The Decks to Beat, Dec '97

The top decks in tournaments from around the world are listed below. These decks are the decks to either play, or be prepared for... because you will be playing against them. Right now the environment is settling down, and a stable base of decks is emerging. Strong tourney cards to emerge from TE include Propaganda, Tradwind Rider, Capsize, Meditate, Sapphire Medallion, the "Shadow" creatures, Cursed Scroll and Mogg Fanatics. 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. *Note* - This page best viewed with Netscape 3.0+.


"Jay Schneider Pox" by T. Lindohf

  4 Diabolic Edict
  4 Funeral Charm
  3 Drain Life
  3 Evincar's Justice
  3 Spinning Darkness
  4 Pox
  4 Stupor

  3 Steel Golem
  2 Chimeric Sphere

  4 Cursed Scroll

  2 Charcoal Diamond
  2 Mind Stone

 Sideboard:
  2 Dread of Night
  3 Perish
  2 Pillar Tombs of Aku
  1 Stalking Stones
  3 Quicksand
  2 Undiscovered Paradise
  3 Gemstone Mine
  13 Swamp


  
 Sideboard(Cont):
  3 Lobotomy
  2 Warmth,
  3 Disenchant


"5CG" by J. Torstensson

  4 Birds of Paradise
  4 Granger Guildmage
  4 Quirion Ranger
  4 River Boa
  3 Jolrael's Centaur
  3 Maro
  1 Lhurgoyf

  2 Man-o'War
  3 Tradewind Rider
  2 Power Sink
  3 Armageddon
  2 Disenchant

  2 Terror

  4 Incinerate

 Sideboard:
  3 Hydroblast
  4 Pyroblast
  2 Meekstone
  2 Sleight of Mind
  1 City of Brass
  4 Gemstone Mine
  4 Undiscovered Paradise
  10 Forest


  
 Sideboard(Cont):
  2 Simoon
  1 Firestorm
  1 Disenchant


"Living Gas" by J. "T2K" Opalka

  4 Dauthi Slayer
  3 Knight of Stromgald
  2 Barrow Ghoul
  2 Hidden Horror
  4 Necrotog
  4 Nekrataal
  2 Skyshroud Vampire

  4 Living Death
  4 Ertai's Familiar
  3 Intuition

  4 Song of Blood





Sideboard:
  2 Knights of the Mist
  2 Lobotomy
  2 Memory Lapse
  3 Pyroblast
  3 Undiscovered Paradise
  1 City of Brass
  2 Bad River
  2 Underground River
  2 Rocky Tarpit
  1 Mountain
  1 Island
  12 Swamp
  
 Sideboard(Cont):
  2 Disenchant
  1 Perish
  1 Cloudchaser Eagle
  2 Hydroblast


"Steel Curtain" by A. Shvartsman

  4 Counterspell
  3 Dissipate
  2 Dismiss
  3 Disrupt
  2 Capsize
  4 Propaganda
  2 Pendrell Mists
  4 Impulse
  1 Recall


  3 Steel Golem

  4 Winter Orb
  1 Grindstone
  1 Jester's Cap

 Sideboard:
  1 Disrupt
  2 Abduction
  4 Hydroblast
  2 Chill
  3 Sky Diamond
  3 Mind Stone

  4 Quicksand
  16 Island

 Sideboard(Cont):
  1 Steel Golem
  2 Suq'Ata Firewalker
  2 Disrupting Scepter
  1 Grindstone


"5CB" by Tackett & Treat

  3 Shadow Guildmage
  4 Black Knight 
  4 Knight of Stromgald
  1 Necratog 
  4 Nekrataal

  4 Diabolic Edict

  1 Disenchant
  4 Incinerate
  4 Kindle
  1 Earthquake

  4 Frenetic Efreet

  4 Man o' War





 Sideboard:
  3 Hydroblast
  3 Disenchant
  2 Knight of the Mist
  2 Reflecting Pool
  2 City of Brass
  2 Gemstone Mine
  4 Undiscovered Paradise
  1 Underground River
  1 Sulfurous Springs
  1 Rocky Tar Pit
  1 Bad River
  1 Island 
  1 Mountain
  6 Swamp

 Sideboard(Cont):
  3 Pyroblast
  2 Cop Red
  2 Lobotomy


"Bwatdown City" by J. "T2K" Opalka

  4 Llanowar Elves
  4 Granger Guildmage
  4 Muscle Slivers
  4 River Boas
  3 Jolrael's Centaur

  4 Giant Growth
  1 Overrun
  4 Mogg Fanatic
  4 Ironclaw Orc

  4 Incinerate

  4 Winter Orb

 Sideboard:
  2 Meekstone
  3 Tranquil Domain
  1 Uktabi Orangutan
  3 Undiscovered Paradise
  3 Karplusan Forest
  4 Wasteland
  4 Mountain  
  6 Forest


 Sideboard(Cont):
  4 Pyroblast
  3 Nevinyrral's Disk
  2 Wildfire Emissary


"Big Blue" by D. Godden

  4 Counterspell
  4 Memory Lapse
  2 Dissipate
  2 Dismiss
  3 Power Sink

  3 Impulse
  4 Time Ebb
  4 Man-o-war
  4 Ophidian
  2 Rainbow Efreet
  2 Air Elemental

 Sideboard:
  3 Chill
  3 Dream Tides
  2 Energy Flux
  3 Nevinyrral's Disk

  4 Quicksand
  19 Island

 Sideboard(Cont):
  4 Hydroblast
  3 Knight of the Mist


"Cursed Sligh" by T. Bui

  4 Mogg Fanatic
  4 Jackal Pup
  1 Goblin Vandal
  4 Ironclaw Orc
  4 Fireslinger
  2 Canyon Wildcat
  4 Ball Lightning
  4 Kindle
  4 Incinerate
  4 Fireblast

  4 Cursed Scroll

 Sideboard:
  4 Ankh of Mishra
  3 Pyroblast
  2 Boil
  2 Shatter
  4 Wastelands
  18 Mountains




 Sideboard(Cont):
  1 Goblin Vandal
  2 Searing Touch
  1 Firestorm


"4CW" by E. Fertik

  4 White Knights
  4 Order of the White Shield
  4 Freewind Falcons
  4 Soltari Priests
  1 Knight of the Dawn

  4 Empyrial Armour
  2 Disenchant
  1 Honorable Passage
  2 Aura of Silence
  4 Tithe

  4 Man'o'Wars

  1 Sleight of Mind

  4 Incinerate

  2 Terror

 Sideboard:
  2 Honorable Passage
  2 Disenchant
  2 Aura of Silence
  4 Undiscovered Paradise
  3 Cities of Brass
  1 Gemstone Mine
  1 Reflecting Pool
  9 Plains



 Sideboard(Cont):
  4 Pyroblasts
  2 Boil
  3 Perish


Erik Lauer's "Discard-Necro"

  4 Knight of Stromgald
  4 Abyssal Specter

  4 Drain Life
  3 Funeral Charm
  3 Diabolic Edict
  4 Dark Ritual
  4 Stupor
  4 Necropotence
  4 Bottle Gnomes

  4 Nevinyrral's Disk

 Sideboard:
  2 Dread of Night
  2 Prish
  2 Spinning Darkness
  2 Terror
  2 Touchstone
  18 Swamp
  4 Wasteland


 Sideboard(Cont):
  2 Agonizing Memories
  1 Disrupting Scepter
  1 Snake Basket
  1 Pestilence



"ProsBloom" by P. Radonjic

  4 Infernal Contract
  4 Vampiric Tutor
  1 Drain Life

  4 Natural balance
  2 City of Solitude

  4 Squandered Resources
  4 Cadavereous Bloom
  4 Prosperity
  4 Power Sink
  2 Memory Lapse
  4 Impulse
  1 Meditate

 Sideboard:
  2 Hydroblast
  2 Drain Power
  1 Memory Lapse
  2 Emerald Charm
  4 City of Brass
  4 Gemstone Mine
  5 Swamp
  4 Forest
  5 Island

 Sideboard(Cont):
  1 Steal Enchantment
  2 Perish
  3 Gloom
  2 Pygmy Hippo



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