2006 World Championships

The Magic 2006 World Championships were held from 29 November – 3 December 2006 at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France.

Description
The tournament featured Standard on Wednesday, Time Spiral Booster Draft on Thursday, and Extended on Friday. The team format was Time Spiral Team Rochester Draft.

The winner of this tournament was Makihito Mihara, who defeated Ryou Ogura 3–0 in an all-Japanese final. He piloted a combo deck based on Dragonstorm. It was the first time players from the same country had been World Champion in back-to-back seasons. The Netherlands defeated Japan 2–0 in the team final. The total prize money awarded to the top 75 finishers was $255,245.

Finishing order

 * 1) 🇯🇵 JPN Makihito Mihara
 * 2) 🇯🇵 JPN Ryou Ogura
 * 3)  WLS Nicholas Lovett
 * 4) 🇫🇷 FRA Gabriel Nassif
 * 5) 🇵🇹 PRT Paulo Carvalho
 * 6) 🇧🇷 BRA Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
 * 7) 🇵🇹 PRT Tiago Chan
 * 8) 🇯🇵 JPN Katsuhiro Mori

Team final

 * 1) 🇳🇱 NLD Netherlands – Kamiel Cornelissen, Julien Nuijten, Robert Van Medevoort
 * 2) 🇯🇵 JPN Japan – Katsuhiro Mori, Shuhei Yamamoto, Hidenori Katayama

Winning deck
 Creatures 4 Bogardan Hellkite 2 Hunted Dragon Sorceries 4 Dragonstorm 4 Sleight of Hand 4 Rite of Flame Instants 4 Telling Time 4 Seething Song 4 Gigadrowse 4 Remand Artifacts 4 Lotus Bloom Lands 1 Dreadship Reef 1 Calciform Pools 8 Island 4 Steam Vents 4 Mountain 4 Shivan Reef

Sideboard 2 Dreadship Reef 1 Calciform Pools 1 Trickbind 3 Pyroclasm 3 Ignorant Bliss 4 Repeal 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir 