2005 World Championships

The Magic 2005 World Championships were held from 30 November to 4 December at the Pacifico Yokohama in Yokohama, Japan. The tournament featured Standard on Wednesday, Ravnica: City of Guilds Booster Draft on Thursday, and Extended on Friday. The team format was Ravnica Team Rochester Draft. 287 players from 56 countries competed in the event. Katsuhiro Mori won the tournament, defeating Frank Karsten 3–1 in the final, taking home $35,000. The total prize money awarded to the top 64 finishers was $208,130. In the team final Japan defeated the United States 3–0.
==Finishing order==
# Katsuhiro Mori
# Frank Karsten
# Tomohiro Kaji
# Akira Asahara
# Marcio Carvalho
# Ding Leong
# Shuhei Nakamura
# André Coimbra
==Team final==
# Japan – Takuma Morofuji, Ichirou Shimura, Masashi Oiso
# United States – Antonino De Rosa, Neil Reeves, Jonathan Sonne
==Winning deck==
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Creatures
3 Arashi, the Sky Asunder
1 Birds of Paradise
3 Kodama of the North Tree
3 Llanowar Elves
4 Loxodon Hierarch
4 Selesnya Guildmage
4 Wood Elves
2 Yosei, the Morning Star
Instants
2 Congregation at Dawn
2 Seed Spark
Enchantments
3 Glare of Subdual
Artifacts
3 Pithing Needle
3 Umezawa's Jitte
Lands
4 Brushland
5 Forest
1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
1 Plains
4 Selesnya Sanctuary
4 Temple Garden
4 Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree
Sideboard
2 Carven Caryatid
2 Greater Good
3 Hokori, Dust Drinker
1 Kodama of the North Tree
1 Kodama's Reach
2 Naturalize
1 Seedborn Muse
1 Wrath of God
2 Yosei, the Morning Star
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==Coverage==
*Worlds 2005 coverage
==References==
Category:2005