1995 World Championships

The 1995 World Championships for Magic: The Gathering, the second Magic World Championship, were held on 4–6 August at the Red Lion Inn Seattle Airport Hotel in Seattle, USA between August 5–7 1995.
==Description==
This was the first World Championship that was invite-only, and the first that included a team portion. It was a three-day tournament featuring 71 players from 19 countries. The players played ten rounds – five rounds of Sealed deck and five rounds of Standard – where points were awarded for each game win rather than match win. This was also the first tournament where players weren't allowed to change their Constructed deck between the Swiss rounds and the elimination rounds. In the final, the relatively unheralded Swiss player, Alexander Blumke, defeated France's Marc Hernandez 3–2.
==Finishing order==
# Alexander Blumke
# Marc Hernandez
# Mark Justice
# Henry Stern
# Ivan Curina
# Andrea Redi
# Henri Schildt
# Mu Luen Wang
===Team World Championship===
The Team World Championship ended as follows:
# United States – Mark Justice, Henry Stern, Peter Leiher, Mike Long
# Finland – Rosendahl, Henry Schildt, Kimmo Hovi, Punakallio
# Australia – Glen Shanley, Chris Hudson, Russell, Liew
# France – Marc Hernandez, Moulin, Woirgard, Lebas
==Winning deck==
<d title="Alexander Blumke - 1995 World Championship">
1 Disrupting Scepter
2 Icy Manipulator
3 The Rack
2 Zuran Orb
3 Dance of the Dead
1 Dark Banishing
4 Dark Ritual
4 Hymn to Tourach
3 Hypnotic Specter
1 Mind Twist
1 Pestilence
1 Royal Assassin
2 Sengir Vampire
2 Terror
1 Power Sink
1 Balance
3 Disenchant
1 Land Tax
1 Spirit Link
1 Swords to Plowshares
Lands
3 Adarkar Wastes
1 Bottomless Vault
4 Mishra's Factory
3 Plains
1 Strip Mine
12 Swamp
1 Underground River
Sideboard
1 Circle of Protection: Artifacts
1 Circle of Protection: Black
2 Circle of Protection: Red
1 Land Tax
1 Prismatic Ward
4 Gloom
2 Stromgald Cabal
1 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Magical Hack
1 Sleight of Mind
</d>
==References==
Category:1995