World Championship Decks 2000

When this creature dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

All creatures have protection from red.

Sacrifice a land: Destroy target enchantment.

Destroy all lands.

Exile target enchantment.

{1}: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Each other non-Aura enchantment is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value.

Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in your graveyard.)

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from this enchantment: Exile target creature. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with it.

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from this enchantment: Exile target creature. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with it.

Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Black creatures can't attack or block.

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from this enchantment: Exile target land. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with it.

Lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player untaps a land they control.

Sacrifice this enchantment: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact. Search your library for an artifact card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Serra Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to your life total. When Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

If an opponent controls a Forest and you control an Island, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

If you control a creature, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

Red spells cost {2} more to cast.

Red spells cost {2} more to cast.

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Draw three cards, then discard four cards.

Counter target spell.

Enchant permanent You control enchanted permanent.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you by sources you don't control. When a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, sacrifice this enchantment.

Haste Echo {3}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, destroy target land.

Skip your draw step. Pay 1 life: Draw a card.

All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {2}."

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on this enchantment. Sacrifice this enchantment: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is the number of verse counters on this enchantment.

Destroy two target artifacts.

You may discard a Mountain card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Flameshot deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures.

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Fading 3 (This creature enters with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Fading 7 (This enchantment enters with seven fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from this enchantment: Create a green Saproling creature token. It has "This token's power and toughness are each equal to the number of fade counters on Saproling Burst." When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens created with this enchantment. They can't be regenerated.

{1}, Discard a card: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Any player may activate this ability.

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller may search their library for a creature card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Put two target lands on top of their owners' libraries.

Exile target artifact. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that artifact and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}. {4}: Untap this artifact.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you discard a card. {2}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature. {2}: Regenerate this creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you discard a card. {2}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature. {2}: Regenerate this creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you discard a card. {2}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature. {2}: Regenerate this creature.

{T}: Reveal any number of artifact cards in your hand. Add {C}{C} for each card revealed this way.

Fading 4 (This artifact enters with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player taps an untapped artifact, creature, or land they control for each fade counter on this artifact.

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Blaze deals X damage to any target.

Destroy all Islands.

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Destroy target land.

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

{T}: Add {G}.

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller may draw a card.

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact.

{T}: Add {G} for each Elf on the battlefield.

{T}: Add {G} for each Elf on the battlefield.

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

If damage would be dealt to a player, that player exiles that many cards from the top of their library instead.

{T}: Add {R}. Sacrifice this artifact: Add {R}.

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

{X}, {T}: Tap X target lands.

{X}, {T}: Tap X target lands.

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Pay 8 life: Untap this creature. This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

{X}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create X 1/1 green Snake creature tokens. Activate only as a sorcery.

{1}, {T}: Untap target artifact.

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Destroy target nonbasic land.

{3}: Each player mills two cards.

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Add {C}{C}.

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Tap target land.

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Tap target land.

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Tap target land.

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

This land enters tapped with two depletion counters on it. {T}, Remove a depletion counter from this land: Add {U}{U}. If there are no depletion counters on this land, sacrifice it.

At the beginning of the end step, if you control no creatures, sacrifice this land. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {R}.)

({T}: Add {G}.)

({T}: Add {G}.)

"World Champion" was the one honor Jon Finkel had yet to claim. His dominating performance at this year's World Championships earned him that title at last. Finkel played an explosive deck that is named after its most important card, Tinker. Fellow Team Antarctica member Dan O'Mahoney-Schwartz designed this monoblue deck. The deck used artifacts such as Grim Monolith, Metalworker, and Voltaic Key to quickly generate huge amounts of mana, and then used that mana to put large creatures into play.

Hannover, Germany native Janosch Kühn joined an elite group of players in earning his second World Championship Top 8. Kühn played a red-green deck known as "Angry 'Derm" or "Son of Hermit." The deck built up its mana early with Birds of Paradise or Llanowar Elves, and then followed that up with mana-denial cards like Stone Rain, Plow Under, and Avalanche Riders. Masticore and Blastoderm provided the finishing punch.

The 2000 World Championships was Nicolas Labarre's third Top 8 finish at a Pro Tour™ event (Rome '98, New York '99, Worlds '00). This Rennes, France native played a combo deck that he called "Chimera." This deck used searching cards like Academy Rector and Enlightened Tutor to fetch Fecundity, Saproling Cluster, and Ashnod's Altar. Once those three cards were in play, Labarre could generate as much mana as he wanted. With unlimited mana, he could play a very big Blaze or use Whetstone to immediately deck his opponent.

Quarterfinalist Tom van de Logt posted a perfect 6—0 record during the Standard portion of this year's World Championships. The 19-year-old Groesbeek, Holland native was playing a deck that had a big impact on the metagame this year, "Replenish." This deck used cards like Attunement and Frantic Search to put powerful enchantments, such as Parallax Wave and Opalescence, into the graveyard and then used Replenish to put them all back into play at once.