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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, offering cash prizes to the winners. With the exception of the first edition, Worlds is an invitation-only event, and from 1996 to 2011, Worlds was the last event of each Pro Tour season. The invitees were mostly top finishers from the National championships, the top-ranked players of the DCI and high-level pro players. Since 2012, the World Championships have been held after the season, and the most successful players have been invited to the tournament, which has varied from the top 16 to the top 24. World Championships have been held in various countries.

History

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The first World Championship was held in 1994 at the Gen Con fair in Milwaukee. The tournament was open to all competitors, and its mode was single-elimination. It was also the only World Championship to use the Vintage competitive format.[1]

For 2012, the World Championships would be replaced by a 16-player invitational event named the Magic: The Gathering Players Championship. The Pro Player of the Year title was discontinued in favor of the Players Championship, thus attempting to merge the major individual titles, the World Champion and the Pro Player of the Year.

However, for the next season, the Players Championship was renamed to World Championship, and Pro Player of the Year was made a separate title once again.[2] Originally the team portion of Worlds was planned to be discontinued, but Wizards of the Coast created a replacement named the World Magic Cup.[3]

Events and winners

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Year Individual Winner Winner Deck First place

prize (US$)

Second Place Location
1994[4][5] United States Zak Dolan "Angel Stasis" — France Bertrand Lestrée Milwaukee, WI
1995[6][7] Switzerland Alexander Blumke "Rack Control" France Marc Hernandez Seattle, WA
1996[8] Australia Tom Chanpheng "White Weenie" $26,000 United States Mark Justice Seattle, WA
1997[9][10] Czech Republic Jakub Slemr "Four Color Black" $34,000 Germany Janosch Kühn Seattle, WA
1998[11] United States Brian Selden "RecSur" $34,000 United States Ben Rubin Seattle, WA
1999[12][13] Germany Kai Budde "Wildfire" United States Mike Le Pine Yokohama, Japan
2000[14][15] United States Jon Finkel "Tinker" $34,000 United States Bob Maher, Jr. Brussels, Belgium
2001[16] Netherlands Tom van de Logt "Machine Head" $36,000 United States Alex Borteh Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2002[17] Brazil Carlos Romão "Psychatog" $35,000 Germany Mark Ziegner Sydney, Australia
2003[18] Germany Daniel Zink "Wake" $35,000 Japan Jin Okamoto Berlin, Germany
2004[19][20] Netherlands Julien Nuijten "W/G Astral Stride" $52,366 Canada Aeo Paquette San Francisco, CA
2005[21] Japan Katsuhiro Mori "Ghazi Glare" $35,000 Netherlands Frank Karsten Yokohama, Japan
2006[22][23] Japan Makihito Mihara "Dragon Storm" $50,000 Japan Ryou Ogura Paris, France
2007 Israel Uri Peleg "Doran Rock" $40,000 United States Patrick Chapin New York City, NY
2008 Finland Antti Malin "Faeries" $45,000 United States Jamie Park Memphis, TN
2009 Portugal André Coimbra "Naya Lightsaber" $45,000 Austria David Reitbauer Rome, Italy
2010 France Guillaume Matignon "Blue-Black Control" $46,350 France Guillaume Wafo-Tapa Chiba, Japan
2011 Japan Jun'ya Iyanaga "Wolf Run Ramp" $45,000 England Richard Bland San Francisco, CA
2012 Japan Yuuya Watanabe "Jund" $40,000 Japan Shouta Yasooka Seattle, WA
2013 Israel Shahar Shenhar "Flash" $41,650 United States Reid Duke Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014 Israel Shahar Shenhar "Sidisi Whip" $50,000 United States Patrick Chapin Nice, France
2015 United States Seth Manfield "Abzan Control" $50,000 United States Owen Turtenwald Seattle, WA
2016 United States Brian Braun-Duin "Bant Humans" $70,000 Portugal Marcio Carvalho Seattle, WA
2017 United States William Jensen "Temur Energy" $100,000 Spain Javier Dominguez Boston, MA
2018 Spain Javier Dominguez "Wu Gift" $100,000 Poland Grzegorz Kowalski Las Vegas, NV
2019 Brazil Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa "Azorius Control" $300,000 Portugal Marcio Carvalho Honolulu, HI
2021 Japan Yuta Takahashi "Izzet Dragons" $70,000 France Jean-Emmanuel Depraz Online - MTG Arena
2022 United States Nathan Steuer "Grixis Midrange" $100,000 United States Eli Kassis Las Vegas, NV
For the 1994 reward, Dolan received a shirt, trophy and poker cards.[24]

The 2020 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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