The top decks in the Australian, Canadian and
U.S. Nationals, along with decks from the recent World Championships,
are listed below. These decks are the decks to either play, or be prepared
for... because you will be playing against them. To be competitive it is
extremely important to have the answer to massive creature swarms, graveyard
manipulation, and strong board control. The environment so far has proven
to be wide open, with no deck dominating. Perhaps the strongest decks have
proven to be the "Buried" and "Burned" Alive decks, along with its cousin
deck, the 4 Color Black deck (4CB). With the reintroduction of Ice Age and
Homelands, Swords to Plowshares, Serrated Arrows, and Icy Manipulator have
all made a strong return along with Ihsan's Shade and Ashen
Ghouls. Board control is the name of the game, so expect Man 'O
Wars every which way you turn, along with his less friendly chum, Nekrataal.
Be prepared for the occasional Armageddon as well. Abeyance is the super
card (so far) to emerge from the Weatherlight set, along with the versatile
Gemstone Mine and Gerrard's Wisdom. Senor Stompy, CounterPost,
"Buried Alive" and "Abeyance" decks should be all the rage, while the depndable
U/R, Sligh, MaroGeddon and NecroDecks will remain consistent and
viable. I'm still looking for strong deck archetypes, so if you have
a deck listing you're willing to share of a strong tourney winning deck,
please send it in.
| Gallagher's "Senor
Stompy" Deck |
4 Llanowar Elves
1 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Ghazban Ogre
4 Rogue Elephant
4 Spectral Bear
3 Whirling Dervish
2 Harvest Wurm
3 Jolrael's Centaur
2 Lhurgoyf
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4 Giant Growth
2 Bounty of the Hunt
1 Nature's Resurgence
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4 Winter Orb
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2 Heart of Yavimaya
16 Forest
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Sideboard:
2 City of Solitude
2 Tranquil Grove
1 Whirling Dervish
3 Emerald Charm
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Sideboard (cont):
3 Uktabi Orangutan
2 Serrated Arrows
2 Hurricane
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| Dave Price's "Deadguy"
Sligh Deck |
4 Goblin Vandals
3 Goblin Digging Team
4 Ironclaw Orcs
2 Dwarven Soldier
4 Ball Lightning
2 Viashino Sandstalkers
4 Lava Hounds
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4 Incinerate
4 Hammer of Bogardan
4 Fireblast
3 Kaervak's Torch
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4 Dwarven Ruins
18 Mountain
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Sideboard:
4 Anarchy
4 Detonate
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Sideboard (cont):
4 Straw Golem
3 Pyrokinesis
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| Justin Gary's
U/R Deck |
4 Man 'O War
3 Rainbow Efreet
1 Air Elemental
4 Counterspell
4 Dissipate
4 Force of Will
2 Binding Grasp
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3 Wildfire
2 Incinerate
3 Disintegrate
3 Earthquake
1 Frenetic Efreet
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2 Serrated Arrows
2 Nevinyrral's Disk
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4 Thawing Glaciers
10 Island
8 Mountain
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Sideboard:
1 Pyroclasm
2 Hydroblast
1 Incinerate
2 Shatter
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Sideboard (cont):
3 Pyroblast
2 Energy Flux
3 Anarchy
1 Mind Harness
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| Szwedowski's 4Color
Black Deck |
2 Shadow Guildmage
4 Fallen Askari
4 Skulking Ghost
4 Nekrataal
2 Contagion
1 Vampiric Tutor
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4 Suq'Ata Lancer
4 Incinerate
1 Pyrokinesis
4 Man 'o War
4 Arcane Denial
2 Uktabi Orangutan
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3 Winter Orb
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3 Quicksand
4 Undiscovered Paradise
3 City of Brass
3 Mountain
2 Island
7 Swamp
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Sideboard:
4 Dystopia
1 Contagion
1 Winter Orb
3 Pyroblast
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Sideboard (cont):
3 Hydroblast
1 Uktabi Oragutan
1 Dwarven Miner
1 Knights of the Mist
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| Eric Tam's "Buried
Alive" Deck |
2 Nether Shadow
4 Fallen Askari
4 Black Knight
4 Knight of Stromgald
2 Erg Raiders
4 Ashen Ghouls
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2 Dark Ritual
3 Contagion
1 Drain Life
2 Choking Sands
4 Buried Alive
2 Necropotence
4 Bad Moon
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1 Nevinyrral's Disk
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3 Quicksand
18 Swamp
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Sideboard: *UNKNOWN*
4 Dystopia
1 Contagion
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Sideboard (cont):
3 Nevinyrral's Disk
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| Erik Lauer's "Control"
NecroDeck |
4 Black Knight
4 Knight of Stromgald
1 Ihsan's Shade
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4 Dark Ritual
3 Demonic Consultation
4 Necropotence
3 Coercion
2 Choking Sands
3 Contagion
4 Drain Life
1 Soul Burn
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4 Nevinyrral's Disk
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2 Quicksand
2 Lake of the Dead
19 Swamp
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Sideboard:
4 Dystopia
2 Choking Sands
1 Contagion
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Sideboard (cont):
3 Serrated Arrows
2 Agonizing Memories
3 Gloom |
| Mike Donais' Counter
Post Deck |
4 Counterspell
4 Force of Will
2 Dissipate
3 Impulse
1 Steal Artifact
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4 Wrath of God
3 Disenchant
1 Greater Realms of Preservation
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4 Icy Manipulator
1 Serrated Arrows
1 Winter Orb
1 Mana Web
1 Soldevi Digger
1 Phyrexian Furnace
3 Sky Diamond
1 Marble Diamond
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3 Thawing Glaciers
4 Quicksand
2 Kjeldoran Outpost
2 Adarkar Wastes
2 Flood Plains
6 Island
6 Plains
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Sideboard: *UNKNOWN*
2 Swords to Plowshares
3 Exile
2? Karma
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Sideboard (cont):
2 Mana Web
1 Disenchant
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| Weissman/Nicoloff/Robaina
"Turbo-Abeyance" Deck |
4 Abeyance
2 Disenchant
3 Wrath of God
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Armageddon
2 Gerrards Wisdom
1 Island Sanctuary
1 Enlightened Tutor
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4 Arcane Denial
2 Counterspell
4 Impulse
2 Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Paradigm Shift
1 Relearn
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4 Howling MIne
3 Mind Stone
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1 Kjeldoran Outpost
2 Gemstone Mine
4 Adarkar Wastes
7 Plains
8 Island
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Sideboard:
2 Jesters Cap
2 Time Elemental
2 Political Trickery
2 COP: Black
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Sideboard (cont):
2 Disenchant
2 Divine Offering
1 Gerrard's Wisdon
2 Sleight of Mind
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| Josh Timberman's G/W
"Maro-Abeyance" Deck |
3 Wall of Roots
4 River Boa
4 Whirling Dervish
2 Uktabi Orangutan
4 Jolrael's Centaur
4 Maro
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4 Abeyance
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Wrath of God
2 Disenchant
3 Armageddon
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1 Kjeldoran Outpost
4 Thawing Glaciers
3 Brushland
6 Plains
10 Forest
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Sideboard:
1 Wrath of God
2 Gerrard's Wisdom
3 Thermokarst
2 Honorable Passage
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Sideboard (cont):
2 Disenchant
2 Tranquil Domain
1 Serrated Arrows
2 Phyrexian Furnace
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| Sheppard's "Comerish"
Turbo-Xerox Deck |
3 Waterspout Djinn
3 Suq'Ata Firewalker
3 Man'o War
4 Counterspell
4 Force of Will
3 Dissipate
4 Memory Lapse
3 Power Sink
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4 Portent
4 Brainstorm
4 Foreshadow
4 Impulse
1 Foresight
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2 Quicksand
14 Island
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Sideboard:
2 Knights of the Mist
1 Suq'Ata Firewalker
1 Man'o War
2 Disrupt
2 Dream Tides
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Sideboard (cont):
1 Island
2 Phyrexian Furnace
2 Remove Soul
2 Political Trickery
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