Deckmasters 2001

Deckmasters 2001
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Set Information
Set symbol
Design	Richard Garfield and Jon Finkel
Release date	December, 2001
Plane	Dominaria
Set size	122 cards
Expansion code	DKM
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Deckmasters 2001 is a box set that was released in December 2001. Richard Garfield and Jon Finkel were tasked with designing decks to pit against each other. Obviously meant to be a series, referring to the Deckmaster brand, a follow-up set has never been published.

Deck Building Rules

The card pool was Ice Age and Alliances, and the reprint policy had to be taken in account. Each could only use four rare cards in the deck, and no more than two copies of any one card. Color hosers were not permitted.

Actual Match

About a month after the set was released, Garfield and Finkel played the match as promised, with Finkel winning 2 games to none. The first game was fairly even, and was lost due to Garfield making a number of mistakes based on rules that had changed since he invented the game. Game 2 wasn’t even close, with Garfield mana screwed after his first two lands, and Finkel killing him quickly with a prompt Balduvian Horde.

Contents

Deckmasters 2001 contents

The contents of the box set are:

• The two 62-card prebuilt decks, each featuring 60 white bordered Ice Age and Alliances cards and two exclusive black bordered premium cards
• Two 20-sided Spindown life counters
• A 10-by-14 inch poster of Lhurgoyf fighting Goblin Mutant
• A full-color booklet containing decklists, expert analysis, biographies, behind-the-scenes stories
• Embossed metal Deckmasters case which can hold over 700 cards in standard sized sleeves or eleven 60 card decks.

Premium cards from Deckmasters 2001

The four premium cards in the box set are:

• Icy Manipulator
• Incinerate
• Lhurgoyf
• Necropotence

Decklists

Garfield

A red / green deck. Drop creatures as fast as you can, and use the red spells to clear the way for them to attack. Most of the creatures in the deck have such a high toughness that red burn spells won't kill them.

Garfield

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Lands (25)

12 Mountain

12 Forest

1 Karplusan Forest

Creatures (17)

2 Balduvian Bears

1 Elvish Bard

2 Fyndhorn Elves

1 Folk of the Pines

2 Giant Trap Door Spider

1 Lhurgoyf

2 Storm Shaman

2 Woolly Spider

2 Yavimaya Ants

2 Yavimaya Ancients

Artifacts (7)

2 Barbed Sextant

1 Elkin Bottle

2 Phyrexian War Beast

2 Walking Wall

Instants (8)

2 Death Spark

2 Incinerate

1 Shatter

1 Bounty of the Hunt

2 Giant Growth

Sorceries (5)

1 Hurricane

1 Jokulhaups

2 Lava Burst

1 Pillage

The rares in this deck are Lhurgoyf (holographic foil), Jokulhaups, Elkin Bottle and Karplusan Forest.

Finkel

A black / red deck. The deck starts by summoning efficient, versatile and hard-to-neutralize creatures. Clear a path with spot removal, and finish by hurling great balls of fire at the opponent. Use the Necropotence whenever you can.

Finkel

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Lands (26)

12 Swamp

12 Mountain

1 Sulfurous Springs

1 Underground River

Creatures (15)

2 Abyssal Specter

2 Foul Familiar

2 Lim-Dûl's High Guard

2 Phantasmal Fiend

1 Balduvian Horde

2 Goblin Mutant

2 Orcish Cannoneers

2 Storm Shaman

Artifacts (4)

2 Icy Manipulator

2 Phyrexian War Beast

Instants (10)

2 Contagion

2 Dark Ritual

2 Dark Banishing

2 Guerrilla Tactics

2 Incinerate

Sorceries (6)

2 Soul Burn

2 Lava Burst

2 Pyroclasm

Enchantment (1)

1 Necropotence

The rares in this deck are Necropotence (holographic foil), Balduvian Horde, Sulfurous Springs and Underground River.

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External links

• Link to Richard Garfield's deck
• Link to Jon Finkel's deck