So one 6-2 player did advance to the Top 8 but as predicted — based on a round two loss to someone who stayed in and lost something like four more matches — MichaelJ’s breakers left him in the dreaded virtual Top 8.

Mike earned a draft set for his efforts, which he promptly repaid to me from a draft gone by.

On the brighter side, Nick Feitel — aka Kephalid — was waiting to play in the finals as I was packing up to head out to meet my wife for dinner. He was playing a WW deck designed by our Mockvitational winner. The deck is called Kithkin Calcano.