2018 World Championship Preview!!

The biggest and best weekend of Magic year, is about to be coming your way. Today, we will give you a preview of what is to come! There will be an individual world championship, and a team world championship.

1. The Players

Individual:

24 of the best players in the world will be competing over 14 rounds, to get to a top 4 cut.

Pro Tour Winners

PT Ixalan: Seth Manfield

PT Rivals of Ixalan: Luis Salvatto

PT Dominaria: Wyatt Darby

PT 25th Anniversary: Greg Orange, Allen Wu, and Ben Hull

Draft Master: Elias Watsfeldt

Constructed Master: Matthew Severa

Geo-Regional Winners

North America: Seth Manfield

Europe: Marcio Carvalho

Asia-Pacific: Ken Yukihiro

Latin America: Luis Salvatto

At-Large Top Pro Point Earners

Reid Duke (U.S)

Owen Turtenwald(U.S)

Ben Stark(U.S)

John Rolf(U.S)

Martin Juza(Czech Republic)

Grzegorz Kowalski(Poland)

Javier Dominguez(Spain)

Andrea Mengucci(Italy)

Shahar Shenhar(Israel)

Gerry Thompson(U.S)

Brad Nelson(U.S)

Brian Braun Duin(U.S)

Mike Sigrist(U.S)

Matt Nass(U.S)

Team:

Hareruya Latin: Lucas Esper Berthoud, Márcio Carvalho, Sebastian Pozzo, Carlos Romão, Luis Salvatto, and Thiago Saporito

The Ultimate Guard Pro Team: Andrew Cuneo, Reid Duke, Jon Finkel, William Jensen, Paul Rietzl, and Owen Turtenwald

2. The Formats

Individual:

The format will be 3 rounds of draft and 4 rounds of standard for day 1. For day 2, it will be the same, but a cut to top 4. Sunday will be the top 4 playoff best 3 out of 5 games.

Team:

The format will be team sealed using Guilds of Ravnica. The team champion will have to win 2 out of 3 matches.

That's all from us, but this tournament is going to me a lot of fun, don't forget to check it out at twitch.tv/magic !

-MM