magalhaes  1. Jacob Baugh	1. Zhiyang Zhang	1. Robert Brown
		2. Ken Yukuhiro	2. Will Craddock
		3. Ryosuke Urase	3. Aaron Rubin
2. Matthew Foulkes  2. Fabrizio Anteri  2. Peter Ward	2. Jeremy Lavrenz  2. James Lavrenz  2. Jake Lamb	4. Yuki Matsumoto	4. Vikram Kudva
		5. Souta Katakawa	5. Matt Stankey
		6. Rei Sato	6. Andrew Elenbogen
3. Joonas Eloranta  3. Jori Hukka  3. Matti Kuisma	3. Kellen Pastore  3. Steve Noga  3. Daniel Barkon	7. Zhi Yimin	7. José Daniel Garcias Rosas
		8. Mao Dun	8. William Hahn
4. Andrej Rutar  4. Robin Dolar  4. Davor Detecnik	4. Sam Black  4. Matt Severa  4. Andrew Baeckstrom

GP Birmingham	GP Birmingham	GP Toronto	GP Washington, D.C.
Date: 11–12 May 2018	Date: 12–13 May 2018	Date: 19–20 May 2018	Date: 26–27 May 2018
Format: Legacy	Format: Standard	Format: Team Trios Constructed	Format: Team Limited
Attendance: 1200	Attendance: 1169	Attendance: 1161 (387 teams)	Attendance: 1602 (534 teams)
1. Gary Campbell	1. Simon Nielsen	1. Morgan McLaughlin  1. Chris Harabas  1. Lucas Siow	1. Andrew Tenjum  1. Petr Sochůrek  1. Peter Ingram
2. Grzegorz Kowalski	2. Leo Lahonen
3. Peter Van Der Ham	3. Matt Brown
4. Johan De Gruyter	4. Martin Jůza	2. Brad Nelson  2. Seth Manfield  2. Brian Braun-Duin	2. Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa  2. Eric Froehlich  2. Ben Stark
5. Alexander Mertins	5. Etienne Busson
6. Janus Skovby Andersen	6. Goncalo Pinto
7. Bernardo Santos	7. Luke Southworth	3. Jennifer Crotts  3. Tyler Blum  3. Robert Smith	3. Ondřej Stráský  3. Oliver Tiu  3. Shahar Shenhar
8. Yuuta Takahashi	8. Rasmus Nilsson
		4. Oliver Tiu  4. Oliver Tomajko  4. Noah Walker	4. Brad Nelson  4. Brian Braun-Duin  4. Martin Müller

Pro Tour Dominaria

1–3 June 2018 in Richmond, Virginia, United States.

Place	Player	Prize	Pro Points	Comment
1	Wyatt Darby	$50,000	30
2	Goncalo Pinto	$20,000	28
3	Owen Turtenwald	$15,000	24	Fifth Pro Tour Top 8
4	Marcio Carvalho	$12,500	22	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
5	Kazuyuki Takimura	$10,000	20	Second Pro Tour Top 8
6	Thomas Hendriks	$9,000	18	Second Pro Tour Top 8
7	Ernest Lim	$7,500	17
8	Manual Lenz	$6,000	16

Grand Prix (June–July 2018)

GP Copenhagen	GP Las Vegas	GP Las Vegas
Date: 9–10 June 2018	Date: 15–16 June 2018	Date: 16–17 June 2018
Format: Standard	Format: Modern	Format: Limited
Attendance: 753	Attendance: 2776	Attendance: 2074
1. Tobias Maurer	1. Matt Nass	1. Michael Bernat
2. Francisco Sanchez	2. Yuri Ramsey	2. Austin Mowrey
3. Tim Kernke	3. Martin Jůza	3. Mark Jacobson
4. Javier Dominguez	4. Ben Friedman	4. Andrew Cuneo
5. Joakim Stahle-Nilsson	5. Luke Renaud	5. Steve Rubin
6. Lukas Blohon	6. Eli Kassis	6. Adam Fox
7. Christian Åhlström	7. Max Mick	7. Trevor Gower
8. Martin Dang	8. Patrick Tierney	8. José Daniel Garcia Rosas

GP Singapore	GP Pittsburgh	GP Barcelona
Date: 23–24 June 2018	Date: 23–24 June 2018	Date: 30 June–1 July 2018
Format: Standard	Format: Standard	Format: Modern
Attendance: 682	Attendance: 935	Attendance:
1. Yuuki Ichikawa	1. Braham Thomas
2. Tatsuhiko Ohki	2. Oliver Tiu
3. Grzegorz Kowalski	3. Morgan McLaughlin
4. Andy Chan	4. Jack Kiefer
5. Ryoichi Tamada	5. Scott Matthews
6. Rei Sato	6. Zach Allen
7. Ryo Okamoto	7. Mike Sigrist
8. Jingyang Li	8. Paul Dean

GP São Paulo	GP Chiba	GP Sacramento
Date: 7–8 July 2018	Date: 21–22 July 2018	Date: 21–22 July 2018
Format: Modern	Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance:	Attendance:	Attendance:

GP Turin	GP Minneapolis
Date: 28–29 July 2018	Date: 28–29 July 2018
Format: Limited	Format: Limited
Attendance:	Attendance:

Pro Tour 25th Anniversary

3–5 August 2018 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

Grand Prix (August–September 2018)

GP Brussels	GP Orlando	GP Providence	GP Los Angeles
Date: 11–12 August 2018	Date: 11–12 August 2018	Date: 18–19 August 2018	Date: 18–19 August 2018
Format: Standard	Format: Standard	Format: Standard	Format: Standard
Attendance:	Attendance:	Attendance:	Attendance:

GP Prague	GP Richmond	GP Richmond
Date: 25–26 August 2018	Date: 31 August–1 September 2018	Date: 1–2 September 2018
Format: Modern	Format: Legacy	Format: Standard
Attendance:	Attendance:	Attendance:

GP Detroit	GP Hong Kong	GP Stockholm
Date: 8–9 September 2018	Date: 15–16 September 2018	Date: 15–16 September 2018
Format: Team Modern	Format: Modern	Format: Modern
Attendance:	Attendance:	Attendance: