2008 World Championships

The Magic 2008 World Championships took place on 11–14 December 2008 at the Memphis Cook Convention Center in Memphis, USA.

Description
The tournament featured six rounds of Standard play on Thursday, two Shards of Alara 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 from Finland 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.

Team finals

 * 1) 🇺🇸 USA United States – Michael Jacob, Sam Black, Paul Cheon
 * 2) 🇦🇺 AUS Australia – Aaron Nicastri, Brandon Lau, Justin Cheung
 * 3) 🇧🇷 BRA Brazil – Willy Edel, Vagner Casatti, Luiz Guilherme de Michielli
 * 4) 🇯🇵 JPN Japan – Yuuya Watanabe, Masashi Oiso, Akihiro Takakuwa

Winning deck
 Creatures 4 Mistbind Clique 2 Sower of Temptation 4 Spellstutter Sprite 2 Vendilion Clique

Instants 4 Agony Warp

3 Broken Ambitions 4 Cryptic Command 3 Remove Soul 1 Terror

Sorceries 4 Thoughtseize

Enchantments 4 Bitterblossom

Lands 1 Faerie Conclave 6 Island 4 Mutavault 4 Secluded Glen 4 Sunken Ruins 2 Swamp 4 Underground River

Sideboard 4 Flashfreeze 2 Glen Elendra Archmage 4 Infest 2 Jace Beleren 1 Mind Shatter 1 Ponder 1 Sower of Temptation 