World Magic Cup Qualifiers are invitation-only tournaments. These Premier Events will be held in countries that have been selected to have national teams compete at the World Magic Cup.

A player that already has an invitation to the World Magic Cup may not compete in further World Magic Cup Qualifiers that award invitations to that year’s World Magic Cup.

Each country’s World Magic Cup Qualifiers are open only to those qualified players who are listed as having Nationality of that country on the Planeswalker Points website.

If a player competes in a World Magic Cup Qualifier or World Magic Cup Qualifier Last Chance Qualifier in one country, he or she may not compete in a World Magic Cup Qualifier or World Magic Cup Qualifier Last Chance Qualifier (or be a member of a national team) of another country until the following year. Please see Section 4 – Nationality Eligibility for complete information.

The invitation list for each country’s 2016 World Magic Cup Qualifier will consist of the following players:

• Players in the 2016 Yearly Award Points Season that have met the minimum amount of points for that country. The number of points required for each country can be found in Appendix C.
• Players (from that country) with a Pro Tour Players Club Silver, Gold, or Platinum level as of the date of the World Magic Cup Qualifier.
• Players (from that country) that are members of the Pro Tour Hall of Fame.
• Winners of World Magic Cup Qualifier Last Chance Qualifiers that immediately precede that World Magic Cup Qualifier.

The list of potential countries and the invitation list criteria for each country’s 2016 World Magic Cup Qualifiers can be found in Appendix C.

A player may be awarded byes for World Magic Cup Qualifiers based on one or more of the following criteria:

• Players (from that country) with a Pro Tour Players Club Gold or Platinum level as of the date of the World Magic Cup Qualifier.
• Players (from that country) that are members of the Pro Tour Hall of Fame.
• Players (from that country) that have a sufficiently high number of Yearly Award Points.

Players can be awarded one- or two-round byes for a World Magic Cup Qualifier. Byes are not cumulative within a given World Magic Cup Qualifier or from one World Magic Cup Qualifier to another. Byes may not be passed down to other players for any reason and are not transferable. Byes may not be deferred from one World Magic Cup

Qualifier to another and must be earned each time. Players that accumulate multiple byes to a World Magic Cup Qualifier are awarded only the bye for the greatest number of rounds.

If a player is awarded a bye, he or she is considered to have earned 3 points in the World Magic Cup Qualifier for each of those rounds. Byes are not counted toward a player’s opponent’s match win percentage. Players with byes will usually have an advantage in tiebreakers over players that do not have byes.

Planeswalker Points-based byes at World Magic Cup Qualifiers are based on the Yearly Award Points Season designated to award byes at World Magic Cup Qualifiers held during a specific year. See Section 5 – Planeswalker Points Based Invitations and Byes for complete information:

During each Yearly Award Season, players that have accumulated the minimum required number of Yearly Award Points will receive a one-round bye for each World Magic Cup Qualifier that is held during that year.

The number of points required to receive a one-round bye for each country can be found in Appendix C.

Players can also receive a number of byes at a World Magic Cup Qualifier based on the Pro Tour Players Club membership level of the player (as of the date of the World Magic Cup Qualifier):

Members of the Pro Tour Hall of Fame receive a one-round bye at each World Magic Cup Qualifier.