I am in the middle of a lot of media this weekend at PT: Kyoto. In addition to the normal video coverage and blogging for Top8Magic, I will be making my first stab at Twittering via the official coverage Twitter feed and you can follow along at MagicProTour.

I am excited to get things underway. We spent the day yesterday poring over decklists and talking to players and it sounds like the field for Standard is going to be largely Red-White Lark, Faeries, 5-Color, Blightning, and various Heights decks. Of course the decks we will be looking to Deck Tech will have unique takes on established archetypes or will be something unexpected like the Green-White Planeswalker deck from the SCG 5K last weekend which can Garruck out Martial Coup and ultimate those tokens a turn later for the win.

Also spent the morning yesterday taking in the local sights which prompted a new game from me and Nate Price that involves taking pictures of other members of the coverage team taking pictures. We had a four picture parlay at one point that is unlikely to be topped now that everyone is on guard.