2018 World Magic Cup Invitation List
Each national team invited to the 2018 World Magic Cup will consist of the following players:
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The finalists* of the 2018 Nationals run in that country.
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The top ranked player at the conclusion of the 2017-2018 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 2017-18 Professional Points Season, or
- The tied player with the greatest number of Grand Prix Top 8 finishes during the 2017-18 Professional Points Season, or
- The tied player with the greatest number of match points from his or her best Pro Tour* finish during the 2017-18 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 2017-18 Professional Points Season, or
- The tied player with the highest Planeswalker Point total at the conclusion of the 2018 Seasonal Yearly Award Season.
*In the event a finalist in the 2018 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.
Country | Team Captain | National Champion | Runner Up |
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Argentina | Luis Salvatto | Bruno Lombardelli | Jair Farjat |
Australia | David Mines | Matthew Garnham | Benaya Lie |
Austria | Elias Klocker | Marc Mühlböck | Immanuel Gerschenson |
Belarus | Anton Volotovich | Nikolay Potovin | Evgeniy Zakharenkov |
Belgium | Pascal Vieren | Michel De Broux (passdown) | Michael Milis (passdown) |
Bolivia | Marco Vargas | Peter Concha | Jose Monje |
Brazil | Carlos Romão | João Lucas Caparroz | Fabrício Rodrigues |
Bulgaria | Hristiyan Ivanov | Miroslav Slavov | Emil Kalaydzhiev (passdown) |
Canada | Alexander Hayne | Adam Ragsdale (passdown) | Randall Barber (passdown) |
Chile | Patricio Roman | Miguel Veloso | Alvaro Fuenzalida |
China | Liu Yuchen | Xu Ming | Song Long |
Chinese Taipei | Chih-Cheng Yeh | Yu Hung Yi | Hung Hsun Hao |
Colombia | Camilo Urrego | Juan David Garcia Rodríguez | Camilo Niño |
Costa Rica | Carlos Pal | Jun Rong Feng | Rodolfo Nunez |
Croatia | Vjeran Horvat | Ilko Getaldic | Kosta Bovan |
Cyprus | Daniel Antoniou | Simos Xalaris | George Pericleous |
Czech Republic | Martin Jůza | Tomas Hanousek | Martin Hrycej |
Denmark | Simon Nielsen | Rasmus Roth | Oscar Christensen |
Dominican Republic | Jose Alvarez | Gregory Medina (passdown) | Victor Nicolas (passdown) |
Ecuador | Francisco Miranda (passdown) | Claudio Trucido | Juan Rizzo |
El Salvador | Robert Castro | Kevin Aguilar | Juan Salazar |
England | Francesco Giorgio | Autumn Burchett | Chris Orchard |
Estonia | Karl Sarap | Ahti Siirand | Mikk Kaasik |
Finland | Matti Kuisma | Roope Metsä | Lauri Pispa |
France | Jean-Emmanuel Depraz | Arnaud Hocquemiller | Timothée Jammot |
Germany | Christian Hauck | Marc Tobiasch | David Joachim |
Greece | Makis Matsoukas | Franck Pappas | Michalis Foukarakis |
Guatemala | Kevin Perez | Jeff Melgar | Rubén Escobar |
Honduras | Klisman Lopez | Jose Icaza | Francisco Jose Mejia Morales (passdown) |
Hong Kong | Lee Shi Tian | Alexander Dadyko | Wu Kon Fai (passdown) |
Hungary | Akos Kenyeres | Gabor Kocsis | Norbert Sárkány (passdown) |
Iceland | Sigtryggur Óskar Hrafnkelsson | Ragnar Sigurdsson | Vilhjálmur Thorhallson |
Indonesia | Christian Wijaya | Gregorius Winata | Ray Lee |
Ireland | David Murphy | Josh O'Mahony | Carlos Navarro del Dujo |
Israel | Shahar Shenhar | Amit Etgar | Yuval Zuckerman |
Italy | Andrea Mengucci | Tian fa Mun | Mattia Basilico |
Japan | Ken Yukuhiro | Moriyama Masahide | Naoya Nanba |
Latvia | Gints Dreimanis | Viktors Kazanskis (passdown) | Kirils Obuks (passdown) |
Lithuania | Gabrielius Kaklauskas (passdown) | Marijus Jonas Lukosevicius | Dominykas Beistaras |
Luxembourg | Steve Hatto | Fernando Pensieri | Tamas Repa |
Macedonia | Vladimir Trajcevski | Petar Georgiev | Samoil Petreski |
Malaysia | Joe Soh | Hang Sheng Kwang | Yong Kayne |
Malta | Anton Morgenstern | Adam Brincat | Daniel Camilleri |
Mexico | Marcelino Freeman | Dagoberto Silva | Daniel Becerra |
Netherlands | Thomas Hendriks | Daan Pruijt | Tijmen Blankevoort |
New Zealand | Jason Chung | Dan McKay | Christian Lee |
Northern Ireland | Simon Carmichael | Adrian Donnelly | Dean Convery |
Norway | Sveinung Bjørnerud | Ada Ravn | Tore Johan Sørum |
Panamá | Jaime Soriano Salazar | Oscar Ramirez | Jorge Tavera |
Paraguay | Andoni Astigarraga | Eduardo Filippi | Joao Motta |
Peru | Francisco Sifuentes | Guillermo Loli | Julio Bejarano |
Philippines | Jan Ang | Reynald Abella | Carl Caspe (passdown) |
Poland | Grzegorz Kowalski | Radek Kaczmarczyk | Maciej Dolata |
Portugal | Márcio Carvalho | Tiago Fonseca | Diogo Galvão |
Puerto Rico | Jose R Neris | Jonathan Vale | Luis Prieto |
Romania | Raul Porojan | Mircea Posoiu | Bogdan Raducan |
Russian Federation | Dmitriy Butakov | Evgenii Dushinin | Denis Andreichikov |
Scotland | Dani Anderson | Holt Hauser | Stephen Murray |
Serbia | Aleksa Telarov | David Gutesa (passdown) | Dragan Tancic (passdown) |
Singapore | Kelvin Chew | Tan Chin Heng | Teng Kong Chong |
Slovakia | Ivan Floch | Milan Niznansky | Richard Hornansky |
Slovenia | Robin Dolar | Matic Penko | Mario Smerc |
South Africa | Kaloyan Petkov | Theuns Prinsloo | David Reinecke |
South Korea | Nam Sung Wook | Han Hojae (passdown) | Seok Hyun Kim |
Spain | Javier Dominguez | Toni Ramis Pascual | Alexander Callado |
Sweden | Joel Larsson | Vidar Hesselman (passdown) | David Bagstevold (passdown) |
Switzerland | Andreas Ganz | Michael Hitz | Ivo Grossholz |
Thailand | Thirawat Chaovarindr | Teerawish Kotesiri | Aekarash Sorakup |
Turkey | Yusuf Kemal Vefa | Yagiz Akgun | Aras Senyuz (passdown) |
Ukraine | Oleksii Riabokon | Andrey Pochekuev | Mike Krasnitski |
United States | Seth Manfield | Dylan Brown | Justin Andrus |
Uruguay | Mauricio López | Ricardo Menendez | Juan Pablo Waszuk |
Venezuela | Humberto Patarca | Francisco Rangel | Pedro Clavijo |
Wales | Sam Rolph | James Morgan-Foley (passdown) | Morgan Payne (passdown) |