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==Description==
==Description==
The cards produced were [[border|gold-bordered]] versions, and thus are '''not''' legal for use in [[DCI]]-sanctioned tournaments. The cards were also stamped with the player's autograph. Each competitor's release included their 60-card [[deck]] and 15-card [[sideboard]], 12 blank [[proxy]] cards, and cards with a printed decklist, a biography of the player, and an overview of the four decks release for their respective year. Due to the larger than usual collection of 90 cards per product the [[deck box]]es for World Championship Decks were slightly larger in size than typical [[Preconstructed theme deck|Theme deck]] boxes of the era.
The cards produced were [[Card frame#Gold border|gold-bordered]] versions and did not have a standard Magic [[card back]], making them unusable in [[DCI]]-sanctioned tournaments. The cards were also stamped with the player's autograph. Each competitor's release included their 60-card [[deck]] and 15-card [[sideboard]], 12 blank [[proxy]] cards, and cards with a printed decklist, a biography of the player, and an overview of the four decks release for their respective year. Due to the larger than usual collection of 90 cards per product the [[deck box]]es for World Championship Decks were slightly larger in size than typical [[preconstructed theme deck]] boxes of the era.
 
==Decklists==
===2003 World Championship Decks, Berlin===
The 2003 World Championship took place on August 6–10, 2003 in Berlin, Germany.
 
Note: All cards in these decks were printed using the modern [[card frame]], despite many cards included in these decks never having been printed using the modern frame before.
 
====[[Daniel Zink]], World Champion====
"Daniel Zink's white-blue-green 'Wake' deck is a control deck at heart. Once the powerful enchantment Mirari's Wake is in play, the deck produces more mana, draws more cards, counters more spells, and makes more Soldiers than opponents can possibly handle."
<d title="White-Blue-Green Wake">
Artifacts
1 Mirari
 
Enchantments
3 Compulsion
3 Mirari's Wake
 
Instants
1 Circular Logic
3 Cunning Wish
4 Mana Leak
3 Moment's Peace
3 Renewed Faith
2 Vengeful Dreams
 
Sorceries
2 Decree of Justice
4 Deep Analysis
4 Wrath of God
 
Lands
2 Elfhame Palace
2 Flooded Strand
4 Forest
7 Island
4 Krosan Verge
4 Plains
4 Skycloud Expanse
 
Sideboard
3 Anurid Brushhopper
1 Circular Logic
2 Exalted Angel
1 Hunting Pack
1 Krosan Reclamation
1 Ray of Distortion
3 Ray of Revelation
1 Renewed Faith
1 Vengeful Dreams
1 Wing Shards
</d>
 
====[[Dave Humpherys]], Semifinalist====
"Dave 'The Hump' Humpherys' blue-green deck combines the many madness cards from the Torment set, including Basking Rootwalla, Arrogant Wurm, and Circular Logic, with discard-enablers like Aquamoeba and Wild Mongrel for tremendous effect."
<d title="Blue-Green Madness">
Creatures
4 Aquamoeba
3 Arrogant Wurm
4 Basking Rootwalla
4 Wild Mongrel
3 Wonder
 
Instants
4 Circular Logic
1 Krosan Reclamation
1 Ray of Revelation
3 Unsummon
 
Sorceries
4 Careful Study
2 Deep Analysis
2 Quiet Speculation
3 Roar of the Wurm
 
Lands
1 Centaur Garden
2 City of Brass
8 Forest
11 Island
 
Sideboard
1 Deep Analysis
2 Envelop
1 Krosan Reclamation
2 Mana Leak
2 Nantuko Vigilante
2 Phantom Centaur
1 Ray of Revelation
2 Stupefying Touch
1 Unsummon
1 Wonder
</d>
 
====[[Wolfgang Eder]], Quarterfinalist====
"Wolfgang Eder introduced the black-red 'Goblin Bidding' deck to the world at the European Championships. The typical Goblin hoard deck gets an incredible midgame play in Patriarch's Bidding, which brings every Goblin in the graveyard back in to play."
<d title="Goblin Bidding">
Creatures
3 Gempalm Incinerator
1 Goblin Grappler
4 Goblin Piledriver
2 Goblin Sharpshooter
4 Goblin Sledder
3 Goblin Taskmaster
4 Goblin Warchief
4 Siege-Gang Commander
3 Skirk Prospector
4 Sparksmith
 
Instants
3 Smother
 
Sorceries
3 Patriarch's Bidding
 
Lands
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 City of Brass
10 Mountain
3 Shadowblood Ridge
4 Swamp
 
Sideboard
2 Cabal Therapy
2 Dark Banishing
2 Flaring Pain
1 Smother
4 Starstorm
4 Sulfuric Vortex
</d>
 
====[[Peer Kröger]], Quarterfinalist====
"Hometown hero Peer Kröger's 'Reanimator' deck was a nightmare for his opponents! This black-red deck excels at putting scary monsters into the graveyard and then bringing them into play."
<d title="Reanimator">
Creatures
1 Anger
1 Arcanis the Omnipotent
4 Doomed Necromancer
1 Phantom Nishoba
1 Symbiotic Wurm
1 Undead Gladiator
1 Visara the Dreadful
 
Instants
3 Entomb
2 Smother
 
Sorceries
3 Buried Alive
4 Burning Wish
1 Cabal Therapy
1 Chainer's Edict
3 Innocent Blood
1 Recoup
3 Stitch Together
4 Zombify
 
Lands
4 Barren Moor
4 Bloodstained Mire
6 Mountain
2 Shadowblood Ridge
9 Swamp
 
Sideboard
1 Buried Alive
3 Cabal Therapy
1 Decompose
1 Demolish
1 Guiltfeeder
1 Haunting Echoes
1 Last Rites
1 Patriarch's Bidding
1 Pyroclasm
1 Recoup
1 Sickening Dreams
1 Soul Feast
1 Stitch Together
</d>
 
===2004 World Championship Deck, San Francisco===
The 2004 World Championship took place on September 1–5, 2004 in San Francisco, California in the United States of America.
 
Note: All cards in these decks were printed using the modern [[card frame]], despite many cards included in these decks never having been printed using the modern frame before.
 
====[[Julien Nuijten]], World Champion====
"The youngest ever Magic World Champion, Dutch wunderkind Julien Nujiten came out of nowhere to stun the field. Just fifteen years old, Nujiten proved that he can play with the best. Playing a green-white Astral Slide deck designed to destroy 'Affinity', he posted a respectable 4-2 record on the Standard day at Worlds and then calmly swept the field on the final day. He says the inspiration for his deck came from an Internet article by Pro Tour veteran Brian Kibler."
<d title="Green-White Astral Slide">
Creatures
4 Viridian Shaman
4 Eternal Witness
4 Eternal Dragon
 
Enchantments
4 Astral Slide
 
Instants
4 Renewed Faith
2 Wing Shards
 
Sorceries
2 Akroma's Vengeance
2 Decree of Justice
1 Plow Under
4 Rampant Growth
4 Wrath of God
 
Lands
7 Forest
6 Plains
4 Secluded Steppe
4 Tranquil Thicket
4 Windswept Heath
 
Sideboard
4 Oxidize
2 Rude Awakening
3 Scrabbling Claws
3 Circle of Protection: Red
3 Plow Under
</d>
 
====[[Aeo Paquette]], Finalist====
"Professional Magic player Aeo Paquette played the deck that defined the metagame at the 2004 World Championships: 'Affinity.' Against a field full of decks designed to beat Affinity, this nineteen-year-old Canadian piloted his deck to a 5-1 record during the Standard portion of the tournament. Paquette credits his friend Jeff Cunningham for helping him design an Affinity deck that could compete so well against the field."
<d title="Affinity">
Artifacts
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Chrome Mox
4 Cranial Plating
4 Frogmite
4 Ornithopter
4 Welding Jar
 
Creatures
4 Disciple of the Vault
2 Somber Hoverguard
 
Instants
4 Shrapnel Blast
 
Sorceries
4 Thoughtcast
 
Lands
3 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Great Furnace
3 Glimmervoid
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Vault of Whispers
 
Sideboard
4 Furnace Dragon
4 Seething Song
3 Serum Visions
4 Annul
</d>
 
====[[Manuel Bevand]], Semifinalist====
"Pro Tour veteran Manuel Bevand played an artifact-based combo deck to a perfect 6-0 record on the Standard day at Worlds. His deck uses Krark-Clan Ironworks to quickly get a Myr Incubator into play, which then creates thirty or more 1/1 creatures -- sometimes as early as the third turn! A twenty-seven-year-old freelance game designer from Paris, France, Bevand has been a Magic regular since 1994, playing in over a dozen Pro Tour events. He credits Magic Online for getting him back into championship form."
<d title="Myr Incubator Combo">
Artifacts
4 Chrome Mox
1 Goblin Charbelcher
4 Krark-Clan Ironworks
4 Myr Incubator
4 Pentad Prism
3 Talisman of Dominance
3 Talisman of Progress
 
Instants
4 Condescend
3 Thirst for Knowledge
 
Sorceries
3 Fabricate
1 Fireball
3 Serum Visions
4 Thoughtcast
 
Lands
2 Ancient Den
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Great Furnace
4 Seat of the Synod
3 Tree of Tales
2 Vault of Whispers
 
Sideboard
4 Mana Leak
4 Furnace Dragon
4 Seething Song
3 Pyroclasm
</d>
 
====[[Gabriel Nassif]], Quarterfinalist====
"Twenty-year-old Gabriel Nassif is considered to be the best player never to have won a Pro Tour event. Designed to beat the ubiquitous 'Affinity' decks, his blue-white control deck also plays well against anti-Affinity decks. Worlds marked the third time in the season that the Parisian had made it to the final day of a Pro Tour event, and his performance earned Nassif the coveted 2004 Player of the Year award -- a title he will defend vigorously next year."
<d title="Blue-White Anti-Affinity Control">
Artifacts
3 Wayfarer's Bauble
 
Creatures
2 Eternal Dragon
3 Exalted Angel
 
Instants
3 Annul
3 Condescend
4 Mana Leak
3 Rewind
4 Thirst for Knowledge
 
Sorceries
2 Akroma's Vengeance
4 Decree of Justice
4 Wrath of God
 
Lands
4 Cloudpost
4 Flooded Strand
7 Island
7 Plains
3 Temple of the False God
 
Sideboard
4 Purge
3 Pacifism
2 Relic Barrier
3 Scrabbling Claws
3 Stifle
</d>


==Product discontinuation==
==Product discontinuation==

Latest revision as of 08:02, 3 July 2020

World Championship Decks
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
World Championship Decks
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Set Information
Set symbol This set has no own expansion symbol.
Release date 1997 - 2004
Set size 8 x 4 x 75 (deck + sideboard)

World Championship Decks were specially packaged versions of four of the top ranked decks used during the World Championships, released by Wizards of the Coast for the years 1997 through 2004.

Description

The cards produced were gold-bordered versions and did not have a standard Magic card back, making them unusable in DCI-sanctioned tournaments. The cards were also stamped with the player's autograph. Each competitor's release included their 60-card deck and 15-card sideboard, 12 blank proxy cards, and cards with a printed decklist, a biography of the player, and an overview of the four decks release for their respective year. Due to the larger than usual collection of 90 cards per product the deck boxes for World Championship Decks were slightly larger in size than typical preconstructed theme deck boxes of the era.

Product discontinuation

2004 was the last year for which Wizards of the Coast released a series of World Championship Decks. When asked about 2005 World Championship Decks via an "Ask Wizards", Jake Theis, Assistant Brand Manager for Magic: The Gathering, stated, "We currently have no plans to release the 2005 World Championship decks. We try to have a full product offering for our fans, and the increased popularity of the Fat Pack seems to have gobbled up the demand for a fourth Magic product (after Boosters, Tournament Packs, and Theme Decks)."[1] Simply put: not enough people bought them.[2]

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