UPDATE: We now have a dedicated page with updated results. Check it out!

In case you’ve missed it, StarCity Games ran an interesting look at the state of Magic Pro Tour Coverage this week, courtesy John Butler, a player and semi-retired lawyer with experience in the field. One of his major suggestions is that Wizards needs a way to rank the top players in the world and there is currently no system to do so. His suggestion, without much research, is to take the Pro Points from the past 24 months of Pro Tour events (including Worlds and Nationals), the past 24 months of Grand Prix winners, and the past 12 months of Grand Prix 2nd-64th place finishes.

We here at Hipsters of the Coast compiled this list. Without further ado, here are the top 100 Magic the Gathering Players in the world today:

Rank Last Name First Name Nationality Points 1 Watanabe Yuuya JPN 119 2 Utter-Leyton Josh USA 114 3 martell Tom USA 105 4 Kibler Brian M USA 88 5 Shenhar Shahar USA 87 6 Nakamura Shuuhei JPN 85 7 Finkel Jon USA 81 8 Ochoa David USA 81 9 Stark Ben USA 80 10 Yasooka Shouta JPN 79 11 Cifka Stanislav CZE 78 12 Duke Reid USA 78 13 Edel Willy BRA 76 14 Hayne Alexander CAN 73 15 Yukuhiro Ken JPN 73 16 Estratti Samuele ITA 72 17 Mihara Makihito JPN 72 18 Scott-Vargas Luis USA 72 19 Woods Conley USA 71 20 Froehlich Eric USA 71 21 Juza Martin CZE 70 22 Costa Matthew USA 69 23 Wescoe Craig USA 68 24 Damo da Rosa Paulo Vitor BRA 68 25 Black Samuel H USA 67 26 Rachid Denniz SWE 63 27 Turtenwald Owen USA 63 28 Thompson Gerry USA 60 29 Kuo Tzu-Ching TWN 59 30 Vidugiris Gaudenis USA 58 31 Levy Raphael FRA 56 32 Jaklovsky Lukas CZE 56 33 Prost Andrejs LVA 53 34 Holzinger Thomas AUT 53 35 Jordan Dan USA 53 36 Jurkovic Robert SVK 51 37 Larsson Joel SWE 49 38 Lax Ari M USA 49 39 Aintrazi Ali USA 48 40 Hampton Jesse USA 47 41 Nassif Gabriel FRA 47 42 Rietzl Paul USA 47 43 Cox Patrick USA 46 44 Floch Ivan SVK 45 45 Bland Richard ENG 44 46 Lee Shi Tian HKG 44 47 Sharfman David S USA 44 48 Calcano Christian USA 44 49 Majlaton Alex S USA 44 50 Nass Matthew USA 43 51 DeTora Melissa J USA 42 52 Portaro Alessandro ITA 41 53 Oberg Kenny SWE 41 54 Royde Daniel ENG 41 55 Pedrakowski Tomek POL 40 56 Nagai Mamoru JPN 39 57 Watsfeldt Elias SWE 39 58 Sjoblom Max FIN 38 59 Nordahl Andreas NOR 38 60 Nelson Brad J USA 38 61 Demars Brian m USA 37 62 Sajgalik Eduardo ENG 37 63 Stern Jon CAN 37 64 Huang Hao-Shan TWN 37 65 Neeman Jeremy AUS 36 66 Chew Kelvin SGP 36 67 Brendemühl Bernd DEU 36 68 Wilson Jacob A USA 35 69 Friedman Ben USA 35 70 Simonot Timothée FRA 34 71 Bjørnerud Sveinung NOR 34 72 Nakajima Chikara JPN 33 73 Mann Stephen USA 33 74 Anderson Marc CAN 33 75 Fabiano Gerard USA 33 76 Corvese Harry USA 33 77 Ochoa Dustin USA 32 78 Cuneo Andrew USA 32 79 Blohon Lucas CZE 32 80 Lemoine Vincent BEL 32 81 Wiegersma Jelger NLD 32 82 Hunt Matthias USA 32 83 Iyanaga Jun’ya JPN 31 84 Carvalho Pedro BRA 31 85 Ishida Ryuuichirou JPN 31 86 Chapin Patrick USA 31 87 Ganz Andreas CHE 28 88 Cho Joshua J USA 27 89 Dezani Jeremy FRA 27 90 Nagy Tamas HUN 27 91 Caplan David M CAN 26 92 Sutor Emanuel DEU 26 93 Nelson Brandon USA 26 94 Denno Sebastian CAN 26 95 Calvetto Marcello ITA 26 96 Tapia Becerra Felipe M CHL 25 97 Sperling Matt USA 25 98 Parker Brock USA 24 99 Pardee Samuel USA 24 100 Silva José Francisco BRA 24

This list may not be 100% accurate because it is built directly from Wizards results pages. There are a variety of name conflicts in the results (you should see how many different ways Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa shows up). However, we have done our very best to clean up all of these inconsistencies. In the case of ties, we have used cash earnings from these events as the tie-breaker. The top 100 was a clean cut using this method.

This weekend at GP Miami, #2 in the world Joshua Utter-Leyton will have a chance to take sole possession of the #1 overall spot in the world… if he shows up. Surely Watanabe can’t hold onto it for much longer, right?