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'''Team CMU''' was an influential professional Magic: The Gathering team from 1997-2001 known for innovating numerous deck archetypes and strategies and producing many of Magic's future developers, writers and champions.<ref>Heiss, N. (2003). ''The History of Team CMU: Part 1''. Retrieved on August 8, 2018 from [https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010206a https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010206a]</ref><ref>Heiss, N. (2003). ''The History of Team CMU: Part 2''. Retrieved on August 8, 2018 from [https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010213a https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010213a]</ref><ref>Heiss, N. (2003). ''The History of Team CMU: Part 3''. Retrieved on August 8, 2018 from [https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010302e https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010302e]</ref> It included such future famous persons as: [[Erik Lauer]], [[Andrew Cuneo]], [[Randy Buehler]], [[Mike Turian]], [[Aaron Forsythe]], [[Brian Schneider]], [[Nate Heiss]] and [[Gary Wise]]. The team was formed to prepare for Pro Tour Chicago 1997 and was named after the university where several of its originating members were attending, Carnegie Mellon University.<ref>MTG Breakdown. (November 28, 2017). ''MTG Breakdown Rewind - Randy Buehler at Pro Tour Chicago 1997'' [Video]. Retrieved on August 8, 2018 from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km8AMFUetuc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km8AMFUetuc]</ref>
'''Team CMU''' was an influential professional Magic: The Gathering team from 1997-2001 known for innovating numerous deck archetypes and strategies and producing many of Magic's future developers, writers and champions.<ref>Heiss, N. (2003). ''The History of Team CMU: Part 1''. Retrieved on August 8, 2018 from [https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010206a https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010206a]</ref><ref>Heiss, N. (2003). ''The History of Team CMU: Part 2''. Retrieved on August 8, 2018 from [https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010213a https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010213a]</ref><ref>Heiss, N. (2003). ''The History of Team CMU: Part 3''. Retrieved on August 8, 2018 from [https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010302e https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010302e]</ref> It included such future famous persons as: [[Erik Lauer]], [[Andrew Cuneo]], [[Randy Buehler]], [[Mike Turian]], [[Aaron Forsythe]], [[Brian Schneider]], [[Nate Heiss]] and [[Gary Wise]]. The team was formed to prepare for [Pro Tour Chicago 1997] and was named after the university where several of its originating members were attending, Carnegie Mellon University.<ref>MTG Breakdown. (November 28, 2017). ''MTG Breakdown Rewind - Randy Buehler at Pro Tour Chicago 1997'' [Video]. Retrieved on August 8, 2018 from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km8AMFUetuc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km8AMFUetuc]</ref>


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Revision as of 09:51, 8 August 2018

Team CMU was an influential professional Magic: The Gathering team from 1997-2001 known for innovating numerous deck archetypes and strategies and producing many of Magic's future developers, writers and champions.[1][2][3] It included such future famous persons as: Erik Lauer, Andrew Cuneo, Randy Buehler, Mike Turian, Aaron Forsythe, Brian Schneider, Nate Heiss and Gary Wise. The team was formed to prepare for [Pro Tour Chicago 1997] and was named after the university where several of its originating members were attending, Carnegie Mellon University.[4]

Decks

Lauer-Potence, Pro Tour Chicago 1997

Lands (24)

2 Bad River

4 Badlands

3 Gemstone Mine

3 Lake of the Dead

4 Scrubland

8 Swamp

Creatures (9)

1 Ihsan's Shade

4 Knight of Stromgald

4 Order of the Ebon Hand

Instants and Sorceries (27)

4 Demonic Consultation

3 Disenchant

4 Drain Life

2 Firestorm

4 Hymn to Tourach

2 Incinerate

4 Lightning Bolt

4 Necropotence

Sideboard (15)

2 Circle of Protection: Black

1 Disenchant

1 Firestorm

3 Honorable Passage

2 Mind Warp

3 Pyroblast

3 Terror


Iron City Beat-Down, Pro Tour Los Angeles 1998

Lands (26)

3 Ancient Tomb

4 Wasteland

19 Forest

Artifacts (4)

4 Cursed Scroll

Creatures (22)

3 Horned Sliver

4 Metallic Sliver

4 Muscle Sliver

4 Rootwalla

4 Skyshroud Ranger

3 Trained Armodon

Instants and Sorceries (8)

4 Elvish Fury

4 Winters Grasp


Turbo Mulch, US Nationals 1998

Lands (26)

4 Brushland

4 Grasslands

2 Quicksand

2 Wasteland

7 Forest

7 Plains

Artifacts (4)

4 Scroll Rack

Creatures (2)

2 Archangel

Enchantments (5)

1 Aura of Silence

4 Oath of Druids

Instants and Sorceries (23)

2 Cataclysm

2 Creeping Mold

2 Disenchant

2 Enlightened Tutor

4 Gaea's Blessing

3 Gerrard's Wisdom

4 Mulch

4 Wrath of God

Sideboard (15)

4 Abeyance

2 Armageddon

1 Choke

1 Circle of Protection: Red

2 Disenchant

1 Elephant Grass

1 Emerald Charm

1 Gerrard's Wisdom

2 Jester's Cap


Horse Craft, World Championships 1998

Lands (22)

12 Forest

10 Swamp

Artifacts (3)

3 Scroll Rack

Creatures (17)

1 Hermit Druid

2 Mindless Automaton

1 Mogg Fanatic

1 Spike Breeder

2 Spike Feeder

3 Spike Weaver

1 Stronghold Assassin

2 Workhorse

4 Wall of Blossoms

Enchantments (15)

4 Earthcraft

4 Overgrowth

4 Recurring Nightmare

3 Survival of the Fittest

Instants and Sorceries (3)

3 Corpse Dance


Counter Phoenix, World Championships 1998

Lands (29)

1 Caldera Lake

4 Reflecting Pool

14 Island

10 Mountain

Artifacts (1)

1 Scroll Rack

Creatures (5)

1 Mogg Fanatic

4 Shard Phoenix

Instants and Sorceries (25)

3 Capsize

4 Counterspell

2 Dismiss

4 Forbid

4 Intuition

4 Mana leak

4 Shock

Sideboard (15)

1 Dismiss

3 Mogg Fanatic

3 Portcullis

3 Shattering Pulse

2 Stalking Stones

3 Thalakos Drifters


CMU Blue, World Championships 1998

Lands (26)

4 Quicksand

4 Stalking Stones

18 Island

Artifacts (4)

4 Nevinyrral's Disk

Creatures (1)

1 Rainbow Efreet

Instants and Sorceries (29)

4 Counterspell

4 Dismiss

2 Dissipate

3 Forbid

4 Force Spike

4 Impulse

3 Mana Leak

1 Memory Lapse

4 Whispers of the Muse

Sideboard (15)

2 Capsize

1 Grindstone

4 Hydroblast

4 Sea Sprite

4 Wasteland


Turbo Tradewind (aka The Mawcor Deck), Pro Tour Chicago 1998

Lands (23)

4 Stalking Stones

19 Island

Artifacts (3)

3 Mox Diamond

Creatures (18)

3 Keeper of the Mind

4 Manakin

4 Mawcor

3 Thalakos Drifters

4 Tradewind Rider

Enchantments (7)

4 Curiosity

2 Legacy's Allure

1 Mind Over Matter

Instants and Sorceries (9)

2 Capsize

3 Counterspell

4 Forbid

Sideboard (15)

1 Capsize

4 Hammerhead Shark

2 Legacy's Allure

1 Mind Over Matter

3 Propaganda

1 Rootwater Hunter

1 Thalakos Drifters

2 Whispers of the Muse


CMU Academy, Pro Tour Rome 1998

Lands (21)

3 City of Brass

4 Tolarian Academy

3 Tundra

4 Underground Sea

3 Volcanic Island

4 Wasteland

Artifacts (18)

4 Lotus Petal

4 Mana Vault

1 Mind Over Matter

4 Mox Diamond

3 Scroll Rack

2 Urza's Bauble

Enchantments (1)

1 Mind Over Matter

Instants and Sorceries (21)

3 Abeyance

2 Counterspell

4 Impulse

1 Stroke of Genius

4 Time Spiral

3 Vampiric Tutor

4 Windfall

Sideboard (15)

1 Abeyance

1 Capsize

4 Chill

1 City of Solitude

1 Gloom

1 Gorilla Shaman

2 Hydroblast

1 Perish

3 Pyroblast


Whale Rec/Sur, Pro Tour Rome 1998

Lands (20)

4 Bayou

2 Gaea's Cradle

2 Savannah

2 Taiga

2 Tropical Island

3 Wasteland

3 Forest

2 Swamp

Creatures (27)

2 Ashen Ghoul

4 Birds of Paradise

1 Cartographer

3 Elves of Deep Shadow

2 Fyndhorn Elves

1 Gorilla Shaman

1 Great Whale

1 Hermit Druid

1 Krovikan Horror

1 Lhurgoyf

2 Llanowar Elves

1 Quirion Ranger

1 Ravenous Baboons

1 Spike Feeder

1 Triskelion

1 Uktabi Orangutan

2 Wall of Roots

1 Wood Elves

Enchantments (10)

2 Mirri's Guile

4 Recurring Nightmare

4 Survival of the Fittest

Instants and Sorceries (3)

2 Buried Alive

1 Vampiric Tutor

Sideboard (15)

2 Ashen Ghoul

2 Brass Man

1 Granger Guildmage

1 Krovikan Horror

1 Monk Realist

1 Night Soil

3 Red Elemental Blast

1 Sand Golem

1 Titania's Song

1 Vampiric Tutor

1 Wall of Blossoms


CMU Blue, World Championships 1999

Lands (28)

4 Faerie Conclave

4 Stalking Stones

4 Wasteland

16 Island

Artifacts (4)

4 Powder Keg

Creatures (3)

3 Masticore

Enchantments (4)

4 Treachery

Instants and Sorceries (21)

4 Counterspell

4 Dismiss

4 Forbid

4 Mana Leak

1 Miscalculation

4 Whispers of the Muse

Sideboard (15)

4 Annul

1 Capsize

3 Chill

3 Legacy's Allure

1 Masticore

2 Maze of Shadows

1 Stroke of Genius


Squirrel Prison, Grand Prix Memphis 1999

Lands (24)

2 Slippery Karst

4 Treetop Village

8 Forest

10 Island

Creatures (24)

4 Deranged Hermit

3 Heart Warden

2 Masticore

2 Morphling

4 Priest of Titania

1 Wizard Mentor

4 Yavimaya Elder

4 Yavimaya Granger

Enchantments (8)

4 Opposition

4 Treachery

Instants and Sorceries (4)

4 Annul

Sideboard (15)

2 Arcane Laboratory

1 Confiscate

2 Douse

2 Gaea's Embrace

2 Harmonic Convergence

2 Quash

2 Powder Keg

2 Power Sink


Angry Hermit, US Nationals 2000

Lands (25)

2 Gaea's Cradle

4 Karplusan Forest

4 Rishadan Port

2 Treetop Village

11 Forest

2 Mountain

Creatures (27)

4 Avalanche Riders

4 Birds of Paradise

4 Deranged Hermit

4 Llanowar Elves

3 Masticore

2 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary

3 Skyshroud Poacher

3 Yavimaya Elder

Instants and Sorceries (8)

4 Arc Lightning

4 Plow Under

Sideboard (15)

2 Ancient Hydra

4 Blastoderm

2 Boil

1 Masticore

1 Splinter

3 Thran Foundry

2 Uktabi Orangutan


Grizzly Rebels, US Nationals 2000

Lands (23)

19 Plains

4 Rishadan Port

Creatures (20)

4 Fresh Volunteers

4 Longbow Archer

4 Mother of Runes

4 Ramosian Sergeant

4 Steadfast Guard

Enchantments (9)

4 Crusade

1 Glorious Anthem

4 Parallax Wave

Instants and Sorceries (8)

3 Armageddon

3 Disenchant

2 Reverent Mantra

Sideboard (15)

1 Absolute Law

1 Armageddon

1 Circle of Protection: Red

3 Defender en-Vec

1 Disenchant

1 Erase

1 Glorious Anthem

2 Light of Day

4 Wrath of God

References

  1. ↑ Heiss, N. (2003). The History of Team CMU: Part 1. Retrieved on August 8, 2018 from https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010206a
  2. ↑ Heiss, N. (2003). The History of Team CMU: Part 2. Retrieved on August 8, 2018 from https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010213a
  3. ↑ Heiss, N. (2003). The History of Team CMU: Part 3. Retrieved on August 8, 2018 from https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=sb20010302e
  4. ↑ MTG Breakdown. (November 28, 2017). MTG Breakdown Rewind - Randy Buehler at Pro Tour Chicago 1997 [Video]. Retrieved on August 8, 2018 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km8AMFUetuc
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