Pro Tour Journey into Nyx

Pro Tour Journey into Nyx was the third Pro Tour of the 2013–14 season. The event had 349 competitors, and took place on 16–18 May 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. The formats were Block Constructed and Theros block Booster draft, and was the first constructed premier event where Journey into Nyx was legal. American Hall of Famer Patrick Chapin, previously without a premier event win, took down the event by defeating South Korea's Nam Sung-wook in the final.
As Block Constructed was abolished as a premier event format after the 2013–14 season, Pro Tour Journey into Nyx was the last Block constructed Pro Tour to date.
==Day one==
The Pro Tour began with a Theros block Booster draft. Famous players who started the event with a perfect 3–0 start included Rob Dougherty, Darwin Kastle, Patrick Chapin, and reigning Player of the Year Josh Utter-Leyton. Five rounds of Block Constructed followed, in which a few popular archetypes emerged. The two arguably most significant teams, Team Pantheon and ChannelFireball, both arrived at a similar-looking black-blue-green ("BUG") Control deck featuring <c>Prognostic Sphinx</c>. Other popular decks included Junk Constellation, centered around <c>Eidolon of Blossoms</c>; a Naya-colored midrange deck playing white primarily for <c>Elspeth, Sun's Champion</c>; Mono-Black Aggro; and various Heroic decks, mainly red-white or white-blue. At the end of the day, however, Patrick Chapin stood atop the standings, piloting a Junk-colored midrange deck. Josh Utter-Leyton was also undefeated playing ChannelFireball's BUG Control. Meanwhile, Italy's Andrea Mengucci garnered attention for his seven rounds in the "King of the Hill"-seat in the feature match area. The defending Pro Tour champion always receives a round 1 feature match at the King of the Hill-table; the winner of this feature match retains their seat in the feature match area. After beating reigning Pro Tour champion Shaun McLaren, the relatively unknown Mengucci held the seat until he was defeated by Chapin in round 8.
The top eight players after day one:
Rank	Player 	Points	Rank	Player 	Points
1 	Patrick Chapin 	24 	5 	Darwin Kastle 	21
2 	Josh Utter-Leyton	24 	6 	Andrea Mengucci 	21
3 	Joel Larsson 	21 	7 	Reid Duke 	21
4 	Todd Anderson 	21 	8 	Ricardo Sanchez Garrido	21
==Day two==
Andrea Mengucci managed to reclaim the King of the Hill-seat in the second draft with a 3–0 performance, placing him in a first place tie, with Patrick Chapin, who went 2–1, going into the final rounds of constructed. These saw Reid Duke reaching his first Pro Tour top eight by defeating Guillaume Wafo-Tapa in round 15. Wafo-Tapa came close to a sixth Pro Tour final day, but lost the last three rounds to finish 11–5. The last of these was to Jamie Parke, who in his return to the Pro Tour made the rare accomplishment to have a Pro Tour top eight in three different decades. In a similar situation was Chapin, who kept winning, and held the first seed going into Sunday. Josh Utter-Leyton, like Chapin, picked up his fifth Pro Tour top eight; he defeated Joel Larsson in the final round of Swiss to advance to the final day of competition. Also in the top eight was Pro Tour Return to Ravnica champion Stanislav Cifka, piloting the only aggro deck in the elimination rounds; Andrea Mengucci; popular Japanese streamer Yuuki Ichikawa; and Nam Sung-wook, the first Korean player to make it to a Pro Tour top eight.
==Top 8==
The top eight was the story of how Hall of Famer Patrick Chapin earned his first Pro Tour victory. Throughout the tournament, Chapin had maintained that he regarded it primarily as a qualifier event for the World Championship, and that his goal was to win the Pro Tour in order to then become the World Champion. His Junk-colored midrange deck had provided him with a comfortable first place seed going into the top eight, and his success continued in the elimination rounds. Against Josh Utter-Leyton, he got fortunate by drawing consecutive lands after keeping a one-lander, and in the final against Korean Nam Sung-wook, he would not be denied, winning the match 3–1.
Place	Player 	Deck 	Prize 	Pro Points	Comment
1 	Patrick Chapin 	Junk Midrange 	$40,000	30 	Fifth Pro Tour Top 8
2 	Nam Sung-wook 	BUG Constellation	$20,000	24 	First South Korean in a Pro Tour Top 8
3 	Josh Utter-Leyton	BUG Control 	$12,500	22 	Fifth Pro Tour Top 8
4 	Yuuki Ichikawa 	Naya Midrange 	$12,500	22 	
5 	Reid Duke 	BUG Control 	$10,000	20 	
6 	Andrea Mengucci 	Naya Midrange 	$10,000	20 	
7 	Stanislav Cifka 	Red-White Heroic 	$10,000	20 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
8 	Jamie Parke 	BUG Control 	$10,000	20 	Third Pro Tour Top 8
==External links==
*Pro Tour Journey into Nyx Coverage
*Pro Tour Journey into Nyx final standings
*Top Block Constructed decklists
*Pro Tour Journey into Nyx Invitation list
*Video coverage playlist
==References==
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