Magic: The Gathering World Championship 31 will take place near Seattle in Bellevue, WA, USA, on December 5–7, 2025. This event will not be run at MagicCon and will not be open to the public.

Magic World Championship 31 formats:

• Magic: The Gathering® | Avatar: The Last Airbender™ Booster Draft
• Standard Constructed

Official hashtag: #WC31

Location

Meydenbauer Center
11100 NE 6th Avenue
Bellevue, WA 98004
USA

Invited Competitors

Magic World Championship 31 is an invitation-only tournament. Invitations to Magic World Championship 31 are awarded as follows:

• The Top 8 finishers at Magic World Championship 30
• Competitors that finished with 36 or more match points at the end of the Swiss rounds or the Top 8 finishing competitors (whichever is greater) in each Pro Tour in the 2024–2025 Season
• The Top 2 finishers from each Regional Championship from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan regions in the 2024–2025 season
• The top finisher from each Regional Championship from all other regions in the 2024–2025 season
• The Top 2 finishers from each Arena Championship designated to award invitations to World Championship 31
• The Top 2 finishers from each Magic Online Champions Showcase designated to award invitations to World Championship 31
• The Top 32 ranked competitors that are not already invited to World Championship 31 in the Pro Tour Edge of Eternities Adjusted Match Point standing and all players tied with 32nd place in that standing
• Competitors that are otherwise invited to Magic World Championship 31

The Magic World Championship 31 invitation list is available online. If you believe you are an invited competitor but are not on the invitation list, please email PremierPlay@wizards.com.

Competitor Information

Decklists

Standard decklists will be due in MTGMelee.gg on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. (Bellevue/Seattle local time). To see the equivalent time where you are located, click here.

During the Standard rounds, opponents' decklists will be available for viewing on MTGMelee.gg on your mobile device. Competitors can only access the decklists of other competitors prior to the start of a game or in between games. Competitors cannot reference decklists during games.

During the Booster Draft rounds, only competitors from the featured draft table will have access to their opponent's decklist. These will be paper checklists.

Pro Tour Operation Hours

The estimated hours of operation for Magic World Championship 31 are:

• Friday and Saturday: The World Championship area opens at 8:00 a.m. and closes at the end of the last Swiss round.
• Sunday: The World Championship area opens at 8:00 a.m. and closes at 6:00 p.m.

Registration

In-person registration takes place from 5:00–8:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 6, 2025, at a location to be determined (details will be communicated to competitors at a later date). If you are unable to attend this registration session on Thursday, late registration will be available Friday morning from 8:00–8:30 a.m.

Even though competitors will have registered for the tournament on MTGMelee prior to Thursday, competitors must still register on site to confirm they are in Bellevue, undergo an ID check, and receive their complementary Pro Tour gifts.

For in-person registration, all competitors must present one of the following forms of identification:

• A driver's license; or
• A passport; or
• A copy of a birth certification and photo ID (school IDs are acceptable)

Tournament Information

The Magic: The Gathering Tournament Rules and Infraction & Penalty Guide are in effect for this tournament unless specifically overruled by information in this section.

Structure (Swiss Rounds)

• Friday: Three (3) rounds of Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender Booster Draft, followed by four (4) rounds of Standard Constructed
• Saturday: Three (3) rounds of Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender Booster Draft, followed by four (4) rounds of Standard Constructed
• Fourteen (14) Swiss Rounds total, 50 minutes per round
• All competitors may participate in all seven (7) Swiss rounds of Friday's competition.
• Competitors with twelve (12) or more match points after Round 7 will advance to Saturday's portion of the competition.
• Whenever a competitor reaches the designated number of match wins before Round 14, they immediately advance to the Top 8 playoff and will be removed from future pairings in Swiss rounds. The designated number of match wins will be determined the week of December 1, 2025.
• Competitors in the Top 8 playoff will be seeded in order from 1st through 8th. Seeding is determined by the following:
  • The round in which a competitor received their designated number of match wins
  • Their OMW%, GW%, and OGW% as of the round in which they receive their designated number of match wins
• Seeding for the Top 8 playoff is locked after each round in which a competitor reaches their designated number of match wins.
• The Top 8 competitors after Round 14 will advance to Sunday's single-elimination playoff rounds.

Structure (Playoff Rounds)

• Playoff rounds will use a traditional, single-elimination bracket.
• Playoff rounds will run in the Standard Constructed format.
• All playoff matches will be best three out of five. The first two games played in each playoff match are pre-sideboard games. After Game 2 is complete, competitors may exchange cards from their deck for cards in their sideboard.
• Standings after the Swiss rounds are used to determine final order in the standings for losing competitors in the quarterfinal and semifinal playoff rounds.
• While there are no time limits in the playoff rounds, competitors are expected to play at a reasonable pace and finish their matches within 90 minutes.
• For the first game of each match in the playoff rounds, the competitor that finished higher in the Swiss rounds chooses either to play first or to play second. For subsequent games in each playoff match, the usual play/draw rule applies (loser of the previous game decides whether to play first in the next game).

Schedule

Other Items

• Rules Enforcement Level: Professional.
• Competitors must use the same Standard deck for Day One, Day Two, and the Top 8 playoff.
• Competitors are responsible for knowing all tournament rules.

Prizes

Competitors that finish in the Top 8 will receive invitations to each Pro Tour and the World Championship in the 2025–2026 Season.

Competitors that finish in 9th through 24th place will receive an invitation to Pro Tour Lorwyn Eclipsed in Richmond, USA.

There is a $1,000,000 prize pool, which is awarded to competitors based on their final standing in the tournament. All prizes are displayed in US dollars. Prizes are subject to change.

Prizes for the Top 8 finishers are awarded as follows. All competitors will receive at least $4,000 regardless of the final placing. The complete, final prize chart will be announced the week of December 1, 2025.