Successful Deck Lists

[AnwarA101]

With the recent unbanning of Entomb, Dream Halls, and Metalworker I'm curious to see some of the decks where these cards were most broken. I've been curious for a long time about how to find successful deck lists from previous GPs and Pro Tours. Is this information readily available on Wizards site?

[beastman]

Deckcheck.com is probably your best bet.

[Michael Keller]

Deckcheck.com is probably your best bet.

Deckcheck.net

:cool:

[NQN]

It´s currently down, so just wait a few days and it´ll be okay.

[miko]

it has been down for a month now. when is it supposed to be fixed?

[smoky squirrel]

If deckcheck.net is down, try www.germagic.de, it is basically the same site, but in German. Still not hard to figure out though.

[humppa]

If deckcheck.net is down, try www.germagic.de, it is basically the same site, but in German. Still not hard to figure out though.

germagic.de only links to deckcheck.net, isn't it?

[Nihil Credo]

What's this talk about DeckCheck being down? It's fine right now, and I'm sure I've used it several times over the past month.

[johanessen]

What's this talk about DeckCheck being down? It's fine right now, and I'm sure I've used it several times over the past month.

Not updated.

[miko]

Yes. Last update was in August...

[DampingEngine]

Here they are:

Darwin Kastle's Reanimator
7th, Pro Tour–New Orleans 2001

1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Nether Spirit
2 Krovikan Horror
1 Avatar of Woe
1 Crosis, the Purger
1 Multani, Maro-Sorcerer
1 Verdant Force

1 Animate Dead
4 Buried Alive
1 Contamination
4 Duress
4 Entomb
4 Exhume
1 Massacre
4 Reanimate
4 Vampiric Tutor
4 Zombie Infestation

21 Swamp

Sideboard
1 Ascendant Evincar
1 Ashes to Ashes
1 Bone Shredder
3 Coffin Purge
2 Contamination
2 Massacre
1 Null Rod
1 Perish
3 Phyrexian Negator
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Jon Finkel
1st, 2000 World Championship

4 Metalworker
4 Masticore
1 Phyrexian Colossus

1 Crumbling Sanctuary
4 Grim Monolith
1 Mishra's Helix
4 Phyrexian Processor
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thran Dynamo
4 Voltaic Key
4 Brainstorm
4 Tinker

4 Crystal Vein
9 Island
4 Rishadan Port
4 Saprazzan Skerry

Sideboard
4 Annul
4 Chill
4 Miscalculation
2 Rising Waters
1 Mishra's Helix
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Spiral Blue

4 Dream Halls
3 Mind Over Matter
4 Stroke of Genius
4 Time Spiral
4 Intuition
4 Brainstorm
4 Meditate
4 Counterspell
4 Mana Vault
1 Attunement
3 Turnabout

18 Island
3 Ancient Tomb

Sideboard
4 Hydroblast
4 Chill
1 Turnabout
3 Power Sink
3 Capsize
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Also, this deck was the first to get Dream Halls noticed, although the above one got Halls and Time Spiral banned in Standard:

Turbo Zvi, Zvi Moshowitz

4 Ancestral Memories
1 Counterspell
4 Dream Halls
3 Gaea's Blessing
1 Impulse
1 Inspiration
4 Intuition
1 Lobotomy
4 Lotus Petal
4 Mana Severance
4 Meditate
4 Memory Lapse
4 Sift

9 Island
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Crystal Vein
4 Svyelunite Temple

Sideboard
4 Abeyance
4 Adarkar Wastes
1 Dismiss
4 Hydroblast
1 Inspiration
1 Lobotomy

[humppa]

Yes. Last update was in August...

Hey, today there are new submitted decks! ok, all from august, but new in the list :)

[Shawn]

Here are some Metalworker decks from the top 8 of 2003 PT: New Orleans:


Rickard Osterberg
4 Ancient Tomb
3 City of Brass
4 City of Traitors
2 Great Furnace
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Shivan Reef


1 Bosh, Iron Golem
4 Goblin Welder
1 Masticore
4 Metalworker
1 Pentavus
1 Platinum Angel
2 Chromatic Sphere
1 Citanul Flute
1 Gilded Lotus
4 Grim Monolith
3 Lightning Greaves
1 Mindslaver
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Tinker
3 Voltaic Key

3 Defense Grid
1 Elf Replica
1 Mindslaver
3 Rack and Ruin
2 Shattering Pulse
1 Triskelion

Masashi Oiso
3 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
7 Island
4 Rishadan Port
4 Seat of the Synod

4 Masticore
4 Metalworker
4 Grim Monolith
2 Mindslaver
1 Mishra's Helix
2 Phyrexian Processor
3 Stroke of Genius
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thran Dynamo
4 Tinker
2 Upheaval
4 Voltaic Key

3 Aether Spellbomb
1 Mishra's Helix
1 Phyrexian Processor
1 Planar Portal
1 Rejuvenation Chamber
3 Stifle
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Upheaval
3 Welding Jar

Eugene Harvey
4 Ancient Tomb
3 City of Traitors
7 Island
3 Rishadan Port
4 Seat of the Synod

2 Masticore
4 Metalworker
3 Chalice of the Void
1 Gilded Lotus
4 Grim Monolith
1 Mindslaver
1 Mishra's Helix
1 Myr Incubator
1 Phyrexian Colossus
3 Stroke of Genius
4 Tangle Wire
3 Thran Dynamo
4 Tinker
3 Upheaval
4 Voltaic Key

3 Chain of Vapor
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Deep Analysis
1 Kill Switch
2 Masticore
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Oblivion Stone
4 Propaganda
1 Triskelion

Hans Joachim Hoh
3 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
3 Island
4 Rishadan Port
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Shivan Reef

1 Bosh, Iron Golem
3 Masticore
4 Metalworker
1 Damping Matrix
1 Gilded Lotus
4 Grim Monolith
1 Mindslaver
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Stroke of Genius
4 Tangle Wire
3 Thran Dynamo
4 Tinker
2 Upheaval
1 Urza's Blueprints
4 Voltaic Key

4 Chill
1 Crumbling Sanctuary
3 Deep Analysis
1 Myr Incubator
1 Pentavus
4 Rack and Ruin
1 Sphere of Resistance

[AnwarA101]

DampingEngine and Shawn where are you pulling the old PT information from? Is that deckcheck.net? I've gone there but how do you navigate to such results? Are you searching by PT or format? Do you have to know these decks exist or can you just say give me the Top 8 of the last 10 years of Pro Tours?

[Shawn]

Those lists were on magicthegathering.com from this (http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=sideboard/events/ptno03) article. I haven't found a good way to search for decklists on mtg.com, I just found these while wandering around looking at some old PT coverage.

[DampingEngine]

Yeah, basically it's from knowing they exist & searching magicthegathering.com or a general web search. I found the Dream Halls/Time Spiral deck by googling something like +"4 dream halls" +"4 time spiral" for example. Deckcheck seems to go back only to about 2005, which means it wouldn't even have pre-type 1 format separation legacy decks. I actually did think something after I made my post; Entomb is probably banned because of the Worldgorger Dragon deck that was big right before the first banned list was made, and same with Metalworker for the Welder MUD deck. Dream Halls is probably more reactionary to past brokenness though, and I think it was already banned before the format split due to restriction in type 1. I don't know anything about the period right before the format split, so hopefully someone else can tell a little more about it.

EDIT:
Actually I was wrong, it seems that Entomb has been restricted in vintage since 2003, so 1.5 Dragon decks didn't run it. Stephen Menendian mentioned it in a recent article:

http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/vintage/17647_So_Many_Insane_Plays_The_DCI_Strikes_Back_The_July_2009_Changes_to_the_Vintage_Restricted_List.html

I also can't find anything on a legacy deck with Metalworker, but suffice to say, I doubt it was ever broken without 4 Mishra's Workshop to go with it (except in type 2).