World Championship Decks 2000

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"World Champion" was the one honor Jon Finkel had yet to claim. His dominating performance at this year's World Championships earned him that title at last. Finkel played an explosive deck that is named after its most important card, Tinker. Fellow Team Antarctica member Dan O'Mahoney-Schwartz designed this monoblue deck. The deck used artifacts such as Grim Monolith, Metalworker, and Voltaic Key to quickly generate huge amounts of mana, and then used that mana to put large creatures into play.

Jon Finkel Bio

Jon Finkel Decklist

Hannover, Germany native Janosch Kühn joined an elite group of players in earning his second World Championship Top 8. Kühn played a red-green deck known as "Angry 'Derm" or "Son of Hermit." The deck built up its mana early with Birds of Paradise or Llanowar Elves, and then followed that up with mana-denial cards like Stone Rain, Plow Under, and Avalanche Riders. Masticore and Blastoderm provided the finishing punch.

Janosch Kühn Bio (2000)

Janosch Kühn Decklist (2000)

The 2000 World Championships was Nicolas Labarre's third Top 8 finish at a Pro Tour™ event (Rome '98, New York '99, Worlds '00). This Rennes, France native played a combo deck that he called "Chimera." This deck used searching cards like Academy Rector and Enlightened Tutor to fetch Fecundity, Saproling Cluster, and Ashnod's Altar. Once those three cards were in play, Labarre could generate as much mana as he wanted. With unlimited mana, he could play a very big Blaze or use Whetstone to immediately deck his opponent.

Nicolas Labarre Bio

Nicolas Labarre Decklist

Quarterfinalist Tom van de Logt posted a perfect 6—0 record during the Standard portion of this year's World Championships. The 19-year-old Groesbeek, Holland native was playing a deck that had a big impact on the metagame this year, "Replenish." This deck used cards like Attunement and Frantic Search to put powerful enchantments, such as Parallax Wave and Opalescence, into the graveyard and then used Replenish to put them all back into play at once.

Tom van de Logt Bio (2000)

Tom van de Logt Decklist (2000)

Creature — Human Cleric

When this creature dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Academy Rector

Enchantment

Absolute Law

Sacrifice a land: Destroy target enchantment.

Aura Fracture

Sorcery

Armageddon

Instant

Erase

{1}: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Circle of Protection: Black

Each other non-Aura enchantment is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value.

Opalescence

Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in your graveyard.)

Replenish

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Remove a fade counter from this enchantment: Exile target creature.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with it.

Parallax Wave

Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Seal of Cleansing

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Enlightened Tutor

Light of Day

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Daze

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Frantic Search

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Miscalculation

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Remove a fade counter from this enchantment: Exile target land.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with it.

Parallax Tide

Lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player untaps a land they control.

Rising Waters

Sacrifice this enchantment: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Seal of Removal

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact.
Search your library for an artifact card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Tinker

Creature — Avatar

Serra Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.
When Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Serra Avatar

If an opponent controls a Forest and you control an Island, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

Submerge

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Wrath of God

If you control a creature, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Worship

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

Annul

Chill

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Brainstorm

Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Draw three cards, then discard four cards.

Attunement

Counterspell

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant permanent
You control enchanted permanent.

Confiscate

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you by sources you don't control.
When a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, sacrifice this enchantment.

Energy Field

Creature — Human Nomad

Haste
Echo {3}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters, destroy target land.

Avalanche Riders

Skip your draw step.
Pay 1 life: Draw a card.

Yawgmoth's Bargain

All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {2}."

Energy Flux

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Mystical Tutor

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on this enchantment.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is the number of verse counters on this enchantment.

Lilting Refrain

Rack and Ruin

You may discard a Mountain card rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Flameshot deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures.

Flameshot

Creature — Beast

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Fading 3 (This creature enters with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Blastoderm

Fading 7 (This enchantment enters with seven fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Remove a fade counter from this enchantment: Create a green Saproling creature token. It has "This token's power and toughness are each equal to the number of fade counters on Saproling Burst."
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens created with this enchantment. They can't be regenerated.

Saproling Burst

Saproling

{1}, Discard a card: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Any player may activate this ability.

Saproling Cluster

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller may search their library for a creature card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Pattern of Rebirth

Put two target lands on top of their owners' libraries.

Plow Under

Exile target artifact. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that artifact and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Splinter

Artifact

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

Defense Grid

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{4}: Untap this artifact.

Grim Monolith

Artifact Creature — Masticore

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you discard a card.
{2}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature.
{2}: Regenerate this creature.

Masticore

Artifact Creature — Construct

{T}: Reveal any number of artifact cards in your hand. Add {C}{C} for each card revealed this way.

Metalworker

Fading 4 (This artifact enters with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player taps an untapped artifact, creature, or land they control for each fade counter on this artifact.

Tangle Wire

Thran Dynamo

Blaze

Boil

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard.
If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Yawgmoth's Will

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Arc Lightning

Stone Rain

Creature — Bird

Birds of Paradise

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Creeping Mold

Llanowar Elves

Marwyn's Kindred

Creature — Elf Druid

Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller may draw a card.

Fecundity

Creature — Ape

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact.

Uktabi Orangutan

{T}: Add {G} for each Elf on the battlefield.

Priest of Titania

Ashnod's Altar

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

Cursed Totem

If damage would be dealt to a player, that player exiles that many cards from the top of their library instead.

Crumbling Sanctuary

{T}: Add {R}.
Sacrifice this artifact: Add {R}.

Heart of Ramos

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Meekstone

Mishra's Helix

Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
Pay 8 life: Untap this creature.
This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Phyrexian Colossus

Phyrexian Processor

Minion

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life.
{4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Sky Diamond

Snake

{X}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create X 1/1 green Snake creature tokens. Activate only as a sorcery.