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Here are all of my favorite Magic Deck's that I have used or Created:



Buried Alive - Canadian Nationals 97

This deck was created by: Me, Eric Tam, Elijah Pollock and Ed Ito way back in 97 so we could "mise" Nationals. It placed 3rd, 4th and 9th.

4 Ashen Ghoul
2 Nether Shadow
4 Buried Alive
2 Dark Ritual
3 Contagion
4 Black Knight
4 Knight of Stromgald
4 Fallen Askari
2 Erg Raiders
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
2 Necropotence
2 Choking Sands
4 Bad Moon
1 Drain Life
18 swamps
3 Quicksand
CounterPost - Worlds 97 - Extended

I went 7-0 (8-0 if you count the team event) with this deck at the 1997 World Championships, which won me the award!

4 counterspell
4 Dissipate
3 Force of Will
4 Impulse
3 Wrath of God
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Disenchants
4 Abeyance
2 Gerrard's Wisdom
2 Serrated Arrows
3 Kjeldoran Outpost
3 Quicksand
3 Thawing Glaciers
4 Tundra
5 Plains
8 Island

Sideboard

1 Amnesia
4 Sand Golem
2 Mangara's Blessing
2 Karma
2 Cop:Black
2 Cop:Red
2 Disrupting Scepter


 

ZviBargain - Canadian Nationals 99

Wow, was this thing heinous to play! After I playtested it for three straight weeks I finally felt confident enough to run it at Nationals 99, where it brought me a top 8 finish. Against Krakower I had a 25 minute turn with it!

4 Mox Diamond
4 Voltaic Key
4 Grim Monolith
2 Scroll Rack
4 Dark Ritual
4 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Yawgmoth's Bargain
2 Intuition
3 Show and Tell
4 Delusions of Mediocrity
4 Turnabout
1 Blaze
4 City of Brass
4 City of Traitors
3 Crystal Vein
4 Roowater Depths
4 Underground River

Sideboard

1 Boil
1 Chill
2 Defense Grid
2 Disenchant
3 Dread of Night
1 Light of Day
3 Lobotomy
1 Masticore
1 Perish
Provincial Bargain - Provincials 99

I loved this deck! Whenever I felt I was in trouble it would simply give me what I need to win. I built this mostly independantly, but got the basic guts from Eric Taylors UBC deck

1 Claws of Gix
4 Grim Monolith
4 Dark Ritual
4 Exhume
4 Skirge Familiar
4 Soul Feast
4 Vampiric Tutor
4 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Academy Rector
3 Radiant's Dragoons
1 Renounce
2 City of Brass
4 Phyrexian Tower
7 Plains
9 Swamp

Oh Yeah, I won Provincials 99 with it!

 


 

Green Control - Urza's Block Constructed PTQ's 99

We really didn't have a clue with UBC, so one day, I brainstormed and we created this! Thanks have to go out to Jeff Fung and Mike Turian for their independant help.

4 Masticore
2 Elvish Lyrist
4 Rancor
4 Wild dogs
4 Priest of Titania
4 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
4 Yavimaya Elder
1 Hush
4 Plow Under
4 Weatherseed Treefolk
2 Child of Gaea
19 Forests
4 Treetop Village

Sideboard

3 Carpet of Flowers
2 Elvish Lyrist
2 Harmonic Convergence
1 Hush
4 Splinter
3 Tiranias Chosen
Counter Oath - PTQ's March 99

I created a Counter-Oath deck for Gary Wise and Matt Vienneau to play in PT Rome which really didn't pan out. This version is really inferior to Ben Puns but I came up with it independantly and because of that I still love it!

1 Null Rod
4 Brainstorm
4 Impulse
4 Miscalculation
4 Counterspell
2 Arcane Lab
3 Forbid
4 Force of Will
2 Gaeas Blessing
4 Oath of Druids
1 Spike Feeder
1 Shard Phoenix
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Disenchant
3 Bad River
2 City of Brass
1 Reflecting Pool
3 Treetop Village
4 Tropical Island
4 Tundra
4 Volcanic Island
3 Wasteland

Sideboard

2 Arcane Lab
1 Cop: Red
2 Disenchant
1 Hydroblast
2 Mangaras Blessing
1 Null Rod
1 Phyrexian Furnace
4 Pyroblast
1 Wasteland

 


 

Recycle - Extended 99

I think I put in like 2-3 weeks of solid playtesting for this deck and honed it like a billion times so that Brain Hacker and Igor Frayman could have a decent deck to play in PT Chicago, however after all the effort I'm not sure if it was good enough. Sorry guys!

2 Claws of Gix
4 Mox Diamonds
4 Mana Vaults
1 Thran Foundry
4 Voltaic Key
4 Grim Monolith
2 Scroll Rack
4 Dark Ritual
4 Vampiric Tutor
4 Hurkyls Recall
4 land Grant
1 City of Solitude
2 Recycle
1 Kaerveks Torch
1 Bayou
4 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Phyrexian Tower
1 Savannah
1 Tropical Island
4 Academy Rector

sideboard

1 City of Solitude
3 Compost
2 Disenchant
1 Hydroblast
1 Perish
4 Phyrexian Negator
3 Pyroblast
Ice Age/Alliance - PT Columbus deck

This could be the best deck that I ever made. By today's standards it was kinda weak, however, back then it was a house. The PT, in those days, were spread over into two divisions-Juniors and Seniors. In the seniors, This deck had a top 16(Eric Tam), top 32(Matt Vienneau) and a top 64(me), but finished 1,2,5 in the juniors (Terry Borer, Paul McCabe and Elijah Pollock)

1 Ashnods Cylix
2 Blinking Spirits
4 Brushland
3 Deadly Insects
3 Disenchants
3 Fynhorn Elves
2 Icy Manipulator
2 Incinerate
1 Jesters Cap
4 Karplusan Forests
2 Kjeldoran Outpost
1 Lava Burst
1 Lodestone Bauble
3 Pillage
2 Pyroclasm
3 Stormbind
1 Stunted Growth
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Thawing Glaciers
1 Zuran Orb
2 Forest
8Mountains
7Plains

Sideboard

1 Blinking Spirit
1 Cop: Red
1 Disenchant
1 Fiery Justice
1 Icy Manipulator
1 Jesters Cap
1 Kjeldoran Outpost
2 Lodestone Bauble
4 Pyroblast
1 Pyroclasm
1 Stunted Growth