2013 World Magic Cup

The 2013 World Magic Cup, the second World Magic Cup, was held on 2–4 August 2013 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It featured 71 different national teams, the same as the first WMC. The event was won by the French national team, lead by Hall of Famer Raphaël Lévy; the final match against Hungary was famously won by a topdecked <c>Rakdos's Return</c> from Timothée Simonot.
==Format and schedule==
The 2013 World Magic Cup featured three formats: Return to Ravnica block Team Sealed, Magic 2014 Team Sealed, and Team Unified Standard. Team Sealed is a variation of Sealed deck where the team shares a pool of twelve Booster packs, which is used to build three 40-card decks. Team Unified Standard differs from regular Standard in that all three team decks must not include more than four copies of any given card (other than basic lands). In both formats, teams played against opposing national teams, with the winning team being the first to win two matches (each match being best-of-three-games).
With the exception of team only having 3 members, all teams must switch one member in between the Sealed and Standard Portion of the event on both Day 1 and Day 2.
Day 1 - Friday, 2 August
* 3 rounds of Magic 2014 Team Sealed
* 4 rounds of Team Unified Standard
Day 1 was seven rounds of Swiss play, with the top 32 teams at the end of the day advancing to Day 2 of competition.
Day 2 - Saturday, 3 August
* 3 rounds of Return to Ravnica block Team Sealed
* 3 rounds of Team Unified Standard
On Day 2, teams were divided, according to their standing within the event (seeding), into eight groups of four teams each, where each team played every other team in the group once, the format being Return to Ravnica block Team Sealed. The top two teams in each group advanced; if two or more teams were tied, the team(s) with the highest seed advanced. The teams were then divided again, according to their standing within the event, into four groups of four teams each, where each team played every other team in the group once, the format being Team Unified Standard. The top two teams in each group advanced to Day 3 of competition; if two or more teams are tied, the team(s) with the highest seed advanced.
Day 3 - Sunday, 4 August
* Quarterfinals, semifinals and final, featuring Team Unified Standard
The top eight teams then competed in a seeded (based on total number of points from Day 1 and Day 2), single-elimination bracket.
==Day 1==
The top eight teams after day one:
Rank	Country 	Points
1 	Ireland 	19
2 	Singapore 	18
3 	United States	16
4 	France 	16
5 	Austria 	16
6 	Australia 	16
7 	Mexico 	15
8 	Chile 	15
==Day 2==
===First round of pool play===
{| class="wikitable" width=300p	 	 	
Rank	Country 	Points	Seed
1 	Ireland 	6 	1
2 	Estonia 	6 	16
3 	Croatia 	3 	17
4 	Malaysia	3 	32
{| class="wikitable" width=300p	 	 	
Rank	Country 	Points	Seed
1 	Austria 	9 	5
2 	Hungary 	3 	12
3 	England 	3 	21
4 	El Salvador	3 	28
===Second round of pool play===
{| class="wikitable" width=300p	 	 	
Rank	Country	Points	Seed
1 	Estonia	9 	9
2 	Hungary	6 	16
3 	Ireland	3 	1
4 	Belarus	0 	8
==Day 3==
Place	Country 	Player 	Prize 	Pro Points	Place	Country 	Player 	Prize 	Pro Points
1 	France 	Raphaël Lévy 	$12,000	8 	5 	Austria 	Thomas Holzinger 	$2,000	5
1 	France 	Timothée Simonot 	$12,000	8 	5 	Austria 	David Reitbauer 	$2,000	5
1 	France 	Yann Guthmann 	$12,000	8 	5 	Austria 	Manuel Danninger 	$2,000	5
1 	France 	Stephane Soubrier 	$12,000	8 	5 	Austria 	Marc Mühlböck 	$2,000	5
2 	Hungary 	Tamás Nagy 	$6,500 	7 	6 	Estonia 	Hannes Kerem 	$2,000	5
2 	Hungary 	Gabor Kocsis 	$6,500 	7 	6 	Estonia 	Rauno Raidma 	$2,000	5
2 	Hungary 	Ervin Hosszú 	$6,500 	7 	6 	Estonia 	Simon Robberts 	$2,000	5
2 	Hungary 	Adorjan Korbl 	$6,500 	7 	6 	Estonia 	Mikk Kaasik 	$2,000	5
3 	Czech Republic	Stanislav Cifka 	$4,000 	6 	7 	New Zealand	Walker MacMurdo 	$2,000	5
3 	Czech Republic	Leos Kopecky 	$4,000 	6 	7 	New Zealand	Jingwei Zheng 	$2,000	5
3 	Czech Republic	Kristian Janda 	$4,000 	6 	7 	New Zealand	Digby Carter 	$2,000	5
3 	Czech Republic	Michal Mendl 	$4,000 	6 	7 	New Zealand	Jason Chung 	$2,000	5
4 	Iceland 	Alvin Orri Gislason	$4,000 	6 	8 	Belgium 	Vincent Lemoine 	$2,000	5
4 	Iceland 	Ragnar Sigurdsson 	$4,000 	6 	8 	Belgium 	Emmanuel Delvigne	$2,000	5
4 	Iceland 	Hedinn Haraldsson 	$4,000 	6 	8 	Belgium 	Marijn Lybaert 	$2,000	5
4 	Iceland 	Orri Ómarsson 	$4,000 	6 	8 	Belgium 	Xavier Vantyghem 	$2,000	5
==External links==
*2013 World Magic Cup coverage
*2013 World Magic Cup final standings
*Top 16 Team Unified Standard decklists
*2013 World Magic Cup invitation list
*Video coverage playlist
==References==
Category:World Magic Cups
Category:2013