Subject: Ilinois State Decks, No Surprises
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:28:27 EST
From: FlyCircus1@aol.com
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

Compiled from decklists.

1998 Illinois State Championship

Sligh                   31      22%
Academy         21      15% (1 DQ’d early, so effectively 20, 14%)
Black(weenie and necro) 16      11.5%
CounterPhoenix          11      8%
Mono Green              10      7%
White Weenie             9      6%
Mono Blue                7      5%
Tradewindgeddon  6      4%
Red/Green                6      4%
*other control decks    11      8%
*other creature decks   11      8%
                             --------     -------
        total           139     98.5%
*(Humility, Survival/Recurring, R/W/B Tradewind, Ertai Laboratory, Sliver,
 B/U, R/U, G/U, W/R, W/G, B/R)

Final 8

3 Sligh
3 Academy
1 Black Speed
1 Counter Phoenix

Semi Finalist

1 Sligh
2 Academy
1 Counter Phoenix
Academy def. Academy, Sligh def. Counter Phoenix

Final

Mohammed Alayli, Sligh vs  Chris Warren, Academy
Warren mulligans to 6 and draws 3 Mana Vaults and a few non basic land in game
3 while Alayli draws 1 meltdown, 1 pyroblast and 2 wastelands early in the
game
A horrilble ending. No contest.

Alayli wins Illinois.

Dan Bishop
Level2, attending staff