2009 World Championships

The Magic 2009 World Championships took place on 19–22 November 2009 at the Palazzo Dei Congressi in Rome, Italy.
==Description==
The tournament featured six rounds of Standard play on Thursday, two Zendikar Booster Drafts with three rounds of Swiss each on Friday, six rounds of Extended on Saturday and the finals on Sunday. Also, the national teams played two rounds of Team Constructed each on Thursday and Saturday with the Top 4 teams advancing to the single elimination finals on Sunday. The team format was 3 Person Team Constructed with one player playing Standard, one Extended, and one Legacy.
409 players from 65 countries competed in the event. André Coimbra from Portugal won the tournament, thereby claiming the first prize of $45,000. In the team final, China defeated Austria to become the team champion. This was the first Magic Pro Tour event of any sort in which no player in the Top 8 was from the United States or Japan. It was also the first time a Pro Tour Top 8 consisted of players from eight different countries.
The Magic Online World Championship was held for the first time. It also took place in Rome at the site of the paper Magic World Championship. The players played three rounds each of Classic, Zendikar Booster Draft, and Standard on computers provided on the site. After nine rounds the two best players determined the title in a final match of Standard. Anssi Myllymäki from Finland defeated former Pro Player of the Year Shota Yasooka in the final, thus claiming the grand prize of $13,000. The other contestants won between $4,000 and $9,000.
==Finishing order==
Place	Player 	Prize 	Pro Points	Comment
1 	André Coimbra 	$45,000	25 	Second Pro Tour Top 8, first Portuguese to win a Pro Tour
2 	David Reitbauer 	$24,000	20 	
3 	Terry Soh 	$15,000	16 	Third Pro Tour Top 8
4 	Bram Snepvangers 	$14,000	16 	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
5 	William Cavaglieri	$11,000	12 	
6 	Manuel Bucher 	$10,500	12 	
7 	Marijn Lybaert 	$10,000	12 	Third Pro Tour Top 8
8 	Florian Pils 	$9,500 	12 	
==Team finals==
# China Wu Tong, Bo Li, Zhiyang Zhang
# Austria Benedikt Klauser, Benjamin Rozhon, Bernhard Lehner
# Czech Republic Lukas Jaklovsky, Lukas Blohon, Jan Kotrla
# Netherlands Kevin Grove, Niels Noorlander, Tom van Lamoen
==Winning deck==
<d title="André Coimbra - 2009 World Championship - Naya Lightsaber">
Planeswalkers
3 Ajani Vengeant
Creatures
4 Baneslayer Angel
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Ranger of Eos
1 Scute Mob
4 Wild Nacatl
4 Woolly Thoctar
Instants
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Path to Exile
Lands
4 Arid Mesa
4 Forest
3 Mountain
1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
4 Plains
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Sunpetal Grove
Sideboard
1 Ajani Vengeant
2 Burst Lightning
4 Celestial Purge
4 Goblin Ruinblaster
4 Great Sable Stag
</d>
==References==
==External links==
*Worlds 2009 coverage
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Category:2009