Magic: The Gathering World Championship - 1997 World Championship

1997 World Championship

Jakub Slemr – 1997 World Championship
Main Deck: Sideboard:

4 Black Knight
4 Choking Sands
4 Contagion
4 Fallen Askari
4 Knight of Stromgald
1 Necratog
4 Nekrataal
2 Shadow Guildmage
4 Man-o-War
2 Uktabi Orangutan
2 Earthquake
4 Incinerate

3 City of Brass
3 Gemstone Mine
2 Sulfurous Springs
10 Swamp
1 Underground River
3 Undiscovered Paradise

2 Disenchant
1 Exile
1 Honorable Passage
3 Pyroblast
2 Dystopia
2 Ebony Charm
2 Forsaken Wastes
2 Hydroblast

The fourth Magic World Championship was held on 13–17 August 1997 in Seattle, USA. 153 players competed in the event. It was the first Magic tournament to be filmed by ESPN2. The competition featured Standard, Mirage-Visions-Weatherlight Rochester Draft, and Extended.

Final standings

  1. Jakub Slemr
  2. Janosch Kühn
  3. Paul McCabe
  4. Svend Geertsen
  5. Gabriel Tsang
  6. Nikolai Weibull
  7. Nate Clark
  8. John Chinnock
Team final
  1. Canada – Gary Krakower, Michael Donais, Ed Ito, Gabriel Tsang
  2. Sweden – Nikolai Weibull, Mattias Jorstedt, Marcus Angelin, Johan Cedercrantz
Pro Tour Player of the Year
  1. Paul McCabe
  2. Terry Borer


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