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Year	Zak Dolan	Milwaukee, WI Wisconsin Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is... , USA
1995	Alexander Blumke	Seattle, WA, USA
1996	Tom Chanpheng	Seattle, WA, USA
1997	Jakub Slemr	Seattle, WA, USA
1998	Brian Selden Brian Selden Brian Selden was the winner of the 1998 Magic: The Gathering World Championship.His strategy in the tournament was to use two cards, called Survival of the Fittest and Recurring Nightmare repeatedly...	Seattle, WA, USA
1999	Kai Budde Kai Budde Kai Budde , is a professional Magic: The Gathering player, who holds the records for earnings, Pro Tour victories and lifetime Pro Points. His performances earned him the nicknames "The Juggernaut" and "King of the Grand Prix"...	Yokohama Yokohama is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu... , Japan
2000	Jon Finkel Jon Finkel Jon Finkel is an American Magic: The Gathering and poker player. In the year 2000, he became the world champion of Magic, as well as being on the team that became the team world champion.-Career:...	Brussels Brussels Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union... , Belgium
2001	Tom van de Logt	Toronto, Canada
2002	Carlos Romão Carlos Romão Carlos Eduardo Romão is a Brazilian Magic: The Gathering player. He is best known for his win at the 2002 World Championships. Along with Diego Ostrovich, he is widely regarded as the first South American to achieve success on the Pro Tour, and was the first South American to win a Pro...	Sydney, Australia
2003	Daniel Zink	Berlin, Germany
2004	Julien Nuijten	San Francisco, CA California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area... , USA
2005	Katsuhiro Mori Katsuhiro Mori is Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is the most successful player in the individual portion of World Championships, winning one tournament and making the top eight of two others.-Career:...	Yokohama Yokohama is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu... , Japan
2006	Makihito Mihara Makihito Mihara is Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. Best known for winning the 2006 World Championship, Mihara's resume includes two more Pro Tour top eights, and three Grand Prix top eights including a win.- Career :Mihara's Pro Tour career began at Pro Tour Venice in 2003...	Paris, France
2007	Uri Peleg	New York City, NY New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east... , USA
2008	Antti Malin Antti Malin Antti Malin is a Finnish player of fantasy card-game Magic: The Gathering. Malin won the World Championship of the game in December 2008 in Memphis, United States. He is from the capital of Finland, Helsinki....	Memphis Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers.... , TN Tennessee Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area... , USA
2009	André Coimbra André Coimbra André Coimbra is a professional Magic: The Gathering and poker player from Coimbra, Portugal. He is perhaps best known for winning the Magic: The Gathering 2009 World Championship.-Accomplishments:-Decks:...	Rome, Italy
2010	Guillaume Matignon Guillaume Matignon Guillaume Matignon is a professional trading card game player from Bordeaux, France. He has earned numerous accolades during his career including the World of Warcraft TCG 2007 World Championship and the Magic: The Gathering 2010 World Championship....	Chiba Chiba, Chiba is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is located approximately 40 km east of the center of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. Chiba City became a government designated city in 1992. Its population as of 2008 is approximately 960,000.... , Japan
2011	Jun'ya Iyanaga	San Francisco, CA California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area... , USA

The Magic: The Gathering World Championships (Worlds) have been held annually since 1994. It is the most important tournament in the game of Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering , also known as Magic, is the first collectible trading card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011...

, offering to the winner a cash prize of $45,000. Originally open to all competitors, Worlds is now an invitation-only event and the last Pro Tour of each season. The invitees are mostly top finishers from the National championships, the top-ranked players of the DCI and high-level pro players.

After the first five World Championships were all held in the United States, Worlds were held in various places outside the US, most of which were either in Europe or Japan. Besides the main event Worlds is always a huge gathering of Magic players, who come to watch the pros and compete in side events.

History

The first World Championship was held in 1994 at the Gen Con

Gen Con

Gen Con is one of the largest and most prominent annual gaming conventions in North America. It features traditional pen-and-paper, board, and card-style games, including role-playing games, miniatures wargames, board games, live action role-playing games, collectible card games, non-collectible...

 fair in Milwaukee. Despite the name the tournament varied considerably from later Worlds. The tournament was open to all competitors, its mode was single-elimination, and it featured just one format, Type I (now Vintage). Starting with the 1995 Worlds all subsequent Worlds were open to invited players only.

With the introduction of the Pro Tour in 1996 the World Championship became the final stop of each Pro Tour season. As the final event to award Pro points every season, Worlds also since hosts the Pro Player of the Year award ceremony. Traditionally held in August, Worlds was moved to the end of the year between 2004 and 2006, when the Pro Tour season was adjusted to the calendar year. Since the inception of the Hall of Fame

Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame

The Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame was started in 2005 to honor the most successful Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour players. The first inductions came on the tenth anniversary of the first Pro Tour event, and new Hall of Famers will be determined annually...

 in 2005 Worlds also hosts the induction ceremony of each year's class.

Mode

Most Worlds have been held over five days, hosting an individual and a team competition. The individual competition consists of three disciplines in which every participant has to compete. Traditionally that has been six rounds of Standard played on the first day, two Drafts of three rounds each on the second, and six rounds of some previously determined constructed format on the third day. The fourth day hosted the national team competition. On the final day the best eight players from the individual competition returned to determine the World Champion in three rounds of single elimination.

Beginning with the 2007 Worlds the tournament has been shortened to four days. The schedule has been altered to further accommodate all parts of the competition.

Participants

The following players are eligible to play in the World Championship:

• Current World Champion
• 2nd to 8th place finishers from the previous World Championship.
• Current Pro Player of the Year.
• For countries that hold an invitation-only National Championship, the three members of each national team and that team’s designated alternate.
• For countries that hold an open National Championship, the winner of that National Championship.
• Players with Pro Tour Players Club level 4 or higher. (This includes all members of the Hall of Fame
  Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame
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• Players with Pro Tour Players Club level 3 that have not yet used their Players Club invitation
• Top 25 DCI Total-ranked players from the APAC region.
• Top 25 DCI Total-ranked players from Japan.
• Top 50 DCI Total-ranked players from the Europe region.
• Top 50 DCI Total-ranked players from the Latin America region.
• Top 50 DCI Total-ranked players from the North America region.
• Players invited to the Magic Online Championship held the same week (New in 2009).

(Compare Magic Premier Event Invitation Policy). In recent years, the tournament location has alternated between North America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe.

On 2nd November 2011, Wizards of the Coast announced a major change to the structure of the World Championship. It was announced that as of 2012, the World Championship will move from being a Pro Tour-sized event to an exclusive sixteen-person tournament. These sixteen players will be:

• Current World Champion
• Current Magic Online Champion
• Winners of the previous three Pro Tours
  Pro Tour (Magic: The Gathering)
  The Pro Tour is the highest form of competitive play for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game. It consists of a series of payout tournaments held throughout the world, each requiring an invitation to participate. Every PT awards a total of $230,000 in cash prizes, with $40,000 going to...
  
  
• The top-ranked player from each geo-region (Asia Pacific, Europe, Japan, Latin America, and North America) in the Planeswalker Points Yearly Professional Total who are not yet invited based on the above criteria
• The top-ranked players in the worldwide Planeswalker Points Yearly Professional Total who are not yet invited based on the above criteria sufficient to bring the total number of invited players to the World Championship to sixteen

1994 World championship

Zak Dolan – 1994 World Championship Angel Stasis
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
1 Black Vise 1 Howling Mine 1 Icy Manipulator 1 Ivory Tower 2 Meekstone 1 Winter Orb 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Clone 1 Control Magic 1 Mana Drain 2 Old Man of the Sea 1 Recall 1 Siren's Call 2 Stasis 1 Time Elemental 1 Timetwister 1 Time Walk 1 Vesuvan Doppelganger 1 Birds of Paradise 1 Ley Druid 1 Regrowth 1 Armageddon 2 Disenchant 1 Kismet 4 Serra Angel 4 Swords to Plowshares 1 Wrath of God	1 Library of Alexandria 4 Savannah 2 Strip Mine 4 Tropical Island 4 Tundra 1 Black Lotus Power Nine The term Power Nine refers to a set of nine specific cards in the game of Magic: The Gathering. These cards were only printed early in the game's history and consist of Black Lotus, Ancestral Recall, Time Walk, Mox Sapphire, Mox Jet, Mox Ruby, Mox Emerald, Mox Pearl, and Timetwister.The Power Nine... 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Sapphire 1 Mox Jet 1 Sol Ring 1 Mana Vault	1 Chaos Orb 1 CoP Red 1 Copy Artifact 1 Diamond Valley 1 In the Eye of Chaos 1 Floral Spuzzem 2 Karma 1 Magical Hack 1 Powersink 1 Presence of the Master 1 Reverse Damage 1 Sleight of Mind 1 Kismet 1 Winter Blast

The first Magic World Championship was held at the Gen Con

Gen Con

Gen Con is one of the largest and most prominent annual gaming conventions in North America. It features traditional pen-and-paper, board, and card-style games, including role-playing games, miniatures wargames, board games, live action role-playing games, collectible card games, non-collectible...

 in Milwaukee, USA on 19–21 August 1994. It is the only Worlds tournament which was held in the Vintage format, then known as Type I. The 1994 Worlds is also the only Worlds which was not an invite-only tournament, instead everybody could register, but the tournament was capped at 512 participants. After two days of single elimination play the final four players featured Bertrand Lestrée, who defeated Cyrille DeFoucaud 2–0 in his semi-final, and Zak Dolan, who defeated Dominic Symens 2–0 in the other semi-final. In the final Dolan defeated Lestrée 2–1.

Final standings

1.   Zak Dolan
2.   Bertrand Lestrée
3.   Dominic Symens
4.   Cyrille de Foucaud

1995 World championship

Alexander Blumke – 1995 World Championship Rack Control
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
1 Disrupting Scepter 2 Icy Manipulator 3 The Rack 2 Zuran Orb 3 Dance of the Dead 1 Dark Banishing 4 Dark Ritual 4 Hymn to Tourach 3 Hypnotic Specter 1 Mind Twist 1 Pestilence 1 Royal Assassin 2 Sengir Vampire 2 Terror 1 Power Sink 1 Balance 3 Disenchant 1 Land Tax 1 Spirit Link 1 Swords to Plowshares	3 Adarkar Wastes 1 Bottomless Vault 4 Mishra's Factory 3 Plains 1 Strip Mine 12 Swamp 1 Underground River	1 CoP Artifact 1 CoP Black 2 CoP Red 1 Land Tax 1 Prismatic Ward 4 Gloom 2 Stromgald Cabal 1 Blue Elemental Blast 1 Magical Hack 1 Sleight of Mind

The second Magic Worlds Championship was held on 4–6 August at the Red Lion Inn in Seattle, USA. 71 players from 19 countries participated. The tournament featured five rounds of Sealed Deck on the first day and five rounds of Standard, then known as Type II, on the second day. Points were awarded for each individual game instead of completed matches as today. The top 8 on Sunday were played with the Standard decks from the day before. In the final Alexander Blumke defeated Mark Hernandez 3–2.

Final standings

1.   Alexander Blumke


2.   Marc Hernandez


3.   Mark Justice
   Mark Justice
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3.   Henry Stern


5.   Ivan Curina


5.   Andrea Redi


5.   Henri Schildt


5.   Mu Luen Wang

Team champion

1.   United States – Mark Justice
   Mark Justice
   Mark Justice is a former Magic: The Gathering pro player. He is by many considered the best player of the game in his time. Justice was the first Magic: The Gathering US National Champion in 1995...
   
   , Henry Stern, Peter Leiher, Michael Long
   Michael Long
   Michael Long is a former Australian rules footballer of Aboriginal descent and spokesperson for indigenous rights and against racism in sport.-Early career:...
   
   
2.   Finland
   Finland
   Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
   
    – Rosendahl, Henry Schildt, Kimmo Hovi, Punakallio
3.   Australia – Shandley, Hubson, Russell, Liew
4.   France – Marc Hernandez, Moulin, Woirgard, Lebas

1996 World championship

Tom Chanpheng – 1996 World Championship White Weenie
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
1 Lodestone Bauble 2 Phyrexian War Beast 1 Zuran Orb 1 Sleight of Mind 1 Armageddon 1 Balance 4 Disenchant 1 Land Tax 4 Order of Leitbur 4 Order of the White Shield 1 Reinforcements 1 Reprisal 4 Savannah Lions 2 Serra Angel 4 Swords to Plowshares 4 White Knight	1 Kjeldoran Outpost 4 Mishra's Factory 15 Plains 4 Strip Mine	2 Arenson's Aura 1 Black Vise 4 Divine Offering 1 Energy Storm 1 Exile 1 Reprisal 1 Spirit Link 1 Sleight of Mind 2 Serrated Arrows 1 Kjeldoran Outpost

The third Magic World Championship was held at the Wizards

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 headquarters in Seattle, USA. It was the first Worlds also to be a Pro Tour. 125 players competed in the event. The tournament featured a Booster Draft, a Standard (Type II), and a Legacy (Type 1.5) portion.

Final standings

1.   Tom Chanpheng


2.   Mark Justice
   Mark Justice
   Mark Justice is a former Magic: The Gathering pro player. He is by many considered the best player of the game in his time. Justice was the first Magic: The Gathering US National Champion in 1995...
   
   


3.   Henry Stern


3.   Olle Råde
   Olle Råde
   Olle Råde is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Sweden. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class in 2005. Olle was also the first player awarded with the coveted Player of the Year award and was the first non-American player to...
   
   


5.   Matt Place


5.   Scott Johns
   Scott Johns
   Scott Johns is the former editor of , and a former Magic: The Gathering Pro player. During his playing career he reached the top eight of a Pro Tour five times including his very first Pro Tour, and won Pro Tour New York 2000 with Gary Wise and Mike Turian as a part of Potato...
   
   


5.   Eric Tam


5.   Tommi Hovi
   Tommi Hovi
   Tommi Hovi is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player from Finland. He was inducted into the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in the inaugural class in 2005...
   
   

Note that Chanpeng's winning deck included a , but no sources of blue mana. This stems from an error in his submitted decklist. He was forced to use plains in lieu of the 4 he had planned to include.

Tom's victory was commemorated with a unique card, named 1996 World Champion.

Team final

1.   United States – Dennis Bentley, George Baxter, Mike Long
   Mike Long
   Michael Long is a former professional Magic: The Gathering card game player. He was a highly influential and controversial Pro Tour mainstay for a number of years in the late 1990s. Despite making four Pro Tour top eights and winning Pro Tour Paris in 1997, Long's legacy is the subject of much...
   
   , Matt Place
2.   Czech Republic
   Czech Republic
   The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
   
    – David Korejtko, Jakub Slemr, Ondrej Baudys, Lucas Kocourek

Pro Tour Player of the Year

1.   Olle Råde
   Olle Råde
   Olle Råde is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Sweden. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class in 2005. Olle was also the first player awarded with the coveted Player of the Year award and was the first non-American player to...
   
   
2.   Shawn "Hammer" Regnier
3.   Mark Justice
   Mark Justice
   Mark Justice is a former Magic: The Gathering pro player. He is by many considered the best player of the game in his time. Justice was the first Magic: The Gathering US National Champion in 1995...
   
   

1997 World championship

Jakub Slemr – 1997 World Championship
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
4 Black Knight 4 Choking Sands 4 Contagion 4 Fallen Askari 4 Knight of Stromgald 1 Necratog 4 Nekrataal 2 Shadow Guildmage 4 Man-o-War 2 Uktabi Orangutan 2 Earthquake 4 Incinerate	3 City of Brass 3 Gemstone Mine 2 Sulfurous Springs 10 Swamp 1 Underground River 3 Undiscovered Paradise	2 Disenchant 1 Exile 1 Honorable Passage 3 Pyroblast 2 Dystopia 2 Ebony Charm 2 Forsaken Wastes 2 Hydroblast

The fourth Magic World Championship was held on 13–17 August 1997 in Seattle, USA. 153 players competed in the event. It was the first Magic tournament to be filmed by ESPN2

ESPN2

ESPN2 is an American sports cable television network owned by ESPN. The channel debuted on October 1, 1993.Originally nicknamed "the deuce," ESPN2 was initially branded as a network for a younger generation of sports fans featuring edgier graphics as well as extreme sports like motocross,...

. The competition featured Standard, Mirage

Mirage (Magic: The Gathering)

Mirage was the fifteenth Magic: The Gathering set and ninth expert level set, released in October 1996. This expansion began the first official block set with one large expansion being followed by two smaller expansions all tied together through card mechanics and setting. This expansion also...

-Visions

Visions (Magic: The Gathering)

Visions was the sixteenth Magic: The Gathering set and tenth expert level set, released in February 1997. This expansion continued the Mirage block by using the same setting and mechanics introduced in Mirage. The expansion symbol for Visions is a V-shaped symbol, which is the "triangle of war"...

-Weatherlight Rochester Draft, and Extended.

Final standings

1.   Jakub Slemr


2.   Janosch Kühn


3.   Paul McCabe
   Paul McCabe (Magic: The Gathering player)
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3.   Svend Geertsen


5.   Gabriel Tsang


5.   Nikolai Weibull


5.   Nate Clark


5.   John Chinnock

Team final

1.   Canada – Gary Krakower, Michael Donais, Ed Ito, Gabriel Tsang
2.   Sweden
   Sweden
   Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
   
    – Nikolai Weibull, Matthias Jorstedt, Marcus Angelin, Johan Cedercrantz

Pro Tour Player of the Year

1.   Paul McCabe
   Paul McCabe (Magic: The Gathering player)
   Paul McCabe is a Canadian Magic: The Gathering player. He is known for his success in the 1996-97 Pro Tour season. During this season, McCabe reached the top eight of two Pro Tours, and won the Player of the Year title...
   
   
2.   Terry Borer

1998 World championship

Brian Selden – 1998 World Championship RecSur
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
2 Scroll Rack 2 Lobotomy 2 Nekrataal 4 Recurring Nightmare 1 Spirit of the Night 1 Thrull Surgeon 1 Man-o-War 1 Tradewind Rider 4 Birds of Paradise 2 Spike Feeder 1 Spike Weaver 4 Survival of the Fittest 2 Uktabi Orangutan 1 Verdant Force 4 Wall of Blossoms 2 Wall of Roots 2 Firestorm 1 Orcish Settlers 1 Cloudchaser Eagle	3 City of Brass 8 Forest 1 Gemstone Mine 2 Karplusan Forest 2 Reflecting Pool 1 Swamp 2 Underground River 2 Undiscovered Paradise 1 Volrath's Stronghold	1 Staunch Defenders 3 Emerald Charm 1 Hall of Gemstone 2 Pyroblast 4 Boil 2 Dread of Night 2 Phyrexian Furnace

The fifth Magic World Championship was held on 12–16 August 1998 in Seattle, USA. This tournament featured a Tempest

Tempest (Magic: The Gathering)

Tempest was the 20th Magic: The Gathering set and twelfth expert level set, and the first set in the Rath Block, released in October 1997. The release of Tempest represented a large jump in the power level of the card set, compared to the previous Mirage block. Many cards from Tempest instantly...

-Stronghold

Stronghold (Magic: The Gathering)

Stronghold was the 21st Magic: The Gathering set and thirteenth expert level set, and the second set in the Rath Block, released in March 1998. The block includes Tempest and Exodus. Stronghold contains 143 cards...

-Exodus

Exodus (Magic: The Gathering)

Exodus was the 22nd Magic: The Gathering set, fourteenth expert level set, and the third and final set in the Rath Block, released on 15 June 1998. Its expansion symbol is a bridge...

Booster Draft, Standard, and Tempest Block Constructed.

203 players competed in the event. The USA dominated the top 8, taking seven of the eight slots. The USA also won the team competition.

Finishing order

1.   Brian Selden
   Brian Selden
   Brian Selden was the winner of the 1998 Magic: The Gathering World Championship.His strategy in the tournament was to use two cards, called Survival of the Fittest and Recurring Nightmare repeatedly...
   
   
2.   Ben Rubin
3.   Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel is an American Magic: The Gathering and poker player. In the year 2000, he became the world champion of Magic, as well as being on the team that became the team world champion.-Career:...
   
   
4.   Raphaël Lévy
   Raphaël Lévy
   Raphaël Lévy is a professional Magic: The Gathering player. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in November 2006. He is the first player to have been inducted while active on the Pro Tour. He is one of only four players to have won Grand Prix on three different...
   
   
5.   Scott Johns
   Scott Johns
   Scott Johns is the former editor of , and a former Magic: The Gathering Pro player. During his playing career he reached the top eight of a Pro Tour five times including his very first Pro Tour, and won Pro Tour New York 2000 with Gary Wise and Mike Turian as a part of Potato...
   
   
6.   Chris Pikula
   Chris Pikula
   Chris Pikula is an American Magic: The Gathering player. Pikula started playing on the Pro Tour at the very first Pro Tour in New York, 1996. He attended the other two Pro Tour events that season, too, failing to attend only the World Championship. Success came at the beginning of the second...
   
   
7.   Brian Hacker
8.   Alan Comer
   Alan Comer
   Alan Comer is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player. He was elected to the Magic Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class in 2005. He was the only member of the class never to have won a Pro Tour...
   
   

Team final

1.   United States – Matt Linde, Mike Long
   Mike Long
   Michael Long is a former professional Magic: The Gathering card game player. He was a highly influential and controversial Pro Tour mainstay for a number of years in the late 1990s. Despite making four Pro Tour top eights and winning Pro Tour Paris in 1997, Long's legacy is the subject of much...
   
   , Bryce Currence, Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel is an American Magic: The Gathering and poker player. In the year 2000, he became the world champion of Magic, as well as being on the team that became the team world champion.-Career:...
   
   
2.   France – Pierre Malherbaud, Manuel Bevand, Marc Hernandez, Fabien Demazeau

Pro Tour Player of the Year

1.   Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel is an American Magic: The Gathering and poker player. In the year 2000, he became the world champion of Magic, as well as being on the team that became the team world champion.-Career:...
   
   
2.   Randy Buehler
   Randy Buehler
   Randolph E. Buehler, Jr. was the Vice President of Digital Gaming at Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., as well as the commentator for the Magic Pro Tour...
   
   
3.   Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz
   Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz
   Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz is an American Magic: The Gathering player. At the height of his career in the late 1990s, he was considered one of the best players. He is well known as a friend and teammate to Jon Finkel.-Career:...
   
   

Rookie of the Year

1.   Randy Buehler
   Randy Buehler
   Randolph E. Buehler, Jr. was the Vice President of Digital Gaming at Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., as well as the commentator for the Magic Pro Tour...
   
   

1999 World championship

Kai Budde – 1999 World Championship Wildfire
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
4 Cursed Scroll 4 Fire Diamond 4 Grim Monolith 3 Masticore 1 Karn, Silver Golem 2 Mishra's Helix 4 Temporal Aperture 4 Thran Dynamo 4 Voltaic Key 2 Worn Powerstone 4 Covetous Dragon 4 Wildfire	3 Ancient Tomb 4 City of Traitors 13 Mountain	2 Boil 3 Earthquake 2 Rack and Ruin 2 Shattering Pulse 4 Spellshock 1 Mishra's Helix 1 Phyrexian Processor

The sixth Magic World Championship was held on 4–8 August 1999 in Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

, Japan. This tournament featured an Urza's Saga

Urza's Saga

Urza's Saga is the 15th expert level set, a 350-card Magic: The Gathering expansion set that debuted in October 1998. Some employees of Wizards consider it one of the most powerful sets ever released, with many cards now banned in tournament formats...

-Urza's Legacy

Urza's Legacy

Urza's Legacy is a Magic: The Gathering set, second in the Urza Block. Urza's Legacy was released in February 1999.-Set history:This set is the first set to feature premium cards also known as foil cards, inserted randomly into boosters and taking the place of a card in the common slot.- Storyline...

-Urza's Destiny

Urza's Destiny

Urza's Destiny is a Magic: The Gathering set, third in the Urza Block. Urza's Destiny was released on June 23, 1999. It was released in digital form on Magic Online on April 13, 2011.- Storyline :...

Rochester Draft, Standard, and Extended.

208 players from 32 countries competed in the event. In the final Kai Budde

Kai Budde

Kai Budde , is a professional Magic: The Gathering player, who holds the records for earnings, Pro Tour victories and lifetime Pro Points. His performances earned him the nicknames "The Juggernaut" and "King of the Grand Prix"...

 defeated Mark Le Pine 3–0 in about 20 minutes, the quickest Pro Tour final ever. Budde's win was the first of his seven Pro Tour victories. By winning this title he also claimed the first of his four Pro Player of the Year titles.

Finishing order

1.   Kai Budde
   Kai Budde
   Kai Budde , is a professional Magic: The Gathering player, who holds the records for earnings, Pro Tour victories and lifetime Pro Points. His performances earned him the nicknames "The Juggernaut" and "King of the Grand Prix"...
   
   
2.   Mark Le Pine
3.   Raffaele Lo Moro
4.   Matt Linde
5.   Jakub Slemr
6.   Jamie Parke
7.   Gary Wise
   Gary Wise
   Gary Wise is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Canada. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in November 2006. He also wrote the "Wise Words" and "Limited Skills" articles....
   
   
8.   Nicolai Herzog
   Nicolai Herzog
   Nicolai Herzog is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Oslo, Norway. His greatest achievement was winning two consecutive Limited Pro Tours in 2004. Both featured draft formats in the Mirrodin-block...
   
   

Team final

1.   United States – Kyle Rose, John Hunka, Zvi Mowshowitz
   Zvi Mowshowitz
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   , Charles Kornblith
2.   Germany – Marco Blume
   Marco Blume
   Marco Blume is one of the most successful professional Magic: The Gathering players. He has won two Pro Tours and one Masters as a member of team Phoenix Foundation, his teammates being Kai Budde and Dirk Baberowski. He also won a German national championship individually in 1999.- Top 8...
   
   , Patrick Mello, David Brucker, Rosario Maij

Pro Tour Player of the Year

1.   Kai Budde
   Kai Budde
   Kai Budde , is a professional Magic: The Gathering player, who holds the records for earnings, Pro Tour victories and lifetime Pro Points. His performances earned him the nicknames "The Juggernaut" and "King of the Grand Prix"...
   
   
2.   Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel is an American Magic: The Gathering and poker player. In the year 2000, he became the world champion of Magic, as well as being on the team that became the team world champion.-Career:...
   
   
3.   Casey McCarrel

Rookie of the Year

1.   Dirk Baberowski
   Dirk Baberowski
   Dirk Baberowski is one of the most successful professional Magic: The Gathering players. He has won three Pro Tours, tying him in second place with Jon Finkel. Two of those victories were won at team Pro Tours with his teammates of Phoenix Foundation, Kai Budde and Marco Blume.In 2008, Barberowski...
   
   

2000 World championship

Jon Finkel – 2000 World Championship Tinker
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
1 Crumbling Sanctuary 4 Grim Monolith 4 Masticore 4 Metalworker 1 Mishra's Helix 1 Phyrexian Colossus 4 Phyrexian Processor 4 Tangle Wire 4 Thran Dynamo 4 Voltaic Key 4 Brainstorm 4 Tinker	4 Crystal Vein 9 Island 4 Rishadan Port 4 Saprazzan Skerry	4 Annul 4 Chill 4 Miscalculation 2 Rising Waters 1 Mishra's Helix

The seventh Magic World Championship was held in Brussels

Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

, Belgium on 2–6 August 2000. It was the first time the Worlds were held in Europe. The tournament featured a Mercadian Masques

Mercadian Masques

Mercadian Masques is the nineteenth Magic: The Gathering expansion and was released in October 1999 as the first set in the Masques block. It is notable for being the first set not protected by Wizards of the Coast's "Reprint Policy"...

-Nemesis

Nemesis (Magic: The Gathering)

Nemesis is the second set in the Mercadian Masques block of sets in the Magic: The Gathering game, along with the expansions Mercadian Masques and Prophecy. Its expansion symbol is an axe. The set consists of 143 cards and was released on February 14, 2000...

-Prophecy

Prophecy (Magic: The Gathering)

Prophecy is a Magic: The Gathering expansion set. It was the third set of the Masques block, along with the expansion Mercadian Masques and Nemesis. The Prophecy expansion consists of 143 cards. Its expansion symbol are three crystals...

Booster Draft, Mercadian Masques Block Constructed, and Standard.

273 players from 46 countries competed in the event. In the final Jon Finkel

Jon Finkel

Jon Finkel is an American Magic: The Gathering and poker player. In the year 2000, he became the world champion of Magic, as well as being on the team that became the team world champion.-Career:...

 defeated his friend, Bob Maher

Bob Maher

Robert Maher, Jr. , is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player. He picked up the Magic game after sustaining a football injury in high school, and has gone on to become one of the most celebrated players in the game's history, earning the nickname "The Great One".-Magic: The...

. Both played nearly identical decks with a difference of just one card.

Finishing order

1.   Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel is an American Magic: The Gathering and poker player. In the year 2000, he became the world champion of Magic, as well as being on the team that became the team world champion.-Career:...
   
   
2.   Bob Maher, Jr.
3.   Dominik Hothow
4.   Benedikt Klauser
5.   Tom van de Logt
6.   Helmut Summersberger
7.   Janosch Kühn
8.   Nicolas Labarre

Team final

1.   United States – Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel is an American Magic: The Gathering and poker player. In the year 2000, he became the world champion of Magic, as well as being on the team that became the team world champion.-Career:...
   
   , Chris Benafel, Frank Hernandez, Aaron Forsythe
2.   Canada – Ryan Fuller, Murray Evans, Gabriel Tsang, Sam Lau

Pro Tour Player of the Year

1.   Bob Maher, Jr.
2.   Darwin Kastle
   Darwin Kastle
   - Other accomplishments :* 2005 Hall of Fame inductee* Last player to have played all Pro Tours after 48 appearances from 1996 PT New York to 2004 PT Kobe- References :...
   
   
3.   Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel
   Jon Finkel is an American Magic: The Gathering and poker player. In the year 2000, he became the world champion of Magic, as well as being on the team that became the team world champion.-Career:...
   
   

Rookie of the Year

1.   Brian Davis

2001 World championship

Tom van de Logt – 2001 World Championship Machine Head
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
4 Plague Spitter 3 Phyrexian Scuta 3 Skizzik 2 Flametongue Kavu 2 Crypt Angel 4 Blazing Specter 4 Duress 4 Dark Ritual 4 Terminate 3 Vendetta 3 Urza's Rage	6 Swamp 6 Mountain 4 Rishadan Port 4 Urborg Volcano 4 Sulfurous Springs	4 Scoria Cat 3 Addle 2 Persecute 1 Pyroclasm 3 Phyrexian Arena 1 Flametongue Kavu 1 Crypt Angel

(Complete coverage)

The eighth World Championship was held from 8 to 12 August 2001 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre

Metro Toronto Convention Centre

Metro Toronto Convention Centre , located in Downtown Toronto, Ontario at 255 Front Street West, has of space. The convention centre was completed in October 1984 and is home to the 1330-seat John Bassett Theatre...

 in Toronto, Canada. The tournament featured Invasion

Invasion (Magic: The Gathering)

Invasion is the 21st expert level set, and the first set in the Invasion block of cards of Magic: The Gathering. The rest of the block is Planeshift and Apocalypse. It contains 350 cards.-Set History:...

-Planeshift

Planeshift

Planeshift may refer to:*Planeshift , an expansion set for Magic: The Gathering*PlaneShift , a free to play massively multiplayer online role playing game...

-Apocalypse

Apocalypse (Magic: The Gathering)

Apocalypse is the name of a Magic: The Gathering expansion set, released in June 2001. It is the third set of the Invasion Block.-Storyline:...

Rochester Draft, Standard, and Extended as individual formats and Invasion block team rochester as the team format.

296 players from 51 countries competed in the tournament. Tom van de Logt from the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 came out as the new world champion, garnering a prize of $35,000 for his victory (as well as another $1,000 for the success of the Dutch team he was part of). Other finalists included future World Series of Poker bracelet

World Series of Poker bracelet

The World Series of Poker bracelet is considered the most coveted non-monetary prize a poker player can win. Since 1976, a bracelet has been awarded to the winner of every event at the annual WSOP. Even if the victory occurred before 1976, WSOP championships are now counted as "bracelets". ...

 winner Alex Borteh

Alexander Borteh

Alex Borteh is a professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in a World Series of Poker event, the $3,000 Limit Hold'em event. Borteh has cashed in 4 WSOP events and made two final tables. In 2005, he finished in 3rd place in the $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout event...

 (2nd place), Antoine Ruel (3rd place), Andrea Santin (4th place), Mike Turian

Mike Turian

Michael Turian is a successful professional player of Magic: The Gathering. He won Pro Tour New York with Team Potato Nation. Turian also won two Grand Prixs. In 2008 Mike Turian was voted in the Hall of Fame. He was inducted during the World championship in Memphis.- Career :Mike Turian qualified...

 (5th place), Jan Tomcani (6th place), Tommi Hovi

Tommi Hovi

Tommi Hovi is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player from Finland. He was inducted into the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in the inaugural class in 2005...

 (7th place), and David Williams

David Williams (card player)

David Anthony Williams is a professional poker player and popular Magic: The Gathering player.-Personal life:Williams was born in Arlington, Texas. He briefly attended Princeton University before switching to study economics at Southern Methodist University...

 (disqualified). John Ormerod did not make the top 8 finishers, but was awarded 8th place after David Williams

David Williams (card player)

David Anthony Williams is a professional poker player and popular Magic: The Gathering player.-Personal life:Williams was born in Arlington, Texas. He briefly attended Princeton University before switching to study economics at Southern Methodist University...

 was disqualified for a marked deck. The team competition was won by the US team, which defeated Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 in the team final.

Finishing Order

1.   Tom van de Logt
2.   Alex Borteh
   Alexander Borteh
   Alex Borteh is a professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in a World Series of Poker event, the $3,000 Limit Hold'em event. Borteh has cashed in 4 WSOP events and made two final tables. In 2005, he finished in 3rd place in the $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout event...
   
   
3.   Antoine Ruel
   Antoine Ruel
   Antoine Ruel is a professional Magic: The Gathering player. He has reached the top eight at the Pro Tour four times, including a win in Los Angeles in 2005...
   
   
4.   Andrea Santin
5.   Mike Turian
   Mike Turian
   Michael Turian is a successful professional player of Magic: The Gathering. He won Pro Tour New York with Team Potato Nation. Turian also won two Grand Prixs. In 2008 Mike Turian was voted in the Hall of Fame. He was inducted during the World championship in Memphis.- Career :Mike Turian qualified...
   
   
6.   Jan Tomcani
7.   Tommi Hovi
   Tommi Hovi
   Tommi Hovi is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player from Finland. He was inducted into the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in the inaugural class in 2005...
   
   
8.   John Ormerod

Team final

1.   United States – Trevor Blackwell, Brian Hegstad, Eugene Harvey
   Eugene Harvey (Magic: The Gathering player)
   Eugene Harvey is an American Magic: The Gathering player. His major successes include four Pro Tour top eights, and five Grand Prix top eights. Harvey was part of the US national team that won the World Championship in 2001, which was Harvey's first Pro Tour. He also won the 2002 US National...
   
   
2.   Norway
   Norway
   Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
   
    – Nicolai Herzog
   Nicolai Herzog
   Nicolai Herzog is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Oslo, Norway. His greatest achievement was winning two consecutive Limited Pro Tours in 2004. Both featured draft formats in the Mirrodin-block...
   
   , Oyvind Odegaard, Jan Pieter Groenhof

Pro Tour Player of the Year

1.   Kai Budde
   Kai Budde
   Kai Budde , is a professional Magic: The Gathering player, who holds the records for earnings, Pro Tour victories and lifetime Pro Points. His performances earned him the nicknames "The Juggernaut" and "King of the Grand Prix"...
   
   
2.   Kamiel Cornelissen
   Kamiel Cornelissen
   Kamiel Cornelissen is a Dutch Magic: The Gathering player. Once a Pro Tour mainstay, he is now considered retired, despite playing the odd event. He is one of eighteen players with five or more Pro Tour top eights, including back to back second place finishes, and a win with teammates Jelger...
   
   
3.   Michael Pustilnik
   Michael Pustilnik
   -References:...
   
   

Rookie of the Year

1.   Katsuhiro Mori
   Katsuhiro Mori
   is Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is the most successful player in the individual portion of World Championships, winning one tournament and making the top eight of two others.-Career:...
   
   

2002 World championship

Carlos Romão Carlos Romão Carlos Eduardo Romão is a Brazilian Magic: The Gathering player. He is best known for his win at the 2002 World Championships. Along with Diego Ostrovich, he is widely regarded as the first South American to achieve success on the Pro Tour, and was the first South American to win a Pro...  – 2002 World Championship Psychatog
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
4 Nightscape Familiar 4 Psychatog 3 Chainers Edict 3 Circular Logic 4 Counterspell 3 Cunning Wish 3 Deep Analysis 3 Fact or Fiction 3 Memory Lapse 4 Repulse 2 Upheaval	10 Island 2 Cephalid Coliseum 1 Darkwater Catacombs 4 Salt Marsh 3 Swamp 4 Underground River	1 Coffin Purge 4 Duress 1 Fact or Fiction 1 Gainsay 3 Ghastly Demise 1 Hibernation 1 Mana Short 1 Recoil 1 Slay 1 Teferis Response

(Complete coverage)

The ninth World Championship was held from 14 to 18 August 2002 at Fox Studios

Fox Studios Australia

Fox Studios Australia is a major movie studio located in Sydney, Australia, occupying the site of the former Sydney Showground at Moore Park...

 in Sydney, Australia. The tournament featured Odyssey

Odyssey (Magic: The Gathering)

Odyssey is the 24th Magic: The Gathering expert-level expansion set. Released in September, 2001, Odyssey is the first set in the Odyssey Block. Its expansion symbol is a small image of the Mirari .-Storyline:...

-Torment

Torment (Magic: The Gathering)

Torment is the second set in the Odyssey Block for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. This expansion set, which focused on black, is unique in that it is the first set to focus on a single color. It has 40 Black cards, 28 Blue cards, 28 Red cards, 21 Green Cards and 21 White cards...

-Judgment

Judgment (Magic: The Gathering)

Judgment is the third set in the Odyssey Block for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.This is the second expansion set made that did not have an equal number cards from each color. The first expansion with such an imbalance was its predecessor, the Torment expansion set, which was...

Booster Draft, Odyssey Block Constructed, and Standard as individual formats and Odyssey Team Rochester Draft as the team format.

245 players from 46 countries competed in the tournament. 24-year old Carlos "Jaba" Romão

Carlos Romão

Carlos Eduardo Romão is a Brazilian Magic: The Gathering player. He is best known for his win at the 2002 World Championships. Along with Diego Ostrovich, he is widely regarded as the first South American to achieve success on the Pro Tour, and was the first South American to win a Pro...

 from São Paulo, Brazil came out as world champion, defeating Mark Ziegner 3–2 in the final, thereby garnering a prize of $35,000 with the help of his blue/black "Psychatog" deck. Germany won the team competition, defeating the United States in the final 2–1.

Finishing order

1.   Carlos Romão
   Carlos Romão
   Carlos Eduardo Romão is a Brazilian Magic: The Gathering player. He is best known for his win at the 2002 World Championships. Along with Diego Ostrovich, he is widely regarded as the first South American to achieve success on the Pro Tour, and was the first South American to win a Pro...
   
   
2.   Mark Ziegner
3.   Diego Ostrovich
4.   Dave Humpherys
   Dave Humpherys
   David Humpherys is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player from the United States. Humpherys now works for the company that produced Magic, Wizards of the Coast. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in November 2006.- Top 8 appearances :- References :...
   
   
5.   Sim Han How
6. John Larkin
7.   Tuomas Kotiranta
8.   Ken Krouner

Team final

1.   Germany – Kai Budde
   Kai Budde
   Kai Budde , is a professional Magic: The Gathering player, who holds the records for earnings, Pro Tour victories and lifetime Pro Points. His performances earned him the nicknames "The Juggernaut" and "King of the Grand Prix"...
   
   , Mark Ziegner, Felix Schneiders
2.   United States – Eugene Harvey
   Eugene Harvey (Magic: The Gathering player)
   Eugene Harvey is an American Magic: The Gathering player. His major successes include four Pro Tour top eights, and five Grand Prix top eights. Harvey was part of the US national team that won the World Championship in 2001, which was Harvey's first Pro Tour. He also won the 2002 US National...
   
   , Andrew Ranks, Eric Franz

Pro Tour Player of the Year

1.   Kai Budde
   Kai Budde
   Kai Budde , is a professional Magic: The Gathering player, who holds the records for earnings, Pro Tour victories and lifetime Pro Points. His performances earned him the nicknames "The Juggernaut" and "King of the Grand Prix"...
   
   
2.   Jens Thorén
   Jens Thoren
   Jens Thorén is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player from Sweden. He is best known for winning the 2002 Magic Invitational and finishing in the top 4 of two Pro Tours in a row in the 2001–02 season. That season, he also finished second in the Player of the Year race to Kai Budde. He...
   
   
3.   Alex Shvartsman
   Alex Shvartsman
   Alex Shvartsman is an American Magic: The Gathering player. While having enjoyed only a moderate degree of success on the Pro Tour, he is one of the most successful Grand Prix players ever. With 21 appearances, Shvartsman held the record for most Grand Prix top eights for a long time, and is now...
   
   

Rookie of the Year

1.   Farid Meraghni

2003 World championship

Daniel Zink – 2003 World Championship Wake
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
4 Mana Leak 1 Circular Logic 4 Wrath of God 2 Vengeful Dreams 3 Moment's Peace 3 Renewed Faith 3 Mirari's Wake 1 Mirari 4 Deep Analysis 3 Compulsion 3 Cunning Wish 2 Decree of Justice	4 Krosan Verge 4 Skycloud Expanse 4 Forest 4 Plains 7 Island 2 Flooded Strand 2 Elfhame Palace	1 Vengeful Dreams 1 Hunting Pack 1 Wing Shards 1 Circular Logic 1 Ray of Distortion 1 Renewed Faith 1 Krosan Reclamation 2 Exalted Angel 3 Ray of Revelation 3 Anurid Brushhopper

(Complete coverage)

The tenth World Championship was held from 6 to 10 August at the Estrel Hotel

Estrel Hotel

The Estrel Berlin in Berlin is Europe’s largest convention-, entertainment- & hotel-complex and with its 1,125 rooms the largest hotel in Germany. With a total turnover of 100.8 million DM in the year 2000 the Estrel became the hotel with the highest turnover in Germany. Since then, it has been the...

 in Berlin, Germany. The tournament featured Onslaught

Onslaught (Magic: The Gathering)

Onslaught is the 27th Magic: The Gathering expert-level expansion set. It was released in October 2002. The set's main theme is creature types , and much of the game play concerns interactions between these "tribes". The story continues the saga of the Mirari from the previous block of expansion sets...

-Legions-Scourge

Scourge

A scourge is a whip or lash, especially a multi-thong type used to inflict severe corporal punishment or self-mortification on the back.-Description:...

Rochester Draft, Extended, and Standard as individual formats and Onslaught Team Rochester Draft as the team format.

312 players from 54 countries participated in the tournament. German Daniel Zink managed to emerge as the new world champion, beating Japan's Jin Okamoto 3–0 in the finals and taking home $35,000 in the process. The total prize money awarded to the top 64 finishers was $208,130. In the team final the United States defeated Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 2–1.

Finishing order

1.   Daniel Zink
2.   Jin Okamoto
3.   Tuomo Nieminen
4.   Dave Humpherys
   Dave Humpherys
   David Humpherys is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player from the United States. Humpherys now works for the company that produced Magic, Wizards of the Coast. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in November 2006.- Top 8 appearances :- References :...
   
   
5.   Jeroen Remie
6.   Peer Kröger
7.   Wolfgang Eder
8.   Gabe Walls

Team Finals

1.   United States – Justin Gary
   Justin Gary
   Justin Gary is an American Magic: The Gathering player. His most notable Pro Tour finish is his win at Pro Tour Houston 2002. Rob Dougherty and Darwin Kastle who both tested with Gary finished second and third respectively at the same event.-Achievements:...
   
   , Gabe Walls, Joshua Wagner
2.   Finland
   Finland
   Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
   
    – Tomi Walamies, Tuomo Nieminen, Arho Toikka

Player of the Year Race

1.   Kai Budde
   Kai Budde
   Kai Budde , is a professional Magic: The Gathering player, who holds the records for earnings, Pro Tour victories and lifetime Pro Points. His performances earned him the nicknames "The Juggernaut" and "King of the Grand Prix"...
   
   


2.   Justin Gary
   Justin Gary
   Justin Gary is an American Magic: The Gathering player. His most notable Pro Tour finish is his win at Pro Tour Houston 2002. Rob Dougherty and Darwin Kastle who both tested with Gary finished second and third respectively at the same event.-Achievements:...
   
   


2.   Mattias Jorstedt

Rookie of the Year

  Masashi Oiso

Masashi Oiso

is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is one of the most successful players to have played on the Pro Tour, being one of only six players to have reached the top eight six times...

2004 World championship

Julien Nuijten – 2004 World Championship W/G Astral Slide
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
4 Viridian Shaman 4 Eternal Witness 4 Eternal Dragon 4 Wrath of God 4 Renewed Faith 4 Astral Slide 2 Akroma's Vengeance 2 Decree of Justice 1 Plow Under 2 Wing Shards 4 Rampant Growth	4 Secluded Steppe 4 Tranquil Thicket 4 Windswept Heath 6 Plains 7 Forest	4 Oxidize 2 Rude Awakening 3 Scrabbling Claws 3 Circle of Protection: Red 3 Plow Under

(Complete coverage)

The eleventh World Championship was held from 1 to 5 September at the Fort Mason Center

Fort Mason

Fort Mason, once known as San Francisco Port of Embarkation, US Army, in San Francisco, California, is a former United States Army post located in the northern Marina District, alongside San Francisco Bay. Fort Mason served as an Army post for more than 100 years, initially as a coastal defense...

 in San Francisco, California, USA.
The tournament featured Standard on Wednesday, Mirrodin

Mirrodin

Mirrodin was the 50th Magic: The Gathering set, the 30th expert level set, and the first set in the Mirrodin Block, released in October 2003. It is a 306-card expansion set. It is also the name of the block containing the Mirrodin, Darksteel and Fifth Dawn expansion sets...

-Darksteel

Darksteel

Darksteel is an expansion set for the game Magic: The Gathering, the second in the Mirrodin block of sets that also features Mirrodin and Fifth Dawn. It was released in February 2004, containing 165 cards. Darksteel continued the themes established in Mirrodin: Artifact cards, equipment and the...

-Fifth Dawn

Fifth Dawn

Fifth Dawn is a Magic: The Gathering expansion set which was released in May 2004. It is the third and final set of the Mirrodin block. There are 165 cards overall, and like the rest of Mirrodin, an unusually large number of them are artifacts...

Booster Draft on Thursday, and Mirrodin Block Constructed on Friday. The team format was Mirrodin Block Team Rochester Draft.

304 players from 51 countries competed in the event. This was the first ever World Championships without a player from the United States in the Top 8. Julien Nuijten won the final 3–1 against Aeo Paquette. At 15 years old, he became the youngest ever Pro Tour winner and took home a total of $52,366 – a new record for winnings in a single collectible card game

Collectible card game

thumb|Players and their decksA collectible card game , also called a trading card game or customizable card game, is a game played using specially designed sets of playing cards...

 tournament. The total prize money awarded to the top 64 finishers was $208,130. Team Germany won the team final 2–1 against Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

.

Finishing order

1.   Julien Nuijten
2.   Aeo Paquette
3.   Ryou Ogura
4.   Manuel Bevand
5.   Kamiel Cornelissen
   Kamiel Cornelissen
   Kamiel Cornelissen is a Dutch Magic: The Gathering player. Once a Pro Tour mainstay, he is now considered retired, despite playing the odd event. He is one of eighteen players with five or more Pro Tour top eights, including back to back second place finishes, and a win with teammates Jelger...
   
   
6.   Terry Soh
7.   Gabriel Nassif
   Gabriel Nassif
   Gabriel Nassif is a French professional card player. He is known for his continuous success on the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour and was the 2004 Pro Tour Player of the Year. He also enjoys playing poker, having moderate success at the World Series of Poker in recent years...
   
   
8.   Murray Evans

Team final

1.   Germany – Torben Twiefel, Roland Bode, Sebastian Zink
2.   Belgium
   Belgium
   Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
   
    – Vincent Lemoine, Dilson Ramos Da Fonseca, Geoffery Siron

Player of the Year Race

1.   Gabriel Nassif
   Gabriel Nassif
   Gabriel Nassif is a French professional card player. He is known for his continuous success on the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour and was the 2004 Pro Tour Player of the Year. He also enjoys playing poker, having moderate success at the World Series of Poker in recent years...
   
   
2.   Nicolai Herzog
   Nicolai Herzog
   Nicolai Herzog is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Oslo, Norway. His greatest achievement was winning two consecutive Limited Pro Tours in 2004. Both featured draft formats in the Mirrodin-block...
   
   
3.   Rickard Österberg

Rookie of the Year

  Julien Nuijten

2005 World championship

(Complete coverage)

Katsuhiro Mori – 2005 World Championship Ghazi Glare
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
2 Yosei, The Morning Star 3 Arashi the Sky Asunder 1 Birds of Paradise 4 Selesnya Guildmage 4 Wood Elves 4 Loxodon Hierarch 3 Kodama of the North Tree 3 Llanowar Elves 3 Pithing Needle 3 Umezawa's Jitte 2 Congregation at Dawn 3 Glare of Subdual 2 Seed Spark	4 Vitu-Ghazi, The City Tree 4 Selesnya Sanctuary 1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers 4 Brushland 5 Forest 4 Temple Garden 1 Plains	2 Greater Good 1 Kodama of the North Tree 2 Naturalize 2 Carven Caryatid 1 Seedborn Muse 1 Wrath of God 1 Kodama's Reach 2 Yosei, the Morning Star 3 Hokori, Dust Drinker

The twelfth World Championship was held from 30 November to 4 December at the Pacifico Yokohama

Pacifico Yokohama

Pacifico Yokohama is a convention center in Japan located in the western region of Minato Mirai Nishi-ku Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture....

 in Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

, Japan. The tournament featured Standard on Wednesday, Ravnica Booster Draft on Thursday, and Extended on Friday. The team format was Ravnica Team Rochester Draft. The event began with the induction of the first class of the newly incepted Hall of Fame

Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame

The Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame was started in 2005 to honor the most successful Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour players. The first inductions came on the tenth anniversary of the first Pro Tour event, and new Hall of Famers will be determined annually...

 – Alan Comer

Alan Comer

Alan Comer is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player. He was elected to the Magic Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class in 2005. He was the only member of the class never to have won a Pro Tour...

, Jon Finkel

Jon Finkel

Jon Finkel is an American Magic: The Gathering and poker player. In the year 2000, he became the world champion of Magic, as well as being on the team that became the team world champion.-Career:...

, Tommi Hovi

Tommi Hovi

Tommi Hovi is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player from Finland. He was inducted into the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in the inaugural class in 2005...

, Darwin Kastle

Darwin Kastle

- Other accomplishments :* 2005 Hall of Fame inductee* Last player to have played all Pro Tours after 48 appearances from 1996 PT New York to 2004 PT Kobe- References :...

, and Olle Råde

Olle Råde

Olle Råde is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Sweden. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class in 2005. Olle was also the first player awarded with the coveted Player of the Year award and was the first non-American player to...

.

287 players from 56 countries competed in the event. Katsuhiro Mori

Katsuhiro Mori

is Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is the most successful player in the individual portion of World Championships, winning one tournament and making the top eight of two others.-Career:...

  won the tournament, defeating Frank Karsten 3–1 in the final, taking home $35,000. The total prize money awarded to the top 64 finishers was $208,130. In the team final Japan defeated the United States 3–0.

Finishing Order

1.   Katsuhiro Mori
   Katsuhiro Mori
   is Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is the most successful player in the individual portion of World Championships, winning one tournament and making the top eight of two others.-Career:...
   
   
2.   Frank Karsten
   Frank Karsten (Magic: The Gathering player)
   Frank Karsten is a Dutch Magic: The Gathering player. He is known for his methodical thought process, having played one of the longest single games to be played on camera. His achievements include three pro tour top eight appearances, including a second place finish at the 2005 World...
   
   
3.   Tomohiro Kaji
4.   Akira Asahara
   Akira Asahara
   Akira Asahara is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. His successes include two Pro Tour top eights, two Grand Prix wins, and eight other Grand Prix top eights. He has been referred to as a rogue deck designer.-Achievements:...
   
   
5.   Marcio Carvalho
6.   Ding Leong
7.   Shuhei Nakamura
8.   André Coimbra

Team final

1.   Japan – Takuma Morofuji, Ichirou Shimura, Masashi Oiso
   Masashi Oiso
   is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is one of the most successful players to have played on the Pro Tour, being one of only six players to have reached the top eight six times...
   
   
2.   United States – Antonino De Rosa
   Antonino De Rosa
   Antonino De Rosa is an Italian-American Magic: The Gathering player. His successes include three Grand Prix wins, a US Nationals title in 2005, and a top eight at Pro Tour Prague 2006.- Achievements:Other accomplishments...
   
   , Neil Reeves, Jonathan Sonne
   Jonathan Sonne
   Jonathan Sonne is an American Magic: The Gathering player. He has reached the top eight of a Pro Tour once, and has won two Grand Prix. He was also part of the US national team that placed second at the World Championship in 2005.-Achievements:...
   
   

Player of the Year Race

1.   Kenji Tsumura
   Kenji Tsumura
   is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Japan. He is one of only seven players to have reached the top eight of a Pro Tour more than five times.-Career:...
   
   
2.   Olivier Ruel
   Olivier Ruel
   Olivier Ruel is one of the most successful professional Magic: The Gathering players. He holds the record for most Grand Prix Top 8’s, and is one of twenty players with five or more Pro Tour top 8’s. After 2010 Pro Tour San Juan Olivier surpassed Kai Budde as the leader in lifetime Pro Points...
   
   
3.   Masashi Oiso
   Masashi Oiso
   is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is one of the most successful players to have played on the Pro Tour, being one of only six players to have reached the top eight six times...
   
   

Rookie of the Year

1.   Pierre Canali

Hall of Fame inductees Jon Finkel

Jon Finkel

Jon Finkel is an American Magic: The Gathering and poker player. In the year 2000, he became the world champion of Magic, as well as being on the team that became the team world champion.-Career:...

 Darwin Kastle

Darwin Kastle

- Other accomplishments :* 2005 Hall of Fame inductee* Last player to have played all Pro Tours after 48 appearances from 1996 PT New York to 2004 PT Kobe- References :...

 Tommi Hovi

Tommi Hovi

Tommi Hovi is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player from Finland. He was inducted into the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in the inaugural class in 2005...

 Alan Comer

Alan Comer

Alan Comer is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player. He was elected to the Magic Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class in 2005. He was the only member of the class never to have won a Pro Tour...

 Olle Råde

Olle Råde

Olle Råde is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Sweden. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class in 2005. Olle was also the first player awarded with the coveted Player of the Year award and was the first non-American player to...

2006 World championship

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Makihito Mihara – 2006 World Championship Dragonstorm
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
4 Bogardan Hellkite 2 Hunted Dragon 4 Dragonstorm 4 Lotus Bloom 4 Telling Time 4 Seething Song 4 Sleight of Hand 4 Rite of Flame 4 Gigadrowse 4 Remand	1 Dreadship Reef 1 Calciform Pools 8 Island 4 Steam Vents 4 Mountain 4 Shivan Reef	1 Trickbind 3 Pyroclasm 1 Calciform Pools 2 Dreadship Reef 3 Ignorant Bliss 4 Repeal 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

The thirteenth Magic World Championship took place from 29 November – 3 December 2006 at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France. The tournament featured Standard on Wednesday, Time Spiral

Time Spiral

Time Spiral is a Magic: The Gathering expansion set, released October 6, 2006. The set is laden with references to previous Magic: the Gathering sets and is the first to take place in Dominaria since the May 2003 set Scourge...

Booster Draft on Thursday, and Extended on Friday. The team format was Time Spiral Team Rochester Draft. Also on Wednesday Bob Maher

Bob Maher

Robert Maher, Jr. , is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player. He picked up the Magic game after sustaining a football injury in high school, and has gone on to become one of the most celebrated players in the game's history, earning the nickname "The Great One".-Magic: The...

, Dave Humpherys

Dave Humpherys

David Humpherys is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player from the United States. Humpherys now works for the company that produced Magic, Wizards of the Coast. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in November 2006.- Top 8 appearances :- References :...

, Raphaël Lévy

Raphaël Lévy

Raphaël Lévy is a professional Magic: The Gathering player. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in November 2006. He is the first player to have been inducted while active on the Pro Tour. He is one of only four players to have won Grand Prix on three different...

, Gary Wise

Gary Wise

Gary Wise is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Canada. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in November 2006. He also wrote the "Wise Words" and "Limited Skills" articles....

, and Rob Dougherty

Rob Dougherty

Robert R. Dougherty is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Framingham, Massachusetts. He was inducted to the Magic Hall of Fame in November 2006. He is also a tournament organizer and the founder of Your Move Games...

 were inducted into the Hall of Fame

Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame

The Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame was started in 2005 to honor the most successful Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour players. The first inductions came on the tenth anniversary of the first Pro Tour event, and new Hall of Famers will be determined annually...

.

The winner of this tournament was Makihito Mihara

Makihito Mihara

is Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. Best known for winning the 2006 World Championship, Mihara's resume includes two more Pro Tour top eights, and three Grand Prix top eights including a win.- Career :Mihara's Pro Tour career began at Pro Tour Venice in 2003...

, who defeated Ryou Ogura 3–0 in an all-Japanese final. He piloted a combo deck based on the card . It is the first time players from the same country have been World Champion in back-to-back seasons. The Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 defeated Japan 2–0 in the team final. The total prize money awarded to the top 75 finishers was $255,245.

Finishing Order

1.   Makihito Mihara
   Makihito Mihara
   is Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. Best known for winning the 2006 World Championship, Mihara's resume includes two more Pro Tour top eights, and three Grand Prix top eights including a win.- Career :Mihara's Pro Tour career began at Pro Tour Venice in 2003...
   
   
2.   Ryou Ogura
3.   Nicholas Lovett
4.   Gabriel Nassif
   Gabriel Nassif
   Gabriel Nassif is a French professional card player. He is known for his continuous success on the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour and was the 2004 Pro Tour Player of the Year. He also enjoys playing poker, having moderate success at the World Series of Poker in recent years...
   
   
5.   Paulo Carvalho
6.   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa is a Brazilian Magic: The Gathering player. He is the first South American player to have seven Pro Tour top 8s. In 2011, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa became the youngest player to ever reach 300 lifetime Pro Points.- Career :Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa began his professional...
   
   
7.   Tiago Chan
8.   Katsuhiro Mori
   Katsuhiro Mori
   is Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is the most successful player in the individual portion of World Championships, winning one tournament and making the top eight of two others.-Career:...
   
   

Team final

1.   Netherlands
   Netherlands
   The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
   
    – Kamiel Cornelissen
   Kamiel Cornelissen
   Kamiel Cornelissen is a Dutch Magic: The Gathering player. Once a Pro Tour mainstay, he is now considered retired, despite playing the odd event. He is one of eighteen players with five or more Pro Tour top eights, including back to back second place finishes, and a win with teammates Jelger...
   
   , Julien Nuijten, Robert Van Medevoort
2.   Japan – Katsuhiro Mori
   Katsuhiro Mori
   is Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is the most successful player in the individual portion of World Championships, winning one tournament and making the top eight of two others.-Career:...
   
   , Shuhei Yamamoto, Hidenori Katayama

Player of the Year

1.   Shouta Yasooka
   Shouta Yasooka
   is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is best known for his success in the 2006 Pro Tour season, when he won Pro Tour Charleston with Tomohiro Kaji and Tomoharu Saitou, as well as the Player of the Year title....
   
   
2.   Shuhei Nakamura
3.   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa is a Brazilian Magic: The Gathering player. He is the first South American player to have seven Pro Tour top 8s. In 2011, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa became the youngest player to ever reach 300 lifetime Pro Points.- Career :Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa began his professional...
   
   

Rookie of the Year

1.   Sebastian Thaler

Hall of Fame inductees Bob Maher, Jr. Dave Humpherys

Dave Humpherys

David Humpherys is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player from the United States. Humpherys now works for the company that produced Magic, Wizards of the Coast. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in November 2006.- Top 8 appearances :- References :...

 Raphaël Lévy

Raphaël Lévy

Raphaël Lévy is a professional Magic: The Gathering player. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in November 2006. He is the first player to have been inducted while active on the Pro Tour. He is one of only four players to have won Grand Prix on three different...

 Gary Wise

Gary Wise

Gary Wise is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Canada. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame in November 2006. He also wrote the "Wise Words" and "Limited Skills" articles....

 Rob Dougherty

Rob Dougherty

Robert R. Dougherty is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Framingham, Massachusetts. He was inducted to the Magic Hall of Fame in November 2006. He is also a tournament organizer and the founder of Your Move Games...

2007 World championship

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Uri Peleg – 2007 World Championship Doran Rock
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
4 Birds of Paradise 4 Doran, the Siege Tower 1 Hypnotic Specter 3 Llanowar Elves 4 Ohran Viper 3 Shriekmaw 4 Tarmogoyf 2 Eyeblight's Ending 3 Garruk Wildspeaker 1 Liliana Vess 2 Nameless Inversion 2 Profane Command 4 Thoughtseize	1 Brushland 3 Caves of Koilos 1 Forest 2 Gemstone Mine 4 Gilt-Leaf Palace 1 Horizon Canopy 4 Llanowar Wastes 1 Pendelhaven 4 Treetop Village 2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth	2 Cloudthresher 2 Loxodon Warhammer 2 Nath of the Gilt-Leaf 1 Oblivion Ring 3 Riftsweeper 2 Serrated Arrows 1 Shriekmaw 2 Stupor

The fourteenth Magic World Championship took place from 6–9 December 2007 at the Jacob K. Javits Center of New York

Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is a large convention center located on Eleventh Avenue, between 34th and 38th streets, on the West side of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed by architects I. M. Pei and partners. The revolutionary space frame structure was undertaken in 1979 and...

 in New York City, USA. The tournament featured five rounds of Standard and a Lorwyn

Lorwyn

Lorwyn is the 66th Magic: The Gathering set, 43rd expert level set, and the first set in the Lorwyn Block, released in October 2007. It is codenamed "Peanut"...

Booster Draft on Thursday. Friday featured five rounds of Legacy and another Lorwyn Booster Draft. The team format was Lorwyn Two-Headed Giant Booster Draft. The top 64 individual finishers received $215,600 in prize money.

386 players from 61 countries competed in the event. The winner of the tournament was Uri Peleg, defeating Patrick Chapin 3–1 in the final. Katsuhiro Mori

Katsuhiro Mori

is Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is the most successful player in the individual portion of World Championships, winning one tournament and making the top eight of two others.-Career:...

  made the top 8 for the third consecutive year, while Gabriel Nassif made his third final eight within four Worlds. Coincidentally, each player mirrored their performance from the previous year (Mori was eliminated in the quarter-finals, Nassif in the semi-finals).

Finishing Order

1.   Uri Peleg
2.   Patrick Chapin
3.   Gabriel Nassif
   Gabriel Nassif
   Gabriel Nassif is a French professional card player. He is known for his continuous success on the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour and was the 2004 Pro Tour Player of the Year. He also enjoys playing poker, having moderate success at the World Series of Poker in recent years...
   
   
4.   Koutarou Ootsuka
5.   Cristoph Huber
6.   Yoshitaka Nakano
7.   Katsuhiro Mori
   Katsuhiro Mori
   is Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is the most successful player in the individual portion of World Championships, winning one tournament and making the top eight of two others.-Career:...
   
   
8.   Roel van Heeswijk

Team final

1.   Switzerland
   Switzerland
   Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
   
    – Nico Bohny, Manuel Bucher, Christoph Huber, Raphael Gennari
2.   Austria
   Austria
   Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
   
    – Thomas Preyer, David Reitbauer, Stefan Stradner, Helmut Summersberger

Pro Tour Player of the Year

1.   Tomoharu Saitou
   Tomoharu Saitou
   is one of the most successful professional Magic: The Gathering players.-Career:Saitou debuted at Pro Tour Chicago 2000. An 83rd place finish meant he fell just short of making money. Later the same season, he made his first standout finish by reaching the top eight of the Asia Pacific...
   
   
2.   Kenji Tsumura
   Kenji Tsumura
   is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Japan. He is one of only seven players to have reached the top eight of a Pro Tour more than five times.-Career:...
   
   
3.   Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
   Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
   Guillaume Wafo-Tapa is a French Magic: The Gathering player. Best known for winning Pro Tour Yokohama in 2007, Wafo-Tapa's career has featured three other Pro Tour top eights, and six Grand Prix top eights...
   
   

Rookie of the Year

1.   Yuuya Watanabe
   Yuuya Watanabe
   Yuuya Watanabe is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. With one Pro Tour top eight, and 13 Grand Prix top eights , Watanabe is best known for his Rookie of the Year title in 2007, and his Player of the Year title two years later....
   
   

Hall of Fame inductees Kai Budde

Kai Budde

Kai Budde , is a professional Magic: The Gathering player, who holds the records for earnings, Pro Tour victories and lifetime Pro Points. His performances earned him the nicknames "The Juggernaut" and "King of the Grand Prix"...

 Zvi Mowshowitz

Zvi Mowshowitz

-External links:*...

 Tsuyoshi Fujita

Tsuyoshi Fujita

Tsuyoshi Fujita is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Osaka, Japan. His most notable finishes include three Pro Tour top eights. He was inducted to the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Hall of Fame on 5 December 2007...

 Nicolai Herzog

Nicolai Herzog

Nicolai Herzog is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Oslo, Norway. His greatest achievement was winning two consecutive Limited Pro Tours in 2004. Both featured draft formats in the Mirrodin-block...

 Randy Buehler

Randy Buehler

Randolph E. Buehler, Jr. was the Vice President of Digital Gaming at Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., as well as the commentator for the Magic Pro Tour...

2008 World championship

Antti Malin – 2008 World Championship Faeries
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
4 Mistbind Clique 2 Sower of Temptation 4 Spellstutter Sprite 2 Vendilion Clique 4 Agony Warp 4 Bitterblossom 3 Broken Ambitions 4 Cryptic Command 3 Remove Soul 1 Terror 4 Thoughtseize	1 Faerie Conclave 6 Island 4 Mutavault 4 Secluded Glen 4 Sunken Ruins 2 Swamp 4 Underground River	4 Flashfreeze 2 Glen Elendra Archmage 4 Infest 2 Jace Beleren 1 Mind Shatter 1 Ponder 1 Sower of Temptation

(Official coverage)

The fifteenth Magic World Championship took place from 11–14 December 2008 at the Memphis Cook Convention Center in Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

, TN

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

, USA. The tournament featured six rounds of Standard play on Thursday, two Shards of Alara

Shards of Alara

Shards of Alara is an expansion set from the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. It is the 47th limited-edition expansion set for Magic and was released on October 3, 2008. On Magic Online Shards was released on October 20, 2008....

Booster Drafts with three rounds of Swiss each on Friday, six rounds of Extended on Saturday, and the finals on Sunday. Also the national teams played two rounds of team constructed each on Thursday and Saturday with the Top 4 teams advancing to the single elimination finals on Sunday. The team format was 3 Person Team Constructed with one player playing Standard, one Extended, and one Legacy. The top 75 individual finishers received $245,245 in prize money.

329 players from 57 countries competed in the event. Antti Malin

Antti Malin

Antti Malin is a Finnish player of fantasy card-game Magic: The Gathering. Malin won the World Championship of the game in December 2008 in Memphis, United States. He is from the capital of Finland, Helsinki....

 from Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 won the tournament, thereby claiming the first prize of $45,000. In the team final the United States defeated Australia to become the team champion.

Individual

1.   Antti Malin
   Antti Malin
   Antti Malin is a Finnish player of fantasy card-game Magic: The Gathering. Malin won the World Championship of the game in December 2008 in Memphis, United States. He is from the capital of Finland, Helsinki....
   
   
2.   Jamie Parke
3.   Tsuyoshi Ikeda
   Tsuyoshi Ikeda
   is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. His success include four top eights at the Pro Tour level, and six on the Grand Prix level, including one win. He is ranked 12th on lifetime pro points.-Career:...
   
   
4.   Hannes Kerem
5.   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa is a Brazilian Magic: The Gathering player. He is the first South American player to have seven Pro Tour top 8s. In 2011, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa became the youngest player to ever reach 300 lifetime Pro Points.- Career :Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa began his professional...
   
   
6.   Kenji Tsumura
   Kenji Tsumura
   is a professional Magic: The Gathering player from Japan. He is one of only seven players to have reached the top eight of a Pro Tour more than five times.-Career:...
   
   
7.   Frank Karsten
   Frank Karsten (Magic: The Gathering player)
   Frank Karsten is a Dutch Magic: The Gathering player. He is known for his methodical thought process, having played one of the longest single games to be played on camera. His achievements include three pro tour top eight appearances, including a second place finish at the 2005 World...
   
   
8.   Akira Asahara
   Akira Asahara
   Akira Asahara is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. His successes include two Pro Tour top eights, two Grand Prix wins, and eight other Grand Prix top eights. He has been referred to as a rogue deck designer.-Achievements:...
   
   

Team Competition

1.   United States – Michael Jacob, Samuel Black, Paul Cheon
2.   Australia – Aaron Nicastri, Brandon Lau, Justin Cheung
3.   Brazil – Willy Edel, Vagner Casatti, Luiz Guilherme de Michielli
4.   Japan – Yuuya Watanabe
   Yuuya Watanabe
   Yuuya Watanabe is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. With one Pro Tour top eight, and 13 Grand Prix top eights , Watanabe is best known for his Rookie of the Year title in 2007, and his Player of the Year title two years later....
   
   , Masashi Oiso
   Masashi Oiso
   is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is one of the most successful players to have played on the Pro Tour, being one of only six players to have reached the top eight six times...
   
   , Akihiro Takakuwa

Pro Player of the Year

1.   Shuhei Nakamura


2.   Olivier Ruel
   Olivier Ruel
   Olivier Ruel is one of the most successful professional Magic: The Gathering players. He holds the record for most Grand Prix Top 8’s, and is one of twenty players with five or more Pro Tour top 8’s. After 2010 Pro Tour San Juan Olivier surpassed Kai Budde as the leader in lifetime Pro Points...
   
   


2.   Luis Scott-Vargas
   Luis Scott-Vargas
   Luis Scott-Vargas is a professional Magic: the Gathering player from Oakland, CA, USA. His accomplishments include 7 Grand Prix top 8's , and 5 Pro Tour top 8's . As well as being a prominent player of the game, Luis is also known for writing about the game...
   
   

Rookie of the Year

1.   Aaron Nicastri

Hall of Fame inductees Dirk Baberowski

Dirk Baberowski

Dirk Baberowski is one of the most successful professional Magic: The Gathering players. He has won three Pro Tours, tying him in second place with Jon Finkel. Two of those victories were won at team Pro Tours with his teammates of Phoenix Foundation, Kai Budde and Marco Blume.In 2008, Barberowski...

 Mike Turian

Mike Turian

Michael Turian is a successful professional player of Magic: The Gathering. He won Pro Tour New York with Team Potato Nation. Turian also won two Grand Prixs. In 2008 Mike Turian was voted in the Hall of Fame. He was inducted during the World championship in Memphis.- Career :Mike Turian qualified...

 Jelger Wiegersma

Jelger Wiegersma

Jelger Wiegersma is a Dutch Magic: The Gathering player. Formerly a pro he is now considered to be retired, but shows up for a Pro Tour every once in a while. He has won one Pro Tours as a member of team Von Dutch with teammates being Jeroen Remie and Kamiel Cornelissen. He also won a Grand Prix...

 Olivier Ruel

Olivier Ruel

Olivier Ruel is one of the most successful professional Magic: The Gathering players. He holds the record for most Grand Prix Top 8’s, and is one of twenty players with five or more Pro Tour top 8’s. After 2010 Pro Tour San Juan Olivier surpassed Kai Budde as the leader in lifetime Pro Points...

 Ben Rubin

2009 World championship

André Coimbra – 2009 World Championship Naya Lightsaber
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
4 Baneslayer Angel 4 Bloodbraid Elf 4 Noble Hierarch 4 Ranger of Eos 1 Scute Mob 4 Wild Nacatl 4 Woolly Thoctar 3 Ajani Vengeant 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Path to Exile	4 Arid Mesa 4 Forest 3 Mountain 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood 4 Plains 4 Rootbound Crag 4 Sunpetal Grove	1 Ajani Vengeant 2 Burst Lightning 4 Celestial Purge 4 Goblin Ruinblaster 4 Great Sable Stag

(Official coverage)

The sixteenth Magic World Championship took place from 19–22 November 2009 at the Palazzo Dei Congressi in Rome, Italy.
The tournament featured six rounds of Standard play on Thursday, two Zendikar

Zendikar

Zendikar is a Magic: The Gathering expansion set, that was released on October 2, 2009. It consists of 249 cards.-Set details:Zendikar is the first set in the Zendikar block...

 Booster Drafts with three rounds of Swiss each on Friday, six rounds of Extended on Saturday and the finals on Sunday. Also, the national teams played two rounds of team constructed each on Thursday and Saturday with the Top 4 teams advancing to the single elimination finals on Sunday. The team format was 3 Person Team Constructed with one player playing Standard, one Extended, and one Legacy.

409 players from 65 countries competed in the event. André Coimbra from Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 won the tournament, thereby claiming the first prize of $45,000. In the team final, China defeated Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 to become the team champion. This was the first Magic Pro Tour event of any sort in which no player in the Top 8 was from the United States or Japan. It was also the first time a Pro Tour Top 8 consisted of players from eight different countries.

The Magic Online

Magic: The Gathering Online

Magic: The Gathering Online or Magic Online is a direct video game adaptation of Magic: The Gathering, utilizing the concept of a virtual economy in order to preserve the collectible aspect of the card game. It is played through an Internet service operated by Wizards of the Coast, which went...

 World Championship was held for the first time. It also took place in Rome at the site of the paper Magic World Championship. The tournament was previously announced to be for eight competitors. The qualifications could be gained in special tournaments on Magic Online. The players played three rounds each of Classic, Zendikar Booster Draft, and Standard on computers provided on the site. After nine rounds the two best players determined the title in a final match of Standard. Anssi Myllymäki (screen name: Anathik) of Finland defeated former Pro Player of the Year Shouta Yasooka

Shouta Yasooka

is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. He is best known for his success in the 2006 Pro Tour season, when he won Pro Tour Charleston with Tomohiro Kaji and Tomoharu Saitou, as well as the Player of the Year title....

 (yaya3) in the final, thus claiming the grand prize of $13,000. The other contestans won between $4,000 and $9,000.

Individual

1.   André Coimbra
   André Coimbra
   André Coimbra is a professional Magic: The Gathering and poker player from Coimbra, Portugal. He is perhaps best known for winning the Magic: The Gathering 2009 World Championship.-Accomplishments:-Decks:...
   
   
2.   David Reitbauer
3.   Terry Soh
4.   Bram Snepvangers
   Bram Snepvangers
   Bram Snepvangers is a Dutch Magic: The Gathering player. He is now considered retired, but has been on and off the Pro Tour for twelve years. In addition to his success playing Magic, he is known as a community builder both as a judge and a tournament organiser. Each year he hosts an invitational...
   
   
5.   William Cavaglieri
6.   Manuel Bucher
7.   Marijn Lybaert
8.   Florian Pils

Team Competition

1.   China – Bo Li, Wu Tong, Zhiyang Zhang
2.   Austria – Benedikt Klauser, Bernhard Lehner, Benjamin Rozhon
3.   Czech Republic – Lucas Blohon, Lukas Jakolvsky, Jan Kotrla
4.   Netherlands – Kevin Grove, Niels Noorlander, Tom van Lamoen

Pro Player of the Year

1.   Yuuya Watanabe
   Yuuya Watanabe
   Yuuya Watanabe is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. With one Pro Tour top eight, and 13 Grand Prix top eights , Watanabe is best known for his Rookie of the Year title in 2007, and his Player of the Year title two years later....
   
   


2.   Tomoharu Saito


3.   Martin Juza
   Martin Juza
   Martin Juza is a Czech Magic: The Gathering player. Over the course of his career, Juza has won the Czech national championship, made the top eight of a Pro Tour twice, and won two Grand Prix that were only six weeks apart.- Career :...
   
   

Rookie of the Year

1.   Lino Burgold

Hall of Fame inductees Antoine Ruel

Antoine Ruel

Antoine Ruel is a professional Magic: The Gathering player. He has reached the top eight at the Pro Tour four times, including a win in Los Angeles in 2005...

 Kamiel Cornelissen

Kamiel Cornelissen

Kamiel Cornelissen is a Dutch Magic: The Gathering player. Once a Pro Tour mainstay, he is now considered retired, despite playing the odd event. He is one of eighteen players with five or more Pro Tour top eights, including back to back second place finishes, and a win with teammates Jelger...

 Frank Karsten

Frank Karsten (Magic: The Gathering player)

Frank Karsten is a Dutch Magic: The Gathering player. He is known for his methodical thought process, having played one of the longest single games to be played on camera. His achievements include three pro tour top eight appearances, including a second place finish at the 2005 World...

Magic Online World Champion Anssi Myllymäki

2010 World championship

Guillaume Matignon – 2010 World Championship Blue-Black Control
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
3 Grave Titan 2 Sea Gate Oracle 1 Cancel 2 Consume the Meek 2 Disfigure 2 Doom Blade 1 Duress 3 Inquisition of Kozilek 2 Jace Beleren 4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor 4 Mana Leak 4 Preordain 4 Spreading Seas	4 Creeping Tar Pit 4 Darkslick Shores 4 Drowned Catacomb 5 Island 1 Misty Rainforest 3 Swamp 4 Tectonic Edge 1 Verdant Catacombs	1 Deprive 2 Disfigure 1 Doom Blade 2 Duress 2 Flashfreeze 3 Memoricide 3 Ratchet Bomb 1 Sorin Markov

(Official coverage)

The seventeenth World Championship took place from 9–12 December in Makuhari Messe

Makuhari Messe

is a Japanese convention center outside Tokyo, located in the Mihama-ku ward of Chiba city, in the northwest corner of Chiba prefecture. Designed by Fumihiko Maki, it is easily accessible by Tokyo's commuter rail system. Makuhari is the name of the area, and Messe is a German word meaning "trade...

 in Chiba

Chiba, Chiba

is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is located approximately 40 km east of the center of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. Chiba City became a government designated city in 1992. Its population as of 2008 is approximately 960,000....

, Japan. The tournament consisted of six rounds of Standard on Thursday, two Scars of Mirrodin

Scars of Mirrodin

Scars of Mirrodin is a Magic: The Gathering expansion that was released on October 1, 2010. It is the first set of the Scars of Mirrodin block. This block will mark the return to the plane of Mirrodin. This plane was last visited in the Mirrodin block that concluded in 2004...

 Booster Drafts of three rounds each on Friday, and six rounds of Extended on Saturday. On Sunday the best eight players gathered for the Top 8. They had to play the same decks, they used in the Standard portion of the tournament. Also, the national teams played two rounds of team constructed each on Thursday and Saturday with the Top 2 teams advancing to the single elimination finals on Sunday. The team format is 3 Person Team Constructed with one player playing Standard, one Extended, and one Legacy.

352 players from 60 countries competed in the event. The national teams competition had 57 countries represented.

The 2010 World Champion Guillaume Matignon

Guillaume Matignon

Guillaume Matignon is a professional trading card game player from Bordeaux, France. He has earned numerous accolades during his career including the World of Warcraft TCG 2007 World Championship and the Magic: The Gathering 2010 World Championship....

 earned enough pro points with his performance to equal Pro Player of the Year leader Brad Nelson

Brad Nelson (Magic: The Gathering player)

Brad Nelson is an American Magic: The Gathering player. Also known by his Magic: The Gathering Online name, FFfreaK, he has two Pro Tour top eights, and four Grand Prix top eights, including a win. In the quarter finals of Pro Tour Amsterdam 2010, he became one of only three players to have beaten...

's total. This led to a play-off for the Pro Player of the Year title at Pro Tour Paris 2011, which was ultimately won by Brad Nelson.

Individual

1.   Guillaume Matignon
   Guillaume Matignon
   Guillaume Matignon is a professional trading card game player from Bordeaux, France. He has earned numerous accolades during his career including the World of Warcraft TCG 2007 World Championship and the Magic: The Gathering 2010 World Championship....
   
   
2.   Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
   Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
   Guillaume Wafo-Tapa is a French Magic: The Gathering player. Best known for winning Pro Tour Yokohama in 2007, Wafo-Tapa's career has featured three other Pro Tour top eights, and six Grand Prix top eights...
   
   
3.   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa is a Brazilian Magic: The Gathering player. He is the first South American player to have seven Pro Tour top 8s. In 2011, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa became the youngest player to ever reach 300 lifetime Pro Points.- Career :Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa began his professional...
   
   
4.   Love Janse
5.   Eric Froehlich
   Eric Froehlich
   Eric Froehlich is an American professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. As of 2009, Froehlich's total live tournament winnings exceed $1,300,000. His 16 cashes at the WSOP account for $867,783 of those winnings....
   
   
6.   Lukas Jaklovsky
7.   Christopher Wolf
8.   Jonathan Randle

Team Competition

1.   Slovakia – Ivan Floch, Robert Jurkovic, Patrik Surab
2.   Australia – Adam Witton, Ian Wood, Jeremy Neeman

Pro Player of the Year

1.   Brad Nelson
   Brad Nelson (Magic: The Gathering player)
   Brad Nelson is an American Magic: The Gathering player. Also known by his Magic: The Gathering Online name, FFfreaK, he has two Pro Tour top eights, and four Grand Prix top eights, including a win. In the quarter finals of Pro Tour Amsterdam 2010, he became one of only three players to have beaten...
   
   


1.   Guillaume Matignon
   Guillaume Matignon
   Guillaume Matignon is a professional trading card game player from Bordeaux, France. He has earned numerous accolades during his career including the World of Warcraft TCG 2007 World Championship and the Magic: The Gathering 2010 World Championship....
   
   


3.   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa is a Brazilian Magic: The Gathering player. He is the first South American player to have seven Pro Tour top 8s. In 2011, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa became the youngest player to ever reach 300 lifetime Pro Points.- Career :Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa began his professional...
   
   

Rookie of the Year

1.   Andrea Giarola

Hall of Fame inductees Gabriel Nassif

Gabriel Nassif

Gabriel Nassif is a French professional card player. He is known for his continuous success on the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour and was the 2004 Pro Tour Player of the Year. He also enjoys playing poker, having moderate success at the World Series of Poker in recent years...

 Brian Kibler

Brian Kibler

Brian M. Kibler is an American game designer currently working with Gamer Entertainment, a gaming consultancy. In 2010 Kibler designed Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer with Justin Gary, Rob Dougherty, and John Fiorillo. Previously he worked on Chaotic and was the lead designer of the World of...

 Bram Snepvangers

Bram Snepvangers

Bram Snepvangers is a Dutch Magic: The Gathering player. He is now considered retired, but has been on and off the Pro Tour for twelve years. In addition to his success playing Magic, he is known as a community builder both as a judge and a tournament organiser. Each year he hosts an invitational...

Magic Online World Champion Carlos Romão

Carlos Romão

Carlos Eduardo Romão is a Brazilian Magic: The Gathering player. He is best known for his win at the 2002 World Championships. Along with Diego Ostrovich, he is widely regarded as the first South American to achieve success on the Pro Tour, and was the first South American to win a Pro...

2011 World championship

Jun'ya Iyanaga – 2011 World Championship Wolf Run Ramp
Main Deck:		Sideboard:
1 Birds of Paradise 4 Inferno Titan 4 Primeval Titan 4 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Thrun, the Last Troll 2 Devil's Play 4 Galvanic Blast 2 Green Sun's Zenith 4 Rampant Growth 1 Shock 3 Slagstorm 4 Sphere of the Suns	4 Copperline Gorge 5 Forest 4 Inkmoth Nexus 3 Kessig Wolf Run 6 Mountain 4 Rootbound Crag	2 Ancient Grudge 4 Autumn's Veil 1 Beast Within 1 Slagstorm 2 Sword of Feast and Famine 2 Thrun, the Last Troll 2 Tree of Redemption 1 Viridian Corrupter

(Official coverage)

The eighteenth Magic World Championship was held from 17–20 November in the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, USA, the same site that already hosted the 2004 World Championship. The tournament consisted of six rounds of Standard on Thursday, two Innistrad

Innistrad

Innistrad is a Magic: The Gathering expansion set released September 30, 2011. It is the first set of the Innistrad block. Innistrad is a "top-down" designed set based around Gothic horror. The sets mechanics and effects are mainly based around graveyard themes, with a minor focus on tribal...

 Booster Drafts of three rounds each on Friday, and six rounds of Modern on Saturday. This was be the first World Championship to feature the new Modern format. On Sunday, the Top 8 players will play-off against each other in elimination rounds

Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event...

, using the Standard decks they played on Thursday. 375 players from 60 countries competed in the event.

The swiss rounds were dominated by American player Conley Woods, who would go 16–2 with his only losses being tactical concessions to other ChannelFireball teammates. Ultimately, four ChannelFireball teammates would make it into the Top 8: Conley Woods, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa

Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa

Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa is a Brazilian Magic: The Gathering player. He is the first South American player to have seven Pro Tour top 8s. In 2011, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa became the youngest player to ever reach 300 lifetime Pro Points.- Career :Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa began his professional...

, Luis Scott-Vargas

Luis Scott-Vargas

Luis Scott-Vargas is a professional Magic: the Gathering player from Oakland, CA, USA. His accomplishments include 7 Grand Prix top 8's , and 5 Pro Tour top 8's . As well as being a prominent player of the game, Luis is also known for writing about the game...

 and Josh Utter-Leyton. For Paulo this was his fourth World Championship Top 8, making him the first player to achieve this, and his eighth Pro Tour Top 8 overall. Also, for the first time players playing in the Magic Online World Championships managed to make the Top 8 of the Pro Tour, with Jun’ya Iyanaga (SEVERUS on MTGO) and David Caplan (goobafish on MTGO) making it to Sunday. The quarterfinals saw three of the four ChannelFireball teammates eliminated, with only Conley Woods making it to the semifinals after narrowly defeating Craig Wescoe 3-2. The semifinals would be clean sweeps with Jun'ya Iyanaga and Richard Bland defeating Conley Woods and David Caplan 3-0 respectively. The finals would see Jun'ya Iyanaga defeat Richard Bland in another 3-0 clean sweep to become the 2011 World Champion. Jun'ya Iyanaga's prize money for winning the World Championship and placing seventh in the Magic Online World Championship was $51,000, making him the second highest earner in the history of the World Championships behind 2004 World Champion Julien Nuijten.

In the team event, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 played against Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 for the World Team Title. The Japanese team of Ryuichiro Ishida, Tomoya Fujimoto,and former World Champion Makihito Mihara

Makihito Mihara

is Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. Best known for winning the 2006 World Championship, Mihara's resume includes two more Pro Tour top eights, and three Grand Prix top eights including a win.- Career :Mihara's Pro Tour career began at Pro Tour Venice in 2003...

 were victorious.

In the Magic Online World Championship finals, Reid Duke (reidderrabbit on MTGO) played against Florian Pils (flying man on MTGO) in the Modern format. Reid Duke won the match 2–1 to become the Magic Online World Champion, the first American and the first Magic Online Player of the Year to win the title.

Individual

1.   Jun'ya Iyanaga
2.   Richard Bland
3.   Conley Woods
4.   David Caplan
5.   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
   Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa is a Brazilian Magic: The Gathering player. He is the first South American player to have seven Pro Tour top 8s. In 2011, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa became the youngest player to ever reach 300 lifetime Pro Points.- Career :Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa began his professional...
   
   
6.   Luis Scott-Vargas
   Luis Scott-Vargas
   Luis Scott-Vargas is a professional Magic: the Gathering player from Oakland, CA, USA. His accomplishments include 7 Grand Prix top 8's , and 5 Pro Tour top 8's . As well as being a prominent player of the game, Luis is also known for writing about the game...
   
   
7.   Josh Utter-Leyton
8.   Craig Wescoe

Team Competition

1.   Japan – Ryuichiro Ishida, Tomoya Fujimoto, Makihito Mihara
   Makihito Mihara
   is Japanese Magic: The Gathering player. Best known for winning the 2006 World Championship, Mihara's resume includes two more Pro Tour top eights, and three Grand Prix top eights including a win.- Career :Mihara's Pro Tour career began at Pro Tour Venice in 2003...
   
   
2.   Norway – Sveinung Bjørnerud , Kristoffer Jonassen, Andreas Nordahl

Pro Player of the Year

1.   Owen Turtenwald
   Owen Turtenwald
   Owen Turtenwald is a professional Magic: The Gathering player. He has achieved a number of accolades during his career including the 2010 Vintage World Championship and the 2011 Player of the Year.-Magic: The Gathering:...
   
   
2.   Luis Scott-Vargas
   Luis Scott-Vargas
   Luis Scott-Vargas is a professional Magic: the Gathering player from Oakland, CA, USA. His accomplishments include 7 Grand Prix top 8's , and 5 Pro Tour top 8's . As well as being a prominent player of the game, Luis is also known for writing about the game...
   
   
3.   Martin Juza
   Martin Juza
   Martin Juza is a Czech Magic: The Gathering player. Over the course of his career, Juza has won the Czech national championship, made the top eight of a Pro Tour twice, and won two Grand Prix that were only six weeks apart.- Career :...
   
   

Rookie of the Year

1.   Matthias Hunt

Hall of Fame inductees Shuhei Nakamura Anton Jonsson

Anton Jonsson

Anton Jonsson is a Swedish Magic: The Gathering player. He has retired from professional Magic. At the height of his career, Jonsson was considered one of the best players in the game, and was especially known for his proficiency at Limited, having reached the Top 8 of a Pro Tour five times...

 Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz

Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz

Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz is an American Magic: The Gathering player. At the height of his career in the late 1990s, he was considered one of the best players. He is well known as a friend and teammate to Jon Finkel.-Career:...

Magic Online World Champion Reid Duke

2012 World championship

The nineteenth Magic World Championship will be held from the 16–19 August at Gen Con

Gen Con

Gen Con is one of the largest and most prominent annual gaming conventions in North America. It features traditional pen-and-paper, board, and card-style games, including role-playing games, miniatures wargames, board games, live action role-playing games, collectible card games, non-collectible...

 2012 in Indianapolis

Indianapolis

Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...

. For the first time the World Championships will not be a Pro Tour

Pro Tour (Magic: The Gathering)

The Pro Tour is the highest form of competitive play for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game. It consists of a series of payout tournaments held throughout the world, each requiring an invitation to participate. Every PT awards a total of $230,000 in cash prizes, with $40,000 going to...

-sized event and instead be an exclusive sixteen-person tournament. The changes were designed to make the World Championship more prestigious and meaningful as the tournament will now replace the Pro Player of the Year title. Wizards of the Coast stated in their announcement of the changes that 'For the first time, since the creation of the Pro Tour, Magic: The Gathering will have a single tournament to determine the best player in the world: the 2012 World Championship'.

Performance by country

Japan and the United States are tied for the most individual titles won. The United States have won the most team titles and also have had most competitors amongst the final eight. Germany and the Netherlands are the only other countries with more than one champion. Italy and Austria are the most successful nations that have never won a title.

Country	Wins	Top 8	Team Wins
United States	3	34	8
Japan	3	16	2
Germany	2	9	2
Netherlands	2	8	1
Switzerland	1	3	1
France	1	12	0
Finland	1	6	0
Brazil	1	5	0
Portugal	1	5	0
Czech Republic	1	3	0
Australia	1	1	0
Israel	1	1	0
Canada	0	7	1
Slovakia	0	1	1
China	0	0	1
Austria	0	5	0
Italy	0	5	0
Sweden	0	3	0
Belgium	0	2	0
England	0	2	0
Estonia	0	1	0

External links

• Official MTG "Tournament Center"
• Top 4 decklists 1994–2000
• Event Coverage Archive