It was a fantastic Top 8 featuring two different $10K Champions (one of whom has also made the Top 8 of a Pro Circuit event), the top ranked Constructed player in the world, seven different deck archetypes, and a host of fresh new faces hoping to make a name for themselves by dispatching the veterans.

Robert Leander had to get past John Rich's pimped out Curve Sentinels deck—the only deck that put two players through to the Top 8—and Robert took the match in three hard-fought games. The semifinals was a clash of Vs. System Titans, with two $10K winners playing their trademark decks. Leander made short work of Matt Boccio and his New Brotherhood deck and advanced to the finals.

He met up with Roy St. Clair, a former Yu-Gi-Oh! Wolrd Championship Top 8 competitor, and his worst possible matchup, Cosmic Cops (although St. Clair calls his 64 card build Fatman). The match went to three games and featured incredibly tense chains of effects and complex card interactions—Starbucks doesn't have a chain as big as some of the ones we saw in this match.

After almost three grueling hours and close to thirty total turns, Robert Leander cemented his reputation as the best player in the Vs. System. Teen Titans has now won him $13,000 over the course of his career. It would be shocking to see him playing anything else in Vegas on February 5th . . . but you can never be sure. Check back in a couple of weeks for another weekend of constructed action.

Also check back tomorrow night, as we will be adding a metagame breakdown and some of the more interesting deck lists from outside of the Top 8.