1. Necropotence: Literally the deck that forever changed my perception on MTG
2. Ody-On era MBC: The culmination of my love of MBC. Worked to get every single card.
3. Urza Block Trinity: Mono green control is possible?!?!?
It was just a white heavy deck that relied on 4 Serra Angels as win conditions. It's mana base was built on 4 City of Brass & 4 Birds of Paradise. I remember it taking a long time for me to put it together, collecting every card, piece by piece.
I called it "The Unbeatable Deck" even though I lost all the time. It was the only deck I ever wanted to play... but it was also the only deck I could afford. I collected the Revised cards first (when I started playing), but the rest only came together when Chronicles was released when I could finally have 8 sources of 5-color mana.
I remember being especially proud of my Black Vise / Ivory Tower + Wheel of Fortune wombo combo, whenever I could pull it off. With 4 birds of Paradise + Sol Ring, Armageddon was always fun. But together with Black Vise in play and Feldon's Cane in the deck to get my own lands back, I was unbeatable, right?
The funny thing was that at this time Ice Age had already been released and I remember no one ever playing Brainstorm. I remember looking at it and thinking, "Ancestral Recall is better. Why would anyone play this?"
I started playing right after Apocalypse and Odyssey was my very first block that I got to experience as a whole and I have to say nothing quite beat playing UG Madness. While I in no way am gonna take credit for designing that deck, I was 10 years old and did not have internet at my house at that point so I definitely didn't net deck it. It was the first complex deck I built, and insane props to making cards like Wild Mongrel, Arrogant Wurm, Wonder and Merfolk Looter (7th edition) work so intuitively together (cards from 4 different sets in standard!). I don't think we see that kind of obvious vertical alignment in sets anymore and I kind of miss it. Also a single U untapped was a pretty obvious Circular Logic or sometimes a bluff, but it always made my friends rage (and sometimes cry).
Other than my casual home brews, my favorite deck to play in Standard was Psychatog. Lot's of great games against UG Madness (aka. Le Wonder Goose), Squirrel Opposition, and Call of the Herd (can't remember the name, but it was RGW).
I believe Carlos Ramoa's Psychatog deck ended up winning World's in '02.
Wake Control, or the 4 color control (Helix, Hierarch, Fetters, Remand, Compulsive Research, Firemane Angel) deck that got me on the PT in original RAV standard
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Standard:
Bident Layers B Devotion RG Devotion UW Control Modern:
Jund
UW Control
Combo Pod Legacy: DeathBlade RUG Delver BUG Control
Cawblade, I wasn't around for it's standard glory days, but I've built it and used it with friends, and it is so fun.
pre-banning Eggs, just knowing that once I start I pretty much win is enough to keep me hooked on this deck. It took me quite a few games to learn what to do, but once I did it only took me 5-7 minutes to finish.
Oops All Spells, the name says it all, it's so easy to pull off, yet it's so easy to disrupt. I love the fact that there are no lands in a legacy deck saves me a couple hundred dollars.
I keep rebuilding a casual semi-pauper Izzet deck with Wee Dragonauts and other cards of that type. I suppose that's probably my favourite deck considering how it keeps reforming.
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“Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.” Esmeralda Santiago Art is life itself.
There are so many to list and take note! Well, here comes two.
ISD Block Constructed WR Humans (since the early Innistrad lists with Instigator Gang, which was a beast against BR Vampires, to the DKA's Hellrider to finish at the nicely planned Ari Lax PTAVR blink list, which was the deck I played the most);
Pauper UR Delver/Kiln (The deck is so straight forward and the way Wee Dragonauts kill on turn 4/5 makes you love the deck).
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Nothing. All I want is Heroes vs. Monsters spoilers.
1. Necropotence: Literally the deck that forever changed my perception on MTG
2. Ody-On era MBC: The culmination of my love of MBC. Worked to get every single card.
3. Urza Block Trinity: Mono green control is possible?!?!?
Legacy: Death and Taxes, U/B Reanimator
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Serra Angel
Spells (15)
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Disenchant
2 Armageddon
2 Wrath of God
1 Balance
1 Braingeyser
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Regrowth
1 Sol Ring
1 Feldon's Cane
1 Black Vise
1 Ivory Tower
Lands (24)
1 Strip Mine
4 City of Brass
4 Savannah
I forget the rest.
It was just a white heavy deck that relied on 4 Serra Angels as win conditions. It's mana base was built on 4 City of Brass & 4 Birds of Paradise. I remember it taking a long time for me to put it together, collecting every card, piece by piece.
I called it "The Unbeatable Deck" even though I lost all the time. It was the only deck I ever wanted to play... but it was also the only deck I could afford. I collected the Revised cards first (when I started playing), but the rest only came together when Chronicles was released when I could finally have 8 sources of 5-color mana.
I remember being especially proud of my Black Vise / Ivory Tower + Wheel of Fortune wombo combo, whenever I could pull it off. With 4 birds of Paradise + Sol Ring, Armageddon was always fun. But together with Black Vise in play and Feldon's Cane in the deck to get my own lands back, I was unbeatable, right?
The funny thing was that at this time Ice Age had already been released and I remember no one ever playing Brainstorm. I remember looking at it and thinking, "Ancestral Recall is better. Why would anyone play this?"
Good times.
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I believe Carlos Ramoa's Psychatog deck ended up winning World's in '02.
Bident Layers
B Devotion
RG Devotion
UW Control
Modern:
Jund
UW Control
Combo Pod
Legacy:
DeathBlade
RUG Delver
BUG Control
pre-banning Eggs, just knowing that once I start I pretty much win is enough to keep me hooked on this deck. It took me quite a few games to learn what to do, but once I did it only took me 5-7 minutes to finish.
Oops All Spells, the name says it all, it's so easy to pull off, yet it's so easy to disrupt. I love the fact that there are no lands in a legacy deck saves me a couple hundred dollars.
Sorry, had to
Art is life itself.
ISD Block Constructed WR Humans (since the early Innistrad lists with Instigator Gang, which was a beast against BR Vampires, to the DKA's Hellrider to finish at the nicely planned Ari Lax PTAVR blink list, which was the deck I played the most);
Pauper UR Delver/Kiln (The deck is so straight forward and the way Wee Dragonauts kill on turn 4/5 makes you love the deck).
(Give your LGS judge a hug. He deserves it.)
Top 4'd states with that deck and it was just so much fun.
The Izzet