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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. |
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| ==Decklists==
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| ===2002 World Championship Decks, Sydney===
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| The 2002 World Championship took place on August 14–18, 2002 in Sydney, Australia.<ref>{{DailyRef|feature/world-championship-standard-decks-2002-11-21|World Championship Standard Decks|[[Mike Flores]]|November 21, 2002}}</ref>
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| ====[[Carlos Romao]], World Champion====
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| "Romão's blue-black 'Psychatog' deck was the defining deck of the tournament. A control deck at heart, with lots of card drawing and countermagic, it wants to stall an opponent until it can play a devastating Upheaval and Psychatog on the same turn. While many people at this year's World Championship played this style of deck, Carlos simply played his version better than everyone else played theirs."
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| <d title="Psychatog">
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| Creatures
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| 4 Nightscape Familiar
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| 4 Psychatog
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| Instants
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| 3 Circular Logic
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| 4 Counterspell
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| 3 Cunning Wish
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| 3 Fact or Fiction
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| 3 Memory Lapse
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| 4 Repulse
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| Sorceries
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| 3 Chainer's Edict
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| 3 Deep Analysis
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| 2 Upheaval
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| Lands
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| 10 Island
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| 2 Cephalid Coliseum
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| 1 Darkwater Catacombs
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| 4 Salt Marsh
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| 3 Swamp
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| 4 Underground River
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| Sideboard
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| 1 Coffin Purge
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| 4 Duress
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| 1 Fact or Fiction
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| 1 Gainsay
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| 3 Ghastly Demise
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| 1 Hibernation
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| 1 Mana Short
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| 1 Recoil
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| 1 Slay
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| 1 Teferi's Response
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| </d>
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| ====[[Sim Han How]], Quarterfinalist====
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| "Han How's blue-green-red 'Squirrel Opposition' deck can be aggressive with cards like Wild Mongrel and Flametongue Kavu, or it can play the stalling game with a Squirrel Nest - Opposition combo. Beware the Roar of the Wurm in the sideboard!"
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| <d title="Squirrel Opposition">
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| Creatures
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| 4 Birds of Paradise
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| 3 Flametongue Kavu
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| 3 Llanowar Elves
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| 4 Merfolk Looter
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| 3 Phantom Centaur
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| 4 Wild Mongrel
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| Enchantments
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| 4 Opposition
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| 3 Squirrel Nest
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| Instants
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| 4 Circular Logic
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| 3 Fire/Ice
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| Sorceries
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| 3 Deep Analysis
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| Lands
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| 8 Forest
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| 5 Island
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| 3 Karplusan Forest
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| 2 Shivan Reef
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| 4 Yavimaya Coast
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| Sideboard
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| 1 Flametongue Kavu
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| 3 Gainsay
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| 3 Quiet Speculation
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| 2 Ray of Revelation
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| 4 Roar of the Wurm
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| 2 Simoon
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| </d>
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| ====[[Brian Kibler]], 11th Place====
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| "Kibler's green-white-red 'Red Zone 2K2' deck loves to put creatures into the '[[Red Zone]]'; that is, attack with them! This aggressive deck can put over thirty creatures on the board. And with Glory in the graveyard, few defenses can prevail against their onslaught."
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| <d title="Red Zone 2K2">
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| Creatures
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| 4 Anurid Brushhopper
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| 4 Birds of Paradise
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| 4 Flametongue Kavu
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| 3 Glory
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| 3 Llanowar Elves
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| 4 Phantom Centaur
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| 4 Wild Mongrel
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| Instants
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| 4 Call of the Herd
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| 3 Fire/Ice
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| 2 Wax/Wane
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| Sorceries
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| 3 Living Wish
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| Lands
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| 7 Forest
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| 4 Brushland
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| 2 City of Brass
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| 4 Karplusan Forest
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| 2 Mountain
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| 3 Plains
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| Sideboard
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| 1 City of Brass
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| 1 Genesis
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| 2 Global Ruin
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| 1 Glory
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| 1 Intrepid Hero
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| 1 Phantom Nishoba
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| 3 Reprisal
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| 2 Simoon
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| 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
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| 1 Thornscape Battlemage
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| 1 Thunderscape Battlemage
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| </d>
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| ====[[Raphael Levy]], 16th Place====
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| "Levy's blue-green 'Le Wonder Goose' deck features a ton of small green creatures like Nimble Mongoose and Werebear. With Careful Study and Mental Note to get to threshold, however, those small creatures quickly turn into real monsters!"
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| <d title="Le Wonder Goose">
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| Creatures
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| 2 Genesis
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| 4 Nimble Mongoose
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| 3 Setons Scout
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| 4 Werebear
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| 4 Wild Mongrel
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| 4 Wonder
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| Instants
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| 4 Mental Note
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| 1 Rushing River
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| Sorceries
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| 4 Breakthrough
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| 4 Careful Study
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| 4 Roar of the Wurm
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| Lands
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| 8 Forest
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| 10 Island
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| 4 Yavimaya Coast
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| Sideboard
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| 4 Compost
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| 3 Disrupt
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| 3 Phantom Centaur
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| 2 Ray of Revelation
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| 2 Repulse
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| 1 Rushing River
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| </d>
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| ===2003 World Championship Decks, Berlin===
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| The 2003 World Championship took place on August 6–10, 2003 in Berlin, Germany.
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| 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.
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| ====[[Daniel Zink]], World Champion====
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| "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."
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| <d title="White-Blue-Green Wake">
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| Artifacts
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| 1 Mirari
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| Enchantments
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| 3 Compulsion
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| 3 Mirari's Wake
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| Instants
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| 1 Circular Logic
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| 3 Cunning Wish
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| 4 Mana Leak
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| 3 Moment's Peace
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| 3 Renewed Faith
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| 2 Vengeful Dreams
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| Sorceries
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| 2 Decree of Justice
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| 4 Deep Analysis
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| 4 Wrath of God
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| Lands
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| 2 Elfhame Palace
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| 2 Flooded Strand
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| 4 Forest
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| 7 Island
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| 4 Krosan Verge
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| 4 Plains
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| 4 Skycloud Expanse
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| Sideboard
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| 3 Anurid Brushhopper
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| 1 Circular Logic
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| 2 Exalted Angel
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| 1 Hunting Pack
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| 1 Krosan Reclamation
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| 1 Ray of Distortion
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| 3 Ray of Revelation
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| 1 Renewed Faith
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| 1 Vengeful Dreams
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| 1 Wing Shards
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| </d>
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| ====[[Dave Humpherys]], Semifinalist====
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| "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."
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| <d title="Blue-Green Madness">
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| Creatures
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| 4 Aquamoeba
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| 3 Arrogant Wurm
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| 4 Basking Rootwalla
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| 4 Wild Mongrel
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| 3 Wonder
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| Instants
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| 4 Circular Logic
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| 1 Krosan Reclamation
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| 1 Ray of Revelation
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| 3 Unsummon
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| Sorceries
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| 4 Careful Study
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| 2 Deep Analysis
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| 2 Quiet Speculation
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| 3 Roar of the Wurm
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| Lands
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| 1 Centaur Garden
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| 2 City of Brass
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| 8 Forest
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| 11 Island
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| Sideboard
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| 1 Deep Analysis
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| 2 Envelop
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| 1 Krosan Reclamation
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| 2 Mana Leak
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| 2 Nantuko Vigilante
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| 2 Phantom Centaur
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| 1 Ray of Revelation
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| 2 Stupefying Touch
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| 1 Unsummon
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| 1 Wonder
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| </d>
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| ====[[Wolfgang Eder]], Quarterfinalist====
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| "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."
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| <d title="Goblin Bidding">
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| Creatures
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| 3 Gempalm Incinerator
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| 1 Goblin Grappler
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| 4 Goblin Piledriver
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| 2 Goblin Sharpshooter
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| 4 Goblin Sledder
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| 3 Goblin Taskmaster
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| 4 Goblin Warchief
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| 4 Siege-Gang Commander
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| 3 Skirk Prospector
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| 4 Sparksmith
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| Instants
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| 3 Smother
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| Sorceries
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| 3 Patriarch's Bidding
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| Lands
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| 4 Bloodstained Mire
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| 1 City of Brass
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| 10 Mountain
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| 3 Shadowblood Ridge
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| 4 Swamp
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| Sideboard
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| 2 Cabal Therapy
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| 2 Dark Banishing
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| 2 Flaring Pain
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| 1 Smother
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| 4 Starstorm
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| 4 Sulfuric Vortex
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| </d>
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| ====[[Peer Kröger]], Quarterfinalist====
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| "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."
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| <d title="Reanimator">
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| Creatures
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| 1 Anger
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| 1 Arcanis the Omnipotent
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| 4 Doomed Necromancer
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| 1 Phantom Nishoba
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| 1 Symbiotic Wurm
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| 1 Undead Gladiator
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| 1 Visara the Dreadful
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| Instants
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| 3 Entomb
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| 2 Smother
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| Sorceries
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| 3 Buried Alive
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| 4 Burning Wish
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| 1 Cabal Therapy
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| 1 Chainer's Edict
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| 3 Innocent Blood
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| 1 Recoup
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| 3 Stitch Together
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| 4 Zombify
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| Lands
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| 4 Barren Moor
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| 4 Bloodstained Mire
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| 6 Mountain
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| 2 Shadowblood Ridge
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| 9 Swamp
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| Sideboard
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| 1 Buried Alive
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| 3 Cabal Therapy
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| 1 Decompose
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| 1 Demolish
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| 1 Guiltfeeder
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| 1 Haunting Echoes
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| 1 Last Rites
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| 1 Patriarch's Bidding
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| 1 Pyroclasm
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| 1 Recoup
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| 1 Sickening Dreams
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| 1 Soul Feast
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| 1 Stitch Together
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| </d>
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| ===2004 World Championship Deck, San Francisco===
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| The 2004 World Championship took place on September 1–5, 2004 in San Francisco, California in the United States of America.
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| 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.
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| ====[[Julien Nuijten]], World Champion====
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| "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."
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| <d title="Green-White Astral Slide">
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| Creatures
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| 4 Viridian Shaman
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| 4 Eternal Witness
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| 4 Eternal Dragon
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| Enchantments
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| 4 Astral Slide
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| Instants
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| 4 Renewed Faith
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| 2 Wing Shards
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| Sorceries
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| 2 Akroma's Vengeance
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| 2 Decree of Justice
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| 1 Plow Under
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| 4 Rampant Growth
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| 4 Wrath of God
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| Lands
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| 7 Forest
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| 6 Plains
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| 4 Secluded Steppe
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| 4 Tranquil Thicket
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| 4 Windswept Heath
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| Sideboard
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| 4 Oxidize
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| 2 Rude Awakening
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| 3 Scrabbling Claws
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| 3 Circle of Protection: Red
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| 3 Plow Under
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| </d>
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| ====[[Aeo Paquette]], Finalist====
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| "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."
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| <d title="Affinity">
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| Artifacts
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| 4 Arcbound Ravager
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| 4 Arcbound Worker
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| 4 Chrome Mox
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| 4 Cranial Plating
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| 4 Frogmite
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| 4 Ornithopter
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| 4 Welding Jar
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| Creatures
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| 4 Disciple of the Vault
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| 2 Somber Hoverguard
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| Instants
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| 4 Shrapnel Blast
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| Sorceries
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| 4 Thoughtcast
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| Lands
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| 3 Blinkmoth Nexus
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| 4 Great Furnace
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| 3 Glimmervoid
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| 4 Seat of the Synod
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| 4 Vault of Whispers
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| Sideboard
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| 4 Furnace Dragon
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| 4 Seething Song
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| 3 Serum Visions
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| 4 Annul
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| </d>
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| ====[[Manuel Bevand]], Semifinalist====
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| "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."
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| <d title="Myr Incubator Combo">
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| Artifacts
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| 4 Chrome Mox
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| 1 Goblin Charbelcher
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| 4 Krark-Clan Ironworks
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| 4 Myr Incubator
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| 4 Pentad Prism
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| 3 Talisman of Dominance
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| 3 Talisman of Progress
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| Instants
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| 4 Condescend
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| 3 Thirst for Knowledge
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| Sorceries
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| 3 Fabricate
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| 1 Fireball
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| 3 Serum Visions
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| 4 Thoughtcast
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| Lands
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| 2 Ancient Den
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| 4 Darksteel Citadel
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| 4 Great Furnace
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| 4 Seat of the Synod
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| 3 Tree of Tales
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| 2 Vault of Whispers
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| Sideboard
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| 4 Mana Leak
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| 4 Furnace Dragon
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| 4 Seething Song
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| 3 Pyroclasm
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| </d>
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| ====[[Gabriel Nassif]], Quarterfinalist====
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| "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."
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| <d title="Blue-White Anti-Affinity Control">
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| Artifacts
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| 3 Wayfarer's Bauble
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| Creatures
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| 2 Eternal Dragon
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| 3 Exalted Angel
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| Instants
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| 3 Annul
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| 3 Condescend
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| 4 Mana Leak
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| 3 Rewind
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| 4 Thirst for Knowledge
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| Sorceries
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| 2 Akroma's Vengeance
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| 4 Decree of Justice
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| 4 Wrath of God
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| Lands
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| 4 Cloudpost
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| 4 Flooded Strand
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| 7 Island
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| 7 Plains
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| 3 Temple of the False God
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| Sideboard
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| 4 Purge
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| 3 Pacifism
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| 2 Relic Barrier
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| 3 Scrabbling Claws
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| 3 Stifle
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| </d>
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