| 2024 World Championship | ||||
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| Date | October 25-27, 2024 | |||
| Location | Las Vegas, United States | |||
| Format | Duskmourn: House of Horror Booster Draft and Standard Constructed | |||
| Prize pool | $1,000,000 | |||
| Winner | TBA | |||
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The Magic: the Gathering 2024 World Championship, or Magic World Championship 30, is the 30th Magic World Championship and will be held at the end of the 2023–24 Pro Tour Season, on October 25-27, 2024 at MagicCon Las Vegas, USA.
Description[ | ]
The formats for World Championship 30 are Duskmourn: House of Horror Booster Draft and Standard Constructed.[1] The championship Due to Bloomburrow's unusually early release, the championship is the first middle-format Standard Worlds, and as such the largest pool for Standard to date, being ten sets large from the new three-year policy. 116 players are invited to compete for a prize pool of $1,000,000.
Qualification[ | ]
- The Top 8 finishers from the 2023 World Championship.
- Jean-Emmanuel Depraz, Kazune Kosaka, Simon Nielsen, Anthony Lee, Lorenzo Terlizzi, Willy Edel, Greg Orange, Reid Duke
- The Top 2 finishers from the three MTG Arena Championships.
- Shinya Saito and Bassel Nasri
- Toni Ramis Pascual and Ryan Condon
- Marcus Wosner and Wouter Noordzij
- The Top 2 finishers from the three Magic Online Premier Play Program.
- Lukas Jaklovsky and Sebastian Pozzo
- Mauro Sasso and Max Rappaport
- Sam Rolph and Stefan Schutz
- The Top 8 and other 36-pointers of each Pro Tour:
- Pro Tour Murders at Karlov Manor: Jean-Emmanuel Depraz^, Simon Nielsen^, Christoffer Larsen, Sam Pardee, Seth Manfield, Mingyang Chen, Adam Edelson, Alex Friedrichsen, Javier Dominguez
- Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction: Arne Huschenbeth, Jason Ye, Rei Zhang, Takumi Matsuura, Yoshihiko Ikawa, Yuta Takahashi, Sean Goddard, Lucas Duchow
- Pro Tour Modern Horizons 3: No Ah Ma, Eli Kassis, Jason Ye^, Javier Dominguez^, Simon Nielsen^, Sam Pardee^, Seth Manfield^, Daniel Goetschel
| Europe | Brazil | South America | Central America | USA | (East) Canada | West Canada | ANZ | South-East Asia | Japan | China | Taiwan | |
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| Cycle 1 | Adrián Iñigo Tastet (Lars Henrichvark) | William Araujo | Guillermo Sulimovich | Edgar Rangel Paez | Daniel Weiser (Mark Stanton) |
Ha Pham | Boston Schatteman | Brett Girvan | Zer Shiuan Peng | Kenta Masukado (Yuya Hosokawa) |
Fu Yu | Bor Hong Chen |
| Cycle 2 | Marco Del Pivo (Borja Yañez Carvajal) | Guilherme Merjam | Guillermo Loli | Dagoberto Silva | Minh Nguyen (Aiden Lamson) | Ulysse Gagnon Paradis (Patrick Wu) | N.A. | James Wilkes | Lucas Lim | Yoshihiko Ikawa^ (Atsushi Nakashima) | Muhan Yu | Yeh Yun-Chen |
| Cycle 3 | Mateo Ferreira (Ivan Errico) | Jonathan Lobo Melamed | Pedro Perrini | Erick Manuel Lopez Basulto | Adam Weiss (Chris Barone) | Liam Hoban (Asha Mills Emmett) | N.A. | Brennan Crawford | Richie Ong | Kenta Harane (Rei Hirayama) | Jianwei Liang | Wei Chung Shi |
Redundant invites are marked with ^.
- The top 32 ranked competitors that are not already invited to World Championship 30 in the Pro Tour Modern Horizons 3 Adjusted Match Points standing and all players tied with 32nd place in that standing.
- Alan Andrzejewski, Brian Boss, Christian Calcano, Márcio Carvalho, Derrick Davis, Jim Davis, Martin Dominguez, Etienne Eggenschwiler, Samuele Estratti, Jesse Hampton, Alexander Hayne, Jose Hilario, Toru Inoue, Yiren Jiang, Theodore Jung, Charis Kikidis, Matti Kuisma, James Larsen-Scott, Masahide Moriyama, Shuhei Nakamura, Nathanael Perigo, Thierry Ramboa, Cain Rianhard, Josep Sanfeliu, Karl Sarap, Luis Scott-Vargas, Matt Sperling, Mitchell Tamblyn, Nicole Tipple, Quinn Tonole, Brent Vos, Rob Wagner, and Shota Yasooka.
- Competitors that are otherwise invited to Magic World Championship 30: Kai Budde (policy exception).[2]
Prizes[ | ]
Competitors that finish in the top 8 will receive invitations to each Pro Tour and the World Championship in the 2024–25 Pro Tour Season. Competitors that finish in 9th through 24th place will receive an invitation to the first Pro Tour in the 2024-2025 Season.
There is a $1,000,000 prize pool, which is awarded to competitors based on their final standing in the tournament. First place will receive $100,000. All competitors will receive $4000 regardless of the final placing.[3]
Promo card[ | ]
TBA
Schedule[ | ]
Friday, September 22
- Rounds 1-3: Duskmourn: House of Horror draft
- Rounds 4-7: Standard Constructed
Competitors with twelve (12) or more match points after Round 7 will advance to Saturday's portion of the competition.
Saturday, September 23
- Rounds 8-10: Duskmourn: House of Horror draft
- Rounds 11-14: Standard Constructed
The top 8 players advance to Sunday.
Sunday, September 24
- Standard Constructed Top 8 single elimination
- Best three-out-of-five, sideboarding after Game 2.
Day 1[ | ]
Qualified participants from over 25 countries will compete in Duskmourn: House of Horror Draft.
Day 2[ | ]
TBA
Top 8[ | ]
TBA
References[ | ]
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (November 17, 2023). "The 2024 MagicCon Schedule". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (July 22, 2024). "Magic World Championship 30 Invitation List". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (July 22, 2024). "World Championship 30 Fact Sheet for Competitors". Magic.gg.