2008 World Championships

The Magic 2008 World Championships took place on 11–14 December 2008 at the Memphis Cook Convention Center in Memphis, USA. 
==Description==
The tournament featured six rounds of Standard play on Thursday, two Shards of Alara 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. The top 75 individual finishers received $245,245 in prize money.
329 players from 57 countries competed in the event. Antti Malin from Finland won the tournament, thereby claiming the first prize of $45,000. In the team final the United States defeated Australia to become the team champion. 
==Finishing order==
Place	Player 	Prize 	Pro Points	Comment
1 	Antti Malin 	$45,000	25 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
2 	Jamie Parke 	$24,000	20 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
3 	Tsuyoshi Ikeda 	$15,000	16 	Third Pro Tour Top 8
4 	Hannes Kerem 	$14,000	16 	First Estonian in a Pro Tour Top 8
5 	Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa	$11,000	12 	Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
6 	Kenji Tsumura 	$10,500	12 	Sixth Pro Tour Top 8
7 	Frank Karsten 	$10,000	12 	Third Pro Tour Top 8
8 	Akira Asahara 	$9,500 	12 	Second Pro Tour Top 8
==Team finals==
# United States – Michael Jacob, Sam Black, Paul Cheon
# Australia – Aaron Nicastri, Brandon Lau, Justin Cheung
# Brazil – Willy Edel, Vagner Casatti, Luiz Guilherme de Michielli
# Japan – Yuuya Watanabe, Masashi Oiso, Akihiro Takakuwa
==Winning deck==
<d title="Antti Malin - 2008 World Championship - Faeries">
Creatures
4 Mistbind Clique
2 Sower of Temptation
4 Spellstutter Sprite
2 Vendilion Clique
Instants
4 Agony Warp
3 Broken Ambitions
4 Cryptic Command
3 Remove Soul
1 Terror
Sorceries
4 Thoughtseize
Enchantments
4 Bitterblossom
Lands
1 Faerie Conclave
6 Island
4 Mutavault
4 Secluded Glen
4 Sunken Ruins
2 Swamp
4 Underground River
Sideboard
4 Flashfreeze
2 Glen Elendra Archmage
4 Infest
2 Jace Beleren
1 Mind Shatter
1 Ponder
1 Sower of Temptation
</d>
==References==
==External links==
* Worlds 2008 coverage
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Category:2008