World Championships 2024

That tournament is played, it's over, and everything it produced is here: who won, the 127 places in order, the decks that were in the bags that day. It was 16 August 2024. Looking back at a past Worlds is the best way to understand what this game looks like when the very best really go at it.

16 August 20241,147 players127 places

Fernando Cifuentes won this one, with Iron Thorns.

Careful if you're planning to copy it: this one was played before a rotation. The cards still go by the same names, but the actual copies he put on the table that day aren't tournament legal any more. Read this list for what it tells you — how he built the deck, what he chose to play — not to take it to your store on Saturday.

The top of the standings

The first eight places, in order. At Worlds those are the players still standing on the last day, the ones everybody is watching. The rest of the standings is right below, if you want to go through it.

The top of the standings
Place	Player	Deck	Their list
1st	Fernando CifuentesCL	Iron Thorns	posted
2nd	Seinosuke ShiokawaJP	Roaring Moon	posted
3rd	Jesse ParkerUS	Miraidon	posted
4th	Raz WolpeIL	Regidrago	posted
5th	Isaiah BradnerUS	Regidrago	posted
6th	James GoreingAU	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
7th	Ian RobbUS	Regidrago	posted
8th	Michael DavidsonUS	Regidrago	posted

See all 127 places, player by player

Everybody is here, from ninth place all the way down. These players made the trip and earned their seat in the room, so they get a name and a deck like everyone else. If you follow someone, this is where you'll find them.

See all 127 places, player by player
Place	Player	Deck	Their list
9th	Rahul ReddyUS	Lugia Archeops	posted
10th	Tord ReklevNO	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
11th	Grant ShenUS	Regidrago	posted
12th	Luo Tian QingCN	Gardevoir	posted
13th	Miloslav PosledniCZ	Regidrago	posted
14th	Konsta KallamaFI	Lugia Archeops	posted
15th	Ryan HarrisUS	Miraidon	posted
16th	Lucas XingCA	Chien-Pao Baxcalibur	posted
17th	Taisei ItoJP	Lugia Archeops	posted
18th	Shinya KarashimaJP	Iron Thorns	posted
19th	Nicholas MoffittUS	Regidrago	posted
20th	Hayato SuzukiJP	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
21st	Joshua VanoverscheldeBE	Lugia Archeops	posted
22nd	Kai-Yu FangTW	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
23rd	Kaiwen CabbabeAU	Regidrago	posted
24th	Andrew HedrickUS	Regidrago	posted
25th	Eder Jarillo SotoMX	Lugia Archeops	posted
26th	Otavio GouveiaBR	Regidrago	posted
27th	Alessandro CremascoliIT	Pidgeot Control	posted
28th	Pedro PertusiBR	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
29th	Facundo FacioAR	Iron Thorns	posted
30th	Tymoteusz DziedzicPL	Iron Thorns	posted
31st	Yuto TakahashiJP	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
32nd	Haruto MikiJP	Gardevoir	posted
33rd	Tom HellkampUS	Iron Thorns	posted
34th	Jack MooreCA	Regidrago	posted
35th	Oscar MadsenDK	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
36th	Zach LesageCA	Regidrago	posted
37th	Brandon BaughnUS	Lugia Archeops	posted
38th	Ryoto SawaguchiJP	Lugia Archeops	posted
39th	Cameron KawasakiUS	Gholdengo	posted
40th	Yoshiyuki YamaguchiJP	Regidrago	posted
41st	Taisei UeguchiJP	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
42nd	Diego CassiragaAR	Ancient Box	posted
43rd	Ryan AntonucciUS	Snorlax Stall	posted
44th	James CoxAU	Regidrago	posted
45th	Zihao ChenCN	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
46th	Iori TakahashiJP	Miraidon	posted
47th	Vance KelleyUS	Regidrago	posted
48th	William AzevedoBR	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
49th	Ross WarrenGB	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
50th	Cobi KawasakiUS	Gholdengo	posted
51st	Minaki HasegawaJP	Gardevoir	posted
52nd	Dario TosoliniIT	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
53rd	Marco Cifuentes MetaCL	Lost Box Charizard	posted
54th	Cameron ShenoyUS	Regidrago	posted
55th	Sebastian LashmetUS	Regidrago	posted
56th	Aneil SainiCA	Regidrago	posted
57th	Mitch KnuckeyAU	Regidrago	posted
58th	Javier Tengo JofreES	Regidrago	posted
59th	Chris FrancoUS	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
60th	Raúl González SandovalMX	Gardevoir	posted
61st	Caleb RogersonUS	Regidrago	posted
62nd	Yerco ValenciaCL	Lugia Archeops	posted
63rd	Francisco OsorioCL	Lugia Archeops	posted
64th	Akira KurasakiJP	Regidrago	posted
65th	Takashi YonedaJP	Regidrago	posted
66th	Pedro VicêncioPT	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
67th	Aleksander RutowiczPL	Banette Gardevoir	posted
68th	Enzo TassaraCL	Lugia Archeops	posted
69th	Bryan de VriesNL	Regidrago	posted
70th	Karl BlakeGB	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
71st	Abaan AhmedUS	Gholdengo	posted
72nd	Motohiro HiguchiJP	Roaring Moon	posted
73rd	Casey BenninkUS	Iron Thorns	posted
74th	Michael SlutskyUS	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
75th	Sawyer MelbanUS	Miraidon	posted
76th	Claudio DiazCL	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
77th	Christian D'OnofrioIT	Ancient Box	posted
78th	Dominik MalickiPL	Miraidon	posted
79th	Kai WainwrightGB	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
80th	Fabrizio Inga SilvaPE	Chien-Pao Baxcalibur	posted
81st	Nofoume Ben Ahmed AlyFR	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
82nd	Rene VillagranaMX	Iron Thorns	posted
83rd	Min Qian ChenTW	Lugia Archeops	posted
84th	Michael NattoUS	Iron Thorns	posted
85th	Tianyi RongCN	Regidrago	posted
86th	Riku NakajimaJP	Regidrago	posted
87th	Simon LuongCA	Regidrago	posted
88th	Joah WiegnerDE	Gardevoir	posted
89th	Calvin ConnorUS	Gardevoir	posted
90th	Sin Yan LinTW	Regidrago	posted
91st	Fabio SpanòIT	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
92nd	Shinji MoriJP	Gardevoir	posted
93rd	Brent TonissonAU	Regidrago	posted
94th	Allan DubreuilFR	Chien-Pao Baxcalibur	posted
95th	Nerses FatunzDE	Snorlax Stall	posted
96th	Chun Yin KwongHK	Lugia Archeops	posted
97th	Andi CheungAU	Lugia Archeops	posted
98th	Hugo De TorresES	Lugia Archeops	posted
99th	Michele SchiraldiCA	Gardevoir	posted
100th	Steven Salas CajinaCR	Ancient Box	posted
101st	Luis NavasCL	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
102nd	Boku KiwadaJP	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
103rd	Magnus PedersenDK	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
104th	Adam DenkCZ	Regidrago	posted
105th	Irving Xavier Garcia AldanaMX	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
106th	Max PrescottAU	Regidrago	posted
107th	Aimé DucretCH	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
108th	Mario MartinezUS	Lugia Archeops	posted
109th	Patryk BrzezinskiPL	Iron Thorns	posted
110th	Zach CohenUS	Miraidon	posted
111th	Yu ItoJP	Pidgeot Control	posted
112th	Felipe CarrenoCL	Regidrago	posted
113th	Adam KnowlesUS	Lugia Archeops	posted
114th	David Frans DaritanID	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
115th	Jeremy GumilaUS	Regidrago	posted
116th	Andrew MartinUS	Charizard Pidgeot	posted
117th	Rio TanabeJP	Regidrago	posted
118th	Justin BrothersUS	Snorlax Stall	posted
119th	Matias Ramirez MarianettiCL	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
120th	Jose MarreroUS	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
121st	Andres Estefano Gajardo LopehandiaCL	Chien-Pao Baxcalibur	posted
122nd	Kyle WarnerUS	Snorlax Stall	posted
123rd	Eddie NorthUS	Dragapult ex	posted
124th	Gianmarco GrecoIT	Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”	posted
125th	Junhui YanCN	Lugia Archeops	posted
126th	Aaron WalkerUS	Iron Thorns	posted
127th	Jake RiggsUS	Regidrago	posted

All 127 lists in the standings are up, and we've read every one of them.

What players brought

127 places in the standings, and here are the decks that were in the bags. A deck showing up a lot mostly tells you plenty of people bet on it before they knew what they'd be facing. To find out whether it delivered, look at the column next to it: the best place it actually took.

What players brought
Deck	Players	Share	Best place
Regidrago	35	28 %	4th
Lugia Archeops	17	13 %	9th
Raging Bolt exon stream they call it “Raging Bolt Ogerpon”37 lists with us right now	15	12 %	6th
Charizard Pidgeot	15	12 %	10th
Iron Thorns	10	8 %	1st
Gardevoir	8	6 %	12th
Miraidon	6	5 %	3rd
Chien-Pao Baxcalibur	4	3 %	16th
Snorlax Stall	4	3 %	43rd
Gholdengo	3	2 %	39th
Ancient Box	3	2 %	42nd
Roaring Moon	2	2 %	2nd

Of the 16 different decks that were in the bags that weekend, we still find 2 in the lists we harvest today.

You can't build these decks any more.

This edition was played before a rotation. Across the 127 lists we pulled back, our catalogue only recognises 81% of the cards, because it holds what's legal today and the rest have left the format since. So we'd rather not take these lists apart card by card: it would have you studying a deck you're no longer allowed to put on the table. The standings above still hold.

The standings, all 127 places, are on Limitless too — that’s where we read them.

THE OTHER EDITIONS

Every World Championship we have on file gets its own page, with the standings in full. Year to year, you can watch the game change in front of you.

WHERE THESE NUMBERS COME FROM

The table of decks being played right now is our own count. Those are tournament lists we harvest several times a day and read card by card against our catalogue.

The standings on Limitless