Magic: The Gathering World Championship - 2005 World Championship

2005 World Championship

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Katsuhiro Mori – 2005 World Championship
Ghazi Glare
Main Deck: Sideboard:

2 Yosei, The Morning Star
3 Arashi the Sky Asunder
1 Birds of Paradise
4 Selesnya Guildmage
4 Wood Elves
4 Loxodon Hierarch
3 Kodama of the North Tree
3 Llanowar Elves

3 Pithing Needle
3 Umezawa's Jitte
2 Congregation at Dawn
3 Glare of Subdual
2 Seed Spark

4 Vitu-Ghazi, The City Tree
4 Selesnya Sanctuary
1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
4 Brushland
5 Forest
4 Temple Garden
1 Plains

2 Greater Good
1 Kodama of the North Tree
2 Naturalize
2 Carven Caryatid
1 Seedborn Muse
1 Wrath of God
1 Kodama's Reach
2 Yosei, the Morning Star
3 Hokori, Dust Drinker

The twelfth World Championship was held from 30 November to 4 December at the Pacifico Yokohama in Yokohama, Japan. The tournament featured Standard on Wednesday, Ravnica Booster Draft on Thursday, and Extended on Friday. The team format was Ravnica Team Rochester Draft. The event began with the induction of the first class of the newly incepted Hall of Fame – Alan Comer, Jon Finkel, Tommi Hovi, Darwin Kastle, and Olle Råde.

287 players from 56 countries competed in the event. Katsuhiro Mori won the tournament, defeating Frank Karsten 3–1 in the final, taking home $35,000. The total prize money awarded to the top 64 finishers was $208,130. In the team final Japan defeated the United States 3–0.

Finishing Order
  1. Katsuhiro Mori
  2. Frank Karsten
  3. Tomohiro Kaji
  4. Akira Asahara
  5. Marcio Carvalho
  6. Ding Leong
  7. Shuhei Nakamura
  8. André Coimbra
Team final
  1. Japan – Takuma Morofuji, Ichirou Shimura, Masashi Oiso
  2. United States – Antonino De Rosa, Neil Reeves, Jonathan Sonne
Player of the Year Race
  1. Kenji Tsumura
  2. Olivier Ruel
  3. Masashi Oiso
Rookie of the Year
  1. Pierre Canali
Hall of Fame inductees
  • Jon Finkel
  • Darwin Kastle
  • Tommi Hovi
  • Alan Comer
  • Olle Råde

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