Guillaume Matignon

Guillaume Matignon is a professional trading card game player from Bordeaux, France. He has earned numerous accolades during his career including the World of Warcraft TCG 2007 World Championship and the Magic: The Gathering 2010 World Championship.

Magic: The Gathering Guillaume Matignon started playing Magic: The Gathering in 1994. Guillaume claims to have received the 34th DCI number issued in France and to have played in France's very first sanctioned event. Later that year Matignon moved to Wafo-Tapa's hometown of Nantes to study for three years. In particular, Matignon was credited with the addition of Meddling Mage to the deck, a card Canali said 'made all the difference'. At this point, Matignon had not met Canali, with Wafo-Tapa being the one to pass the decklist on to Canali.

Matignon's breakout performance came at the 2006 France National Championship where he made the Top 8, losing to Selim Creiche in the quarterfinals. Matignon claims that this result made him more serious about Magic and he started to attend every Pro Tour. take 3rd place in the 2009 event, and take 2nd in the 2010 event. The French National teams that Guillaume has featured on in the Team World Championship have placed 43rd (2007), 8th (2009) and 6th (2010).

2010 Player of the Year Race

Matignon's greatest success came in 2010, in which he reached the finals of Pro Tour San Juan, and won the 2010 World Championship defeating long-time friend Guillaume Wafo-Tapa in the finals. These results combined with his 2nd place French Nationals finish and other strong finishes throughout the year resulted in Matignon coming in joint first place alongside Brad Nelson in the 2010 Player of the Year race. The 2010 Player of the Year race was decided in a special Player of the Year Match held at Pro Tour Paris 2011. Brad Nelson won the match 4-2 and became the official 2010 Pro Player of the Year, leaving Matignon to take second place. Matignon was apologetic about the leak, revealing that it was caused when he shared the 'God Book' of all the cards in the set, which he had received in order to write an article on the set for French magazine Lotus Noir, with Wafo-Tapa. As a result, Guillaume Matignon was suspended from the DCI for three years, Guillaume Wafo-Tapa, Martial Moreau, and David Gauthier (the three other players involved in the leak) were also suspended until October 2012. As a result of this achievement, Guillaume Matignon is the current holder of the World Record for the 'Greatest Cash Prize for a Trading Card Game'.

Before winning the World Championships of WOW TCG, Guillaume also won the National Championship in 2007.