2001

The year 2001 was the ninth year of existence for Magic: The Gathering.

Events

Date	Event
Early 2000	The Dojo closes down.
January	Peter Adkison resigns from Wizards of the Coast.
February	The Wizards of the Coast Game Center closes down.
February	Last edition of TopDeck magazine
February, 2-4	Pro Tour Los Angeles. Won by Michael Pustilnik.
February, 5	Release of Planeshift.
February, 21	The Guru program is discontinued.
March, 16-18	Pro Tour Tokyo. Won by Zvi Mowshowitz.
April	First Magic content on Magicthegathering.com
April, 11	Release of Seventh Edition.
May, 4-6	Pro Tour Barcelona. Won by Kai Budde.
June, 4	Release of Apocalypse. The set doubled the amount of enemy colored gold cards in existence.
June, 21	Release of the Magic: The Gathering computer game created by Saga. Featuring the digital Sega Dreamcast Game Cards
August, 8-12	2001 World Championships in Toronto, Canada, won by Tom van de Logt. Team champions: United States of America.
September, 7-9	Pro Tour New York, won by team Phoenix Foundation (Kai Budde, Dirk Baberowski and Marco Blume).
October, 1	Release of Odyssey. Introduction of the tombstone icon.
October, 5-7	Magic Invitational in Capetown, South Africa. Won by Kai Budde.
November, 2-4	Pro Tour New Orleans, won by Kai Budde. Michelle Bush first female player to place in the top eight at an individual premier event.
December	Release of the 2001 World Championship Decks.
December	Release of the Deckmasters 2001 box set; two decks designed by Richard Garfield and Jon Finkel. Another precursor to the Duel Decks series and the Holiday Gift Box.
	Player of the Year: Kai Budde
	Rookie of the Year: Katsuhiro Mori

Publications

• Planeshift (February)
• Johan (April)
• Apocalypse (June)
• The Dragons of Magic (August)
• Odyssey (September)
• Jedit (December)
• Magic: The Gathering Official Encyclopedia - Volume 6

First involved

Wizards of the Coast

• Jay Moldenhauer-Salazar (writer)

R&D

• Brian Tinsman

Artists

Planeshift

• Peter Bollinger
• Ron Walotsky

Seventh Edition

• Alex Horley-Orlandelli
• James Bernardin
• John Gallagher
• Kunio Hagio
• Michael Koelsch
• Mike Sass
• Monte Michael Moore
• Patrick Faricy
• Tristan Elwell

Apocalypse

• Bob Petillo

Odyssey

• Jeff Remmer
• Justin Sweet
• Keith Garletts
• Rick Farrell