2006 World Championships

The Magic 2006 World Championships were held from 29 November – 3 December 2006 at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France. 
==Description==
The tournament featured Standard on Wednesday, Time Spiral Booster Draft on Thursday, and Extended on Friday. The team format was Time Spiral Team Rochester Draft.
The winner of this tournament was Makihito Mihara, who defeated Ryou Ogura 3–0 in an all-Japanese final. He piloted a combo deck based on <c>Dragonstorm</c>. It was the first time players from the same country had been World Champion in back-to-back seasons. The Netherlands defeated Japan 2–0 in the team final. The total prize money awarded to the top 75 finishers was $255,245.
==Finishing order==
# Makihito Mihara
# Ryou Ogura
# Nicholas Lovett
# Gabriel Nassif
# Paulo Carvalho
# Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
# Tiago Chan
# Katsuhiro Mori
==Team final==
# Netherlands – Kamiel Cornelissen, Julien Nuijten, Robert Van Medevoort
# Japan – Katsuhiro Mori, Shuhei Yamamoto, Hidenori Katayama
==Winning deck==
<d title="Makihito Mihara - 2006 World Championship - Dragonstorm">
Creatures
4 Bogardan Hellkite
2 Hunted Dragon
Sorceries
4 Dragonstorm
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Rite of Flame
Instants
4 Telling Time
4 Seething Song
4 Gigadrowse
4 Remand
Artifacts
4 Lotus Bloom
Lands
1 Dreadship Reef
1 Calciform Pools
8 Island
4 Steam Vents
4 Mountain
4 Shivan Reef
Sideboard
2 Dreadship Reef
1 Calciform Pools
1 Trickbind
3 Pyroclasm
3 Ignorant Bliss
4 Repeal
1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
</d>
==Coverage==
*Worlds 2006 coverage
==References==
Category:2006