Magic: The Gathering World Championship - 2007 World Championship

2007 World Championship

(Complete Coverage)

Uri Peleg – 2007 World Championship
Doran Rock
Main Deck: Sideboard:

4 Birds of Paradise
4 Doran, the Siege Tower
1 Hypnotic Specter
3 Llanowar Elves
4 Ohran Viper
3 Shriekmaw
4 Tarmogoyf

2 Eyeblight's Ending
3 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Liliana Vess
2 Nameless Inversion
2 Profane Command
4 Thoughtseize

1 Brushland
3 Caves of Koilos
1 Forest
2 Gemstone Mine
4 Gilt-Leaf Palace
1 Horizon Canopy
4 Llanowar Wastes
1 Pendelhaven
4 Treetop Village
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

2 Cloudthresher
2 Loxodon Warhammer
2 Nath of the Gilt-Leaf
1 Oblivion Ring
3 Riftsweeper
2 Serrated Arrows
1 Shriekmaw
2 Stupor

The fourteenth Magic World Championship took place from 6–9 December 2007 at the Jacob K. Javits Center of New York in New York City, USA. The tournament featured five rounds of Standard and a Lorwyn Booster Draft on Thursday. Friday featured five rounds of Legacy and another Lorwyn Booster Draft. The team format was Lorwyn Two-Headed Giant Booster Draft. The top 64 individual finishers received $215,600 in prize money.

386 players from 61 countries competed in the event. The winner of the tournament was Uri Peleg, defeating Patrick Chapin 3–1 in the final. Katsuhiro Mori made the top 8 for the third consecutive year, while Gabriel Nassif made his third final eight within four Worlds. Coincidentally, each player mirrored their performance from the previous year (Mori was eliminated in the quarter-finals, Nassif in the semi-finals).

Finishing Order
  1. Uri Peleg
  2. Patrick Chapin
  3. Gabriel Nassif
  4. Koutarou Ootsuka
  5. Cristoph Huber
  6. Yoshitaka Nakano
  7. Katsuhiro Mori
  8. Roel van Heeswijk
Team final
  1. Switzerland – Nico Bohny, Manuel Bucher, Christoph Huber, Raphael Gennari
  2. Austria – Thomas Preyer, David Reitbauer, Stefan Stradner, Helmut Summersberger
Pro Tour Player of the Year
  1. Tomoharu Saitou
  2. Kenji Tsumura
  3. Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
Rookie of the Year
  1. Yuuya Watanabe
Hall of Fame inductees
  • Kai Budde
  • Zvi Mowshowitz
  • Tsuyoshi Fujita
  • Nicolai Herzog
  • Randy Buehler

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