The sixteenth Magic World Championship took place from 19–22 November 2009 at the Palazzo Dei Congressi in Rome, Italy. The tournament featured six rounds of Standard play on Thursday, two Zendikar Booster Drafts with three rounds of Swiss each on Friday, six rounds of Extended on Saturday and the finals on Sunday. Also, the national teams played two rounds of team constructed each on Thursday and Saturday with the Top 4 teams advancing to the single elimination finals on Sunday. The team format was 3 Person Team Constructed with one player playing Standard, one Extended, and one Legacy.
409 players from 65 countries competed in the event. Andre Coimbra from Portugal won the tournament, thereby claiming the first prize of $45,000. In the team final, China defeated Austria to become the team champion. This was the first Magic Pro Tour event of any sort in which no player in the Top 8 was from the United States or Japan. It was also the first time a Pro Tour Top 8 consisted of players from eight different countries.
The Magic Online World Championship was held for the first time. It also took place in Rome at the site of the paper Magic World Championship. The tournament was previously announced to be for eight competitors. The qualifications could be gained in special tournaments on Magic Online. The players played three rounds each of Classic, Zendikar Booster Draft, and Standard on computers provided on the site. After nine rounds the two best players determined the title in a final match of Standard. Anssi Myllymaki (screen name: Anathik) of Finland defeated former Pro Player of the Year Shouta Yasooka (yaya3) in the final, thus claiming the grand prize of $13,000. The other contestants won between $4,000 and $9,000.

Individual

1. Andre Coimbra (Portugal)
2. David Reitbauer (Austria)
3. Terry Soh (Malaysia)
4. Bram Snepvangers (Netherlands)
5. William Cavaglieri (Italy)
6. Manuel Bucher (Switzerland)
7. Marijn Lybaert (Belgium)
8. Florian Pils (Germany)

Team Competition

1. China – Bo Li, Wu Tong, Zhiyang Zhang
2. Austria – Benedikt Klauser, Bernhard Lehner, Benjamin Rozhon
3. Czech Republic – Lucas Blohon, Lukas Jakolvsky, Jan Kotrla
4. Netherlands – Kevin Grove, Niels Noorlander, Tom van Lamoen

Pro Player of the Year

1. Yuuya Watanabe (Japan)
2. Tomoharu Saito (Japan)
3. Martin Juza (Czech Republic)

Rookie of the Year

1. Lino Burgold (Germany)

Hall of Fame inductees
- Antoine Ruel (France)
- Kamiel Cornelissen (Netherlands)
- Frank Karsten (Netherlands)

Magic Online World Champion
1. Anssi Myllymaki (Finland)