2024 World Championship

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. 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 $. 113 of them registered a deck.
===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
*
The Regional Champions (Qualified runner-ups in brackets)
 	Europe 	Brazil 	South America 	Central America 	USA 	(East) Canada 	West Canada 	ANZ 	South-East Asia	Japan 	China 	Taiwan
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).
==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.
==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 <c>Leyline of Resonance</c> tricks deck, the build thought to be obsolete compared to the <c>Innkeeper's Talent</c> build. He was trailed by five players at 6-1, including multi-time Champion Seth Manfield and perennial runner-up Márcio Carvalho.
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.
==Top 8==
Manfield and Dominguez went head-to-head in the semifinals after both had won their quarters, Manfield dispatching Budde in the process.
In the end, Javier Domínguez and Márcio Carvalho, both made their third World Championship finals with Domínguez ending victorious. 
==References==
Category:World Championships
Category:2024