2024 World Championship
| 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 |
Javier Dominguez  | |||
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The Magic: the Gathering 2024 World Championship, or Magic World Championship 30, was the 30th Magic World Championship and was 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] 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 were invited to compete for a prize pool of $1,000,000. 113 of them registered a deck.[2]
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 seasons.
- 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
| Cycle 1 | Cycle 2 | Cycle 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | Adrián Iñigo Tastet | Marco Del Pivo | Mateo Ferreira |
| Europe 2nd | Lars Henrichvark | Borja Yañez Carvajal | Ivan Errico |
| Brazil | William Araujo | Guilherme Merjam | Jonathan Lobo Melamed |
| South America | Guillermo Sulimovich | Guillermo Loli | Pedro Perrini |
| Central America | Edgar Rangel Paez | Dagoberto Silva | Erick Manuel Lopez Basulto |
| USA | Daniel Weiser | Minh Nguyen | Adam Weiss |
| USA 2nd | Mark Stanton | Aiden Lamson | Chris Barone |
| Canada | Ha Pham | Ulysse Gagnon Paradis | Liam Hoban |
| Canada 2nd | Boston Schatteman (West) | Patrick Wu | Asha Mills Emmett |
| ANZ | Brett Girvan | James Wilkes | Brennan Crawford |
| South-East Asia | Zer Shiuan Peng | Lucas Lim | Richie Ong |
| Japan | Kenta Masukado | Yoshihiko Ikawa^ | Kenta Harane |
| Japan 2nd | Yuya Hosokawa | Atsushi Nakashima | Rei Hirayama |
| China | Fu Yu | Muhan Yu | Jianwei Liang |
| Taiwan | Bor Hong Chen | Yeh Yun-Chen | 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).[3]
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.[4]
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 advanced 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. Pro Tour Modern Horizons 3 winner and leader for Player of the Year Simon Nielsen was the featured drafter, winning the pod with a Red-Black Sacrifice deck. He would end the day at the top of 5-2s.
Rotation dampened the multicolored manabases from previous years, bringing back two-color competitors and having Red Aggro being a top player for the first time in years. Reigning World Champion Jean-Emmanuel Depraz led the field with the explosive Leyline of Resonance tricks deck, the build thought to be obsolete compared to the Innkeeper's Talent build. He was trailed by five players at 6-1, including multi-time Champion Seth Manfield and perennial runner-up Márcio Carvalho.[5]
The top eight players after day one:
| Rank | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Jean-Emmanuel Depraz
|
21 |
| 2 |  Lucas Duchow
|
18 |
| 3 | Quinn Tonole
|
18 |
| 4 |  Márcio Carvalho
|
18 |
| 5 |  Ivan Errico
|
18 |
| 6 | Seth Manfield
|
18 |
| 7 |  Simon Nielsen
|
15 |
| 8 | Adam Weiss
|
15 |
Day 2
Depraz's 
draft didn't get a win, while Seth Manfield took the lead and pod with a 
deck. Simon Nielsen was the only player to be undefeated in Draft. Manfield would later be the first to secure his spot in Round 11, followed by Quinn Tonole in Round 12. In Round 13, Ha Pham defeated Lucas Duchow, Carvalho defeated Kai Budde, Javier Dominguez defeats Eli Kassis. In the final round, ten players vied for three spots: Budde defeated Depraz, Ikawa defeated Kassis, and Max Rappaport defeated Stefan Schutz. Duchow and Kenta Harane also got to 10 wins but made ninth and tenth.
At this juncture, Nielsen had been left behind in the Player of the Year race, with Dominguez and Manfield still active. Manfield leads by three points, which means Dominguez must make the finals at minimum to overtake.[6]
Top 8
Manfield and Dominguez went head-to-head in the semifinals after both had won their quarters, Manfield dispatching Budde in the process.[7]
In the end, Javier Domínguez and Márcio Carvalho, both made their third World Championship finals with Domínguez ending victorious.[8]
| Place | Player | Prize | Points | Standard deck | Duskmourn: House of Horror draft record |
Standard record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Javier Dominguez [9]
|
$100,000 | 42 | Dimir Demons | 5-1 | 5-2 |
| 2 | Márcio Carvalho
|
$50,000 | 39 | Golgari Midrange | 5-1 | 5-2 |
| 3 | Seth Manfield
|
$25,000 | 42 | Golgari Ramp | 5-1 | 5-0 |
| 4 | Quinn Tonole
|
$25,000 | 39 | Mono-Red Aggro | 4-2 | 6-0 |
| 5 |  Ha Pham
|
$20,000 | 33 | Dimir Demons | 5-1 | 5-2 |
| 6 |  Yoshihiko Ikawa
|
$20,000 | 30 | Dimir Midrange | 2-4 | 8-0 |
| 7 |  Kai Budde
|
$20,000 | 30 | Gruul Prowess | 4-2 | 6-2 |
| 8 | Max Rappaport
|
$20,000 | 30 | Dimir Demons | 5-1 | 5-3 |
References
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (November 17, 2023). "The 2024 MagicCon Schedule". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Frank Karsten (October 24, 2024). "Magic World Championship 30 Metagame Breakdown". 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.
- ↑ Corbin Hosler (October 26, 2024). "Magic World Championship 30 Day One Highlights". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Corbin Hosler (October 27, 2024). "Magic World Championship 30 Day Two Highlights". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Corbin Hosler (October 28, 2024). "Magic World Championship 30 Top 8 Highlights". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Corbin Hosler (October 28, 2024). "Magic World Championship 30 Finals Match". Magic.gg.
- ↑ Final results