| Season: | 2012 Pro Tour season |
| Ppoty: |  Yuuya Watanabe |
| Roty: |  Alexander Hayne |
| Pts: | 2 / 4 |
| Gps: | 16 / 26 |
| Start: | 13 June 2011 / 7 January 2012 |
| End: | 13 May 2012 |
| Hof: | n/a |
| Prevseason: | 2011 |
| Nextseason: | 2012–13 |
The 2012 Pro Tour season is the seventeenth season of the . Due to major changes in the Pro Tour systems the 2012 season was retroactively made to overlap with the 2011 season. Originally the 2012 season was supposed to begin on 7 January 2012 with Grand Prix Austin, but retroactively the events from after Pro Tour Nagoya on 10–12 June 2011 were made to count towards the 2012 season as well as the 2011 season. The major changes included a shift of the season. Instead of Pro Tour seasons aligning with the calendar year, beginning with the 2012–13 season Pro Tour seasons will be going from spring to spring. Also a major overhaul of the ratings system was conducted. A new bye policy based upon the new ratings system and a new invitation policy for the Pro Tour were introduced. Finally the number of Grand Prix tournaments was greatly increased.
Four Pro Tours will be held in the 2012 season. The amount of Grand Prix is still unknown as only Grand Prix tournaments through March have been announced yet.[1] The prize purse of future Pro Tours is also unknown, however Wizards of the Coast announced, that future Grand Prix tournaments will have a total prize pool of $10,000 to $40,000 instead of a flat $30,000 pool that was awarded at each Grand Prix in 2011.
Raphaël Lévy
Pat Cox Craig Edwards Eric Downing Jason Howden David Ochoa Austin Bursavich David Saylor Conley Woods Patrick Chapin
Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa Stephen Mann Gabriel Nieves Ben Friedman Javier Adorno David OchoaThe first Pro Tour in the 2012 season is the first to have a proper name. Previously Pro Tours were referred to by their location and/or date. The name Dark Ascension refers to the Magic set with the same name that is to be released a week prior to the Pro Tour.
Prize pool: $233,500
Format: Standard, Booster Draft
Players: 445
| Place | Player | Prize | Pro Points | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Kibler | $40,000 | 30 | 5th Final day, 2nd Pro Tour win | |
| 2 | Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa | $20,000 | 24 | 9th Final day | |
| 3 | Jon Finkel | $12,500 | 22 | 13th Final day | |
| 4 | Mamoru Nagai | $12,500 | 22 | ||
| 5 |  Denniz Rachid | $10,000 | 20 | ||
| 6 | Matthew Costa | $10,000 | 20 | ||
| 7 |  Lukas Blohon | $10,000 | 20 | ||
| 8 | Jelger Wiegersma | $10,000 | 20 | 4th Final day |
Masahiro Hiraga Ken Yukuhiro Kouji Takeishi Hiroaki Kitahara Katsuhiro Mori Hiroshi Ishida Yuuya Watanabe Takayuki Nagaoka Matthew Costa David Shiels Jackie Lee Matt Scott Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa Max Tietze Eric Meng Adam Snook Tom Martell Kenny Castor Dan Jordan Colin Chilbert Ando Ferguson Caleb Durward Pascal Maynard Adam Yurchick Paul Rietzl
Humberto Patarca Craig Wescoe
Daniel Hernandez Pascal Maynard Mario Flores Gustavo Nuñez Moreno Antonino De Rosa
Jose Velazquez
Alessandro Lippi Marco Cammilluzzi Alessandro Portaro Bronson Magnan Andrew Cuneo Luis Scott-Vargas Samuel Friedman Mary Jacobson Samuel Karls Matt Mercier Derrick Rutledge Simon Diaz
Kristof Benaets Tom Valkeneers
Grzegorz Kowalski Reid Duke Todd Anderson Kyle Babin Josh Utter-Leyton Caleb Durward Robbie Cordell Lissa Jensen Shuhei Nakamura
David Crewe Geoff Zhao Oliver Oks Simon Harnden Thomas Rafferty Daniel Unwin Jeremy Neeman Hao Wu Alexandre Darras Mario Pascoli Joel Larsson Marijn Lybaert Ciro Bonaventura David Garcia Copete Marco Frantuma Martin Juza Robert Smith Iain Bartolomei Jason Huang James Nguyen Andrejs Prost Paul Rietzl Henry Romero Owen Turtenwald Yuuya Watanabe
Xin Sui
Sutti Lee Chao Lu Sukhum Kiwanont
Kuo Tzu-Ching
Kingston Tong King Yim
Jason Yap Shahar Shenhar Michael Peterson Tom Martell James Cooper Michael Hetrick Bryan Olvera David Gleicher Marcel Angelo ZafraPrize pool: $233,500
Format: Block Constructed, Booster Draft
Players: 379
| Place | Player | Prize | Pro Points | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexander Hayne | $40,000 | 30 | ||
| 2 |  Gaudenis Vidugiris | $20,000 | 24 | 2nd final day | |
| 3 | Joshua Cho | $12,500 | 22 | Pro Tour debut | |
| 4 | Ken Yukuhiro | $12,500 | 22 | ||
| 5 | Jon Finkel | $10,000 | 20 | 14th final day | |
| 6 | Denniz Rachid | $10,000 | 20 | 2nd final day | |
| 7 |  Thomas Holzinger | $10,000 | 20 | ||
| 8 | Naoki Shimizu | $10,000 | 20 | 2nd final day |
The following sixteen players received an invitation to the 2012 Players Championship due to their performance in the 2012 season.
| Player | Qualified due to | |
|---|---|---|
| Owen Turtenwald | 2011 Player of the year | |
| Jun'ya Iyanaga | 2011 World Champion | |
| Reid Duke | 2011 Magic Online Champion | |
| Samuele Estratti | Pro Tour Philadelphia winner | |
| Brian Kibler | Pro Tour Dark Ascension winner | |
| Alexander Hayne | Pro Tour Avacyn Restored winner | |
| Josh Utter-Leyton | Pro Point leader North America | |
| Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa | Pro Point leader Latin America | |
| Martin Juza | Pro Point leader Europe | |
| Yuuya Watanabe | Pro Point leader Japan | |
| Kuo Tzu-Ching | Pro Point leader APAC region | |
| Jon Finkel | Most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified | |
| Luis Scott-Vargas | 2nd most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified | |
| Shouta Yasooka | 3rd most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified | |
| David Ochoa | 4th most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified | |
| Shuhei Nakamura | 5th most Pro Points of otherwise unqualified |