2025 World Championship Top 8 Tournament

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On October 18th, 2025, the top 16 players from the 2025 WC Circuit were invited to compete for the opportunity to call themselves the World Champion.  The World Championship was divided into two phases, with the first Group Stage being a 6-round Swiss; the first 3 rounds were played using the PC-Fellowship format, and the final 3 were played using PC-Movie.  After the Swiss rounds, the top 8 players participated in a double-elimination knockout tournament, which used the same decks as the Group Stage.

This thread contains the replays used for all Top 8 games.  The decks themselves are unchanged from the Group Stage.  See here for the first 3 Group Stage rounds in PC-Fellowship.  See here for the final 3 Group Stage rounds in PC-Movie.



Games in the Upper Bracket were played using PC-Movie and games in the Lower Bracket were played in PC-Fellowship.  During the event, stephan77 needed to drop after his first victory in the first round.  It was ruled that his opponent m scarpato would remain in the Upper Bracket, but he would be eliminated if losing a second time.

Remember that all cards utilize PC Errata, even if the non-errata'd version is shown below, and that set V1 cards and set V2 cards are also legal.

World Champion: basmelis
Round Replays:
Upper Bracket Round 1 • Upper Bracket Round 2 • Upper Bracket Round 3 • Finals


World Challenger: dstaley
Round Replays:
Upper Bracket Round 1 • Upper Bracket Round 2 • Upper Bracket Round 3 • Lower Bracket Round 4 • Finals


Competitor: Chadwick537
Round Replays:
Upper Bracket Round 1 • Lower Bracket Round 1 • [Lower Bracket Round 2 bye] • Lower Bracket Round 3 • Lower Bracket Round 4


Competitor: Sithdorra
Round Replays:
Upper Bracket Round 1 • Upper Bracket Round 2 • Lower Bracket Round 2 • Lower Bracket Round 3


Competitor: stephan77
Round Replays:
Upper Bracket Round 1 • Lower Bracket Round 1 (played PC-Movie due to a drop)


Competitor: talial
Round Replays:
Upper Bracket Round 1 • [Lower Bracket Round 1 bye] • Lower Bracket Round 2


Competitor: m scarpato
Round Replays:
Upper Bracket Round 1 • [dropped]


Competitor: Rutil
Round Replays:
Upper Bracket Round 1 • Lower Bracket Round 1