2017 World Magic Cup Invitation List
Each national team invited to the 2017 World Magic Cup will consist of the following players:
- The top ranked player at the conclusion of the 2016-2017 Professional Points Season from that country that is not already invited based on the above criteria. If two or more players are tied, ties will be broken as follows:
- The tied player with the greatest number of Pro Tour Top 8* finishes during the 2016-17 Professional Points Season, or
- The tied player with the greatest number of Grand Prix Top 8 finishes during the 2016-17 Professional Points Season, or
- The tied player with the greatest number of match points from his or her best Pro Tour* finish during the 2016-17 Professional Points Season, or
- The tied player with the greatest number of match points in his or her best individual-format Grand Prix finish during the 2016-17 Professional Points Season, or
- The tied player with the highest point total at the conclusion of the 2016 Seasonal Yearly Award Season.
- The finalists* of the 2017 Nationals run in that country.
*In the event a finalist in the 2017 Nationals run in a country is also the team captain for that country, the invitation will pass down to the person who placed third at that country’s Nationals.
Note: The Magic: The Gathering World Championship and the World Magic Cup are not Pro Tour events.
All invitations are subject to the requirements limitations set forth in the Magic Premier Event Invitation Policy.
Please note: Teams are not yet final.
Team captains with an asterisk next to their name finished in 1st or 2nd at their country's Nationals. In the event of this, the other finalist from that country is listed under the National Champion column, and the 3rd place finisher is in the Nationals finalist column.
World Magic Cup Team Members
| Country | Team Captain | National Champion | Nationals Finalist |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | David Mines | Matthew Sherlock | Ryan Cubit |
| Belgium | Peter Vieren | Kristof Van Holsbeeck | Geoffrey Siron |
| Bolivia | David Sologuren | Mauricio Barrera | Mauricio Flores Pauletti |
| Bulgaria | Hristiyan Ivanov | Nikola Rashkov | Angel Pastarmadzhiev |
| China | Liu Yuchen | Lu Chao | Gao Tan |
| Czech Republic | Martin Jůza | Tomas Langer | Tomas Jirkal |
| Denmark | Martin Müller | Bjarke Larsen | Andreas Bendix Nielsen |
| Ecuador | Daniel López | Juan Fernando Maldonado | Francisco Miranda |
| El Salvador | Josue Loucel | Javier Morales | Rodrigo Portillo |
| Finland | Matti Kuisma | Mikko Airaksinen | Ari Hämäläinen |
| France | Pierre Dagen | Alain Bardini | Yann Teoh |
| Germany | Marc Tobiasch | Philipp Krieger | Moritz Templin |
| Hungary | Gabor Kocsis | Támas Nagy | Ferenc Nagy |
| Japan | Yuuya Watanabe | Kenta Harane | Shota Yasooka |
| Lithuania | Gaudenis Vidugiris | Gabrielius Kaklauskas | Domantas Zavadzkis |
| Northern Ireland | Dean Convery | Desmond James Carson | Simon Carmichael |
| Paraguay | Oscar Mathias Bachmann | Andoni Astigarraga | Arturo Bobadilla Gómez |
| Portugal | Márcio Carvalho | Ricardo Beja | João Morais |
| Scotland | Bradley Barclay | Stephen Murray | Duncan Tang |
| Slovenia | Robin Dolar | Gregor Casar | Anze Jeromel |
| Sweden | Joel Larsson | Mathias Thorgren | Joakim Heining |
| Thailand | Sakditat Kwanchaitunya | Chitipat Tantiyanon | Thirawat Chaovarindr |
| Ukraine | Oleksii Riabokon | Iuyii Babych | Peter Hritsenchuk |
| Argentina | Luis Salvatto* | Pedro de Diego | Ariel Nagy |
| Austria | Oliver Polak-Rottmann | Elias Klocker | Adrian Johann Schrenk |
| Belarus | Pavel Miadzvedski | Anton Volotovich | Alexander Buslavsky |
| Brazil | Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa | Carlos Romao | Lucas Esper Berthoud |
| Canada | Eduardo Sajgalik | Kale Thompson | Lucas Siow |
| Chile | Patricio Roman | Alfonso Concha | Miguel Veloso |
| Chinese Taipei | Huang Hao-Shan | Chun Bo Ruad | Jhang Jheng Yu |
| Colombia | Camilo Niño | Santiago Hernandez | Camilo Urrego |
| Costa Rica | Marino Donato | Enrique Mauricio Culligan Aguero | Glen Calvo Camacho |
| Croatia | Vjeran Horvat | Vladimir Ivanovic | Toni Portolan |
| Cyprus | Daniel Antoniou | Nicolas Papadopoulos | Tatsiana Suponeva |
| Dominican Republic | Caupolican Lopez Yapor | Jose Alvarez | Diego Velazquez |
| England | Niels Molle | Autumn Burchett | Ross Broxup |
| Estonia | Karl Sarap | Raul Kask | Pierre Vendelboe |
| Greece | Makis Matsoukas | Lefteris Kotsialis | Ioannis Kountouris |
| Guatemala | Fernando Jose Juarez Oliva | Jose Andrés | Kevin Perez |
| Hong Kong | Yam Wing Chun | Andy Chan | Hok Chun Anson Wong |
| Iceland | Ragnar Sigurdsson | Sigtryggur Óskar Hrafnkelsson | Heimir Palmason |
| Indonesia | Aziz Riphat | Ebnu Suryadhi | Billy Nugraha |
| Ireland | Michele Gravina | David Murphy | David Wolfe |
| Israel | Shahar Shenhar | Yuval Shai | Philip Korsunsky |
| Italy | Andrea Mengucci | Adriano Moscato | Mattia Rizzi |
| Latvia | Andrejs Prost | Igor Ralovec | Viktors Kazanskis |
| Luxembourg | Steve Hatto | Tamas Repa | Denis Skornik |
| Macedonia | Miro Popov | Dimche Melovski | Vladimir Trajcevski |
| Malaysia | Joe Soh | Wee Pang Ming | Adwin Lim |
| Malta | Ayrton Micallef* | Anton Morgenstern | Brendon Spiteri |
| Mexico | Marcelino Freeman | Emmanuel Ramirez Sanchez | Jose Daniel Garcia Rosas |
| Netherlands | Thomas Hendriks | Kevin Grove | Daan Pruijt |
| New Zealand | Jason Chung | Yida Guo | Nathan Samu |
| Norway | Andreas Isaksson | Simen Skrede Reigstad | Thomas Madland |
| Panamá | Manuel Succari | Saul Alvarado | Jaime Soriano Salazar |
| Peru | Francisco Sifuentes | Diego Hurtado Sanchez | Marco Sakugawua |
| Philippines | Mike Hron | Philip Rama | Jan Ang |
| Poland | Grzegorz Kowalski | Radek Kaczmarczyk | Piotr Glogowski |
| Puerto Rico | Adrian Marquez | Danilo Prieto | Jean Baez |
| Romania | Valentin Roman | Lucian Benca | Rares-Glad Colomei |
| Russian Federation | Alexey Shashov | Evgeny Schetka | Leonid Grigorenko |
| Serbia | Aleksa Telarov | Milos Perovic | Goran Begovic |
| Singapore | Kelvin Chew | Lim Zhong Yi | David Lim |
| Slovakia | Ivan Floch | Peter Snoha | Ondrej Kedrovic |
| South Africa | Keraan Chetty | Kaloyan Petkov | Tariq Solomon |
| South Korea | Nam Sung Wook | Cho Jeong Woo | Jung Ga Ram |
| Spain | Javier Dominguez | Daniel Martinez Querol | Pedro Lechado |
| Switzerland | Andreas Ganz | Simon Leigh | Marko Milivojevic |
| Turkey | Yusuf Kemal Vefa | Caner Aktas | Can Tanyol |
| United States | Reid Duke | Oliver Tomajko | Gerry Thompson |
| Uruguay | Leandro Cabrera | Christian Alico | Mauricio López |
| Venezuela | Humberto Patarca | Daniel Fior | Felipe Cuenod |
| Wales | Philip Griffiths | Sam Rolph | Aaron Boyhan |