Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour season 2007

The 2007 Pro Tour season was the twelfth season of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour. On 9 February 2007 the season began with Pro Tour Geneva. It ended on 9 December 2007 with the conclusion of the 2007 World Championship in New York. The season consisted of 16 Grand Prixs and 5 Pro Tours, held in Geneva, Yokohama, San Diego, Valencia, and New York. At the end of the season Tomoharu Saitou from Japan was proclaimed Pro Player of the year. At the Worlds in New York the third class of the Hall of Fame was inducted. The inductees were Kai Budde, Zvi Mowshowitz, Tsuyoshi Fujita, Nicolai Herzog, and Randy Buehler.

Pro Tour – Geneva (9–11 February 2007)
Mike Hron of the United States won the Pro Tour, defeating Takuya Oosawa in the Japanese player's second finals appearance. Willy Edel of Brazil became the first South American player with three top eight finishes, and former of player of the year Kenji Tsumura reached the quarter finals for the fifth time.

Tournament data
Prize pool: $240,245 Players: 387 Format: Booster Draft (Time Spiral-Planar Chaos) Head Judge: David Vogin

Grand Prixs – Dallas, Singapore, Amsterdam, Kyoto, Massachusetts

 * GP Dallas (24–25 February)
 * Format: Extended
 * Attendance: 748
 * 1) 🇫🇷 Raphaël Lévy
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Paul Cheon
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Kenji Tsumura
 * 4) 🇺🇸 John Pelcak
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Mark Herberholz
 * 6) 🇺🇸 Paul Nguyen
 * 7) 🇺🇸 Alex Ledbetter
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Jim Davis


 * GP Singapore (3–4 March)
 * Format: Extended
 * Attendance: 331
 * 1) 🇫🇷 Raphaël Lévy
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Shingou Kurihara
 * 3) 🇫🇷 Antoine Ruel
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Osamu Fujita
 * 5) 🇫🇷 Olivier Ruel
 * 6) 🇯🇵 Koutarou Ootsuka
 * 7) 🇯🇵 Ryou Ogura
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Tomoharu Saitou


 * GP Amsterdam (10–11 March)
 * Format: Two-headed Giant Limited
 * Attendance: 1336 (668 teams)
 * 1) 🇸🇰 Richard Hornansky 🇸🇰 Michael Havlik
 * 2) 🇫🇷 Amiel Tenenbaum 🇫🇷 Gabriel Nassif
 * 3) Olaf Koster  Christian Kok
 * 4) Vassilis Fatouros  Georgios Kapalos


 * GP Kyoto (17–18 March)
 * Format: Standard
 * Attendance: 859
 * 1) 🇯🇵 Yuuya Watanabe
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Yuusuke Iwasaki
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Motokiyo Azuma
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Tsubasa Tomii
 * 5) 🇯🇵 Naoki Shimizu
 * 6) 🇯🇵 Ren Ishikawa
 * 7) 🇯🇵 Atsushi Wada
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Katsuhiro Ide


 * GP Massachusetts (31 March – 1 April)
 * Format: Two-Headed Giant Limited
 * Attendance: 690 (345 teams)
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Matt Wang 🇺🇸 Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Gerard Fabiano 🇺🇸 Eric Ziegler
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Ben Lundquist 🇺🇸 Timothy Aten
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Matt Rubin 🇺🇸 Rob DiPalma

Pro Tour – Yokohama (20–22 April 2007)
Frenchman Guillaume Wafo-Tapa won the second Pro Tour of the year, emerging from a Top eight in which every other contestant has at least twice appeared in a PT final eight. Masashi Oiso became only the fifth player to reach the quarter finals more than five times, Portugal's Paulo Carvalho put up his second top eight in three events, and Raphaël Lévy continued his hot streak with his first Pro Tour top eight since 1999.

Tournament data
Prize pool: $240,245 Players: 387 Format: Time Spiral Block Constructed Head Judge: Sheldon Menery

Grands Prix – Stockholm, Columbus, Strasbourg, Montreal

 * GP Stockholm (5–6 May)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 713
 * 1) 🇷🇺 Nicolay Potovin
 * 2) 🇩🇪 André Müller
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Kenji Tsumura
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Oliver Oks
 * 5) Bas Postema
 * 6) 🇳🇴 Thomas Refsdal
 * 7) 🇩🇪 Klaus Jöns
 * 8) 🇸🇪 Samuel Korsell


 * GP Columbus (19–20 May)
 * Format: Legacy
 * Attendance: 883
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Steve Sadin
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Owen Turtenwald
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Bill Stark
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Max Tietze
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Gadiel Szleifer
 * 6) 🇺🇸 Paul Nicolo
 * 7) 🇨🇦 Ryan Trepanier
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Michael Belfatto


 * GP Strasbourg (19–20 May)
 * Format: Block Constructed
 * Attendance: 1155
 * 1) 🇯🇵 Tomoharu Saitou
 * 2) 🇩🇪 Raul Porojan
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Shouta Yasooka
 * 4) 🇩🇪 Florian Pils
 * 5) 🇨🇭 Christoph Huber
 * 6) 🇩🇪 Klaus Jöns
 * 7) 🇨🇿 Petr Martinek
 * 8) 🇦🇹 Stefan Heigerer


 * GP Montreal (23–24 June)
 * Format: Block Constructed
 * Attendance: 739
 * 1) 🇧🇷 Celso Zampere Jr.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Paul Cheon
 * 3) 🇫🇷 Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Kenji Tsumura
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Gabriel Schwarz
 * 6) 🇯🇵 Koutarou Ootsuka
 * 7) 🇺🇸 Jason Imperiale
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Shouta Yasooka

Pro Tour – San Diego (29 June – 1 July 2007)
Pro Tour San Diego was the inaugural and as yet only event for the Two-Headed Giant format at the Pro Tour level. Chris Lachmann and Jacob van Lunen won the tournament, both in their first Pro Tour, playing an innovative sliver strategy. They won the elimination bracket in a combined nine turns making it the shortest semi-final and final ever.

Tournament data
Prize pool: $240,500 Players: 390 (195 teams) Format: Two-Headed Giant Booster Draft (Time Spiral-Planar Chaos-Future Sight) Head Judge: Toby Elliott

Grand Prixs – San Francisco, Florence

 * GP San Francisco (25–26 August)
 * Format: Block Constructed
 * Attendance: 672
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Luis Scott-Vargas
 * 2) 🇺🇸 Jonathan Stocks
 * 3) 🇧🇷 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Brett Blackmann
 * 5) 🇺🇸 David Irvine
 * 6) 🇺🇸 Andrew Walden
 * 7) 🇺🇸 Zack Smith
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Paul Cheon


 * GP Florence (8–9 September)
 * Format: Block Constructed
 * Attendance: 1082
 * 1) 🇯🇵 Masami Kaneko
 * 2) André Coimbra
 * 3) 🇮🇹 Marco Cammilluzzi
 * 4) 🇮🇹 Mido Kagawa
 * 5) 🇦🇹 Armin Birner
 * 6) Manuel Bucher
 * 7) Rasmus Sibast
 * 8) 🇦🇹 Ronald Guetl

Pro Tour – Valencia (12–14 October 2007)
Pro Tour Valencia began with a bumpy start. The first day of play to be canceled due to flooding. On the other two days the schedule had to be altered somewhat, including additional rounds on Saturday and three rounds on Sunday before Top 8. In the end, Frenchman Remi Fortier defeated Germany's André Müller in the final, making Valencia the third consecutive extended Pro Tour to be won by a French player.

Tournament data
Prize pool: $240,245 Players: 424 Format: Extended Head Judge: Jaap Brouwer

Grand Prixs – Brisbane, Bangkok, Krakow, Kitakyuushuu, Daytona Beach

 * GP Brisbane (20–21 October)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 233
 * 1) 🇦🇺 Anatoli Lightfoot
 * 2) 🇦🇺 Shawn Rayson
 * 3) André Coimbra
 * 4) 🇳🇿 Hassan Kamel
 * 5) 🇦🇺 David Zhao
 * 6) 🇦🇺 Norman McPherson
 * 7) 🇦🇺 Andrew Eckermann
 * 8) 🇦🇺 Chris Ninnes


 * GP Bangkok (27–28 October)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 314
 * 1) 🇯🇵 Masahiko Morita
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Shingou Kurihara
 * 3) 🇸🇬 Yong Han Choo
 * 4) 🇸🇬 Kok Seng Ong
 * 5) 🇯🇵 Junya Iyanaga
 * 6) 🇯🇵 Koutarou Ootsuka
 * 7) 🇸🇬 Steven Tan
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Takuya Oosawa


 * GP Kraków (3–4 November)
 * Format: Standard
 * Attendance: 849
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Paul Cheon
 * 2) 🇫🇷 Amiel Tenenbaum
 * 3) 🇦🇹 Armin Birner
 * 4) 🇫🇷 Olivier Ruel
 * 5) 🇸🇰 Robert Jacko
 * 6) 🇮🇹 David Besso
 * 7) 🇫🇷 Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
 * 8) 🇸🇰 Matej Zatlkaj


 * GP Kitakyuushuu (10–11 November)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 354
 * 1) 🇯🇵 Junya Iyanaga
 * 2) 🇯🇵 Shouta Yasooka
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Akira Asahara
 * 4) 🇫🇷 Olivier Ruel
 * 5) 🇯🇵 Kazuya Hirabayashi
 * 6) 🇰🇷 Jun Young Park
 * 7) 🇯🇵 Kenji Tsumura
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Chih-Chun Tsai


 * GP Daytona Beach (17–18 November)
 * Format: Limited
 * Attendance: 636
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Seth Manfield
 * 2) 🇧🇷 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
 * 3) 🇺🇸 Tillman Bragg
 * 4) 🇺🇸 Tanon Grace
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Gabe Walls
 * 6) 🇺🇸 Steven Wolansky
 * 7) 🇺🇸 Kyle Miller
 * 8) 🇺🇸 Alex Lieberman

2007 World Championships – New York City (6–9 December 2007)
The World Championships began with the induction of the third class into the hall of fame. The inductees were Kai Budde, Zvi Mowshowitz, Tsuyoshi Fujita, Nicolai Herzog, and Randy Buehler. In the individual competition Uri Peleg became the first Israeli, not only to reach the top eight, but also to win a Pro Tour. For Mori it was his third consecutive Worlds Top 8 appearance. In the team competition, the Swiss defeated the Austrian team in the finals

Tournament data
Prize pool: $215,600 (individual) + $192,200 (national teams) Players: 386 Formats: Standard, Booster Draft (Lorwyn), Legacy Head Judge: Mike Guptil

National team competition

 * 1)  Switzerland (Nico Bohny, Manuel Bucher, Raphael Genari, Christoph Huber)
 * 2) 🇦🇹 Austria (Thomas Preyer, Stefan Stradner, David Reitbauer, Helmut Summersberger)

Pro Player of the year final standings
After the World Championship Tomoharu Saitou was awarded the Pro Player of the year title.

Performance by country
Japan players dominated the season, making 16 Top 8 appearances although they had only about half as many players on the Pro Tour as the United States, which had the secondmost Top 8 appearances at 9. Both countries generated 21 level 4+ pro players in this season. For the Netherlands despite having generated 7 level 4+ pro players in the season success on the Pro Tour was almost elusive with a single 8th place being their only Top 8 appearance.

T8 = Number of players from that country appearing in a Pro Tour Top 8; Q* = Number of players from that country participating in Pro Tours (PT San Diego is missing as no country breakdown is available for that event); GT = Gravy Trainers (aka players with a Pro Players Club level of 4 or more) from that country generated in the 2007 season; Best Player (PPts) = Player with the most Pro Points from that country, Pro Points of that player in brackets.