The 2018 World Magic Cup, the seventh World Magic Cup, was held on 14–16 December 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.
The event featured a World Magic Cup debutant, with Honduras participating in the event for the first time.
The 2018 World Magic Cup was the last World Magic Cup event, as the system, including Nationals, was discontinued in 2019.
The 2018 World Magic Cup featured two formats: Team Sealed and Team Unified Standard. Team Sealed is a variation of Sealed deck where the team shares a pool of twelve Booster packs, which is used to build three 40-card decks. For the Team Unified Constructed portion, like in 2017, Standard was the featured format. Team Unified Constructed means that with the exception of basic lands, there may not be any copies of the same card in two different decks. For example, only one player on a team may use Lava Coil, regardless of how many copies of the card that player has in their deck.
Day 1 featured at most seven rounds of Swiss play; all teams that won their fourth match received byes every round for the rest of the day.
The deciding match is determined by game count at the end of extra turns.
If the deciding match's game count is tied, the player with the highest life total wins the match.
If the team match count, game count, and life totals are tied at the end of extra turns, the first change in life total results in the player whose life total is higher after said change winning the match.
If the game count becomes tied in extra turns, and a third game needs to be played, the match is decided by the first change in life total, with the player whose life total is higher after said change winning the match.
The first day of competition featured two formats: Guilds of Ravnica Team Sealed (3 rounds) followed by Team Unified Standard (up to 4 rounds). Teams played until they had four wins or seven rounds had been played, whichever came first. Teams that reached four wins before round seven were guaranteed advancement to day 2, while the teams that reached the "four wins"-threshold in round seven had to hope that their tiebreakers would be good enough to see them through. In the end, 7 teams made it through with 4–3-records, while 3 teams didn't. These were Argentina, Poland, and Croatia.
The best performers were Peru, Israel, Italy, and Hong Kong, all starting 4–0 and securing advancement at the earliest possible time.
↑ Mike Rosenberg (2018-03-15). "2018 NATIONALS DETAILS". Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved on 2018-04-09.