World Championship Decks 2003
Create X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying. Cycling {2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may pay {X}. If you do, create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
Destroy target enchantment. Flashback {G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Destroy target enchantment. Flashback {G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Destroy target enchantment. Flashback {G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Exile X target attacking creatures.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Exile X target attacking creatures.
Discard a card: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
Target player sacrifices an attacking creature of their choice. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Flying Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life. Morph {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard. Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard. Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard. Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
{1}{U}, Discard a card: Draw a card. {1}{U}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Draw a card.
Target player draws two cards. Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Target player draws two cards. Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Target player draws two cards. Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
You may reveal an instant card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand. Exile Cunning Wish.
Counter target sorcery spell.
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Flashback {4}{W}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature's activated abilities can't be activated.
Search target player's library for up to three cards with flashback and put them into that player's graveyard. Then the player shuffles.
You gain 6 life. Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may gain 2 life.
You gain 6 life. Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may gain 2 life.
Flying As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.
Flying As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.
Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice. Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name. Flashback—Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name. Flashback—Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name. Flashback—Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
{T}: Draw three cards. {2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, defending player loses 1 life for each card in their graveyard.
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.
Haste As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.
You may reveal a sorcery card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand. Exile Burning Wish.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Sickening Dreams deals X damage to each creature and each player.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
Damage can't be prevented this turn. Flashback {R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Cycling {1}{R} ({1}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may have it deal X damage to target creature, where X is the number of Goblins on the battlefield.
Goblin spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Goblins you control have haste.
Provoke (Whenever this creature attacks, you may have target creature defending player controls untap and block it if able.)
When this creature enters, create three 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens. {1}{R}, Sacrifice a Goblin: This creature deals 2 damage to any target.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player. If a player would gain life, that player gains no life instead.
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Trample Madness {2}{G} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
{1}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn. Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Create a 4/4 green Beast creature token. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)
Target player shuffles up to two target cards from their graveyard into their library. Flashback {1}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Target player shuffles up to two target cards from their graveyard into their library. Flashback {1}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Target player shuffles up to two target cards from their graveyard into their library. Flashback {1}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Protection from black This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.
Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.
Morph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Discard two cards: Exile this creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.
{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest card and a Plains card, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Exile all cards from target player's graveyard other than basic land cards. For each card exiled this way, search that player's library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Discard any number of cards. Target player reveals their hand, then you choose a nonland card from it for each card discarded this way. That player discards those cards.
Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.
Destroy target creature with mana value 3 or less. It can't be regenerated.
Destroy target creature with mana value 3 or less. It can't be regenerated.
Destroy target creature with mana value 3 or less. It can't be regenerated.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
{1}{B}, Discard a card: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep. Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Flying {T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Destroy target artifact or land.
Trample This creature enters with seven +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.
Protection from blue (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything blue.) Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Goblin.
This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever a creature dies, untap this creature. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.
Sacrifice a Goblin: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.
{1}{R}: Target Goblin creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Morph {R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Target sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (Mana cost includes color.) Flashback {3}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Target sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (Mana cost includes color.) Flashback {3}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sacrifice a Goblin: Add {R}.
{T}: This creature deals X damage to target creature and X damage to you, where X is the number of Goblins on the battlefield.
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Flashback {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token. Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Discard a card: This creature gets +1/+1 and becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.
When this creature dies, create seven 1/1 green Insect creature tokens.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {3}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
{T}: Add {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.
{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.
This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.
{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.
{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.
{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.
Starstorm deals X damage to each creature. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
({T}: Add {W}.)
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The Top 8 is familiar territory for professional Magic player Dave Humpherys. With over $130,000 in career winnings and a Pro Tour championship on his resume, "The Hump" advanced to the Worlds semifinals for the second year in a row where he lost to eventual champion Daniel Zink. The blue-green madness deck he played has been a Standard mainstay for more than a year. It revolves around Torment madness cards like Basking Rootwalla and Circular Logic, together with discard-enablers like Aquamoeba and Wild Mongrel. Humpherys, who recently earned his Ph.D. from MIT, credits this version of the deck to Norway's Sigurd Eskeland.
Daniel Zink, a student from Bochum, Germany, players the control deck that defined this year's World Championships. The white-blue-green "Wake" deck is named after the powerful enchantment that's the heart of the deck. Once 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. Zink had help from fellow German and 2002-2003 Player of the Year Kai Budde in adapting the "Wake" deck to the post—Eigth Edition environment.
Hometown hero Peer Kröger played his own version of the classic "Reanimator" deck to an impressive record during this year's World Championships. The twenty-eight-year-old communications and computer science student nicknamed his deck "Herbert Wise" after the famous H. P. Lovecraft work "Herbert Wise—Reanimator." Winning with this deck is a two-step process: Step 1. Use Entomb or Buried Alive to quickly get daunting creatures into the graveyard. Step 2. Bring the creature back to life with Zombify or Doomed Necromancer. The mostly black deck also uses Burning Wish to find just the right answers to deal with opponents' plans.
Wolfgang Eder introduced this black-red "Goblin Bidding" deck to the world at this year's European Championships. The twenty-two-year-old student from Weinheim, Germany, says the inspiration for the deck came from trying to give the typical Goblin tribe something to do in the midgame. He achieved this by adding black to the deck for Patriarch's Bidding, which brings every Goblin in the graveyard back to play. And with cards like Goblin Warchief and Siege-Gang Commander, those Goblins have haste and bring friends with them! A resolved Patriarch's Bidding is usually game over.
| Card Details | Number | Rarity | Price/Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
Decree of Justice | dz8 | Rare | $0.39 0% |
Ray of Revelation | dh20 | Common | $0.25 0% |
Ray of Revelation | dh20sb | Common | N/A 0% |
Ray of Revelation | dz20sb | Common | N/A 0% |
Vengeful Dreams | dz21 | Rare | N/A 0% |
Vengeful Dreams | dz21sb | Rare | N/A 0% |
Aquamoeba | dh24 | Common | $0.45 0% |
Wing Shards | dz25sb | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Exalted Angel | dz28sb | Rare | $2.27 0% |
Circular Logic | dh33 | Uncommon | $0.95 0% |
Circular Logic | dz33 | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Circular Logic | dz33sb | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Compulsion | dz34 | Uncommon | $0.33 0% |
Deep Analysis | dh36 | Common | N/A 0% |
Deep Analysis | dh36sb | Common | $0.64 0% |
Deep Analysis | dz36 | Common | N/A 0% |
Cunning Wish | dz37 | Rare | N/A 0% |
Envelop | dh39sb | Common | $0.64 0% |
Ray of Distortion | dz42sb | Common | N/A 0% |
Stupefying Touch | dh48sb | Uncommon | $0.25 0% |
Quiet Speculation | dh49 | Uncommon | $0.75 0% |
Renewed Faith | dz50 | Common | N/A 0% |
Renewed Faith | dz50sb | Common | N/A 0% |
Wonder | dh54 | Uncommon | $3.71 0% |
Wonder | dh54sb | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Chainer's Edict | pk57 | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Wrath of God | dz58 | Rare | $1.16 0% |
Cabal Therapy | pk62 | Uncommon | $13.00 0% |
Cabal Therapy | pk62sb | Uncommon | $12.98 0% |
Cabal Therapy | we62sb | Uncommon | $11.00 0% |
Arcanis the Omnipotent | pk66 | Rare | N/A 0% |
Guiltfeeder | pk68sb | Rare | $3.86 0% |
Careful Study | dh70 | Common | $1.36 0% |
Stitch Together | pk72 | Uncommon | $4.38 0% |
Stitch Together | pk72sb | Uncommon | $2.68 0% |
Anger | pk77 | Uncommon | $4.00 0% |
Burning Wish | pk83 | Rare | $2.08 0% |
Sickening Dreams | pk83sb | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Mana Leak | dh89sb | Common | $0.99 0% |
Mana Leak | dz89 | Common | N/A 0% |
Flaring Pain | we89sb | Common | $1.18 0% |
Gempalm Incinerator | we94 | Uncommon | $0.99 0% |
Goblin Warchief | we97 | Uncommon | $4.43 0% |
Goblin Grappler | we100 | Common | N/A 0% |
Siege-Gang Commander | we103 | Rare | $1.00 0% |
Sulfuric Vortex | we106sb | Rare | $1.97 0% |
Unsummon | dh112 | Common | N/A 0% |
Unsummon | dh112sb | Common | N/A 0% |
Buried Alive | pk118 | Uncommon | $3.15 0% |
Buried Alive | pk118sb | Uncommon | $7.49 0% |
Arrogant Wurm | dh120 | Uncommon | $3.54 0% |
Basking Rootwalla | dh121 | Common | $2.10 0% |
Hunting Pack | dz121sb | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Krosan Reclamation | dh122 | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Krosan Reclamation | dh122sb | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Krosan Reclamation | dz122sb | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Dark Banishing | we123sb | Common | N/A 0% |
Phantom Centaur | dh127sb | Uncommon | $0.99 0% |
Decompose | pk128sb | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Nantuko Vigilante | dh132sb | Common | N/A 0% |
Entomb | pk132 | Rare | $6.52 0% |
Anurid Brushhopper | dz137sb | Rare | N/A 0% |
Mirari's Wake | dz139 | Rare | $6.03 0% |
Doomed Necromancer | pk140 | Rare | $1.49 0% |
Krosan Verge | dz141 | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Haunting Echoes | pk142sb | Rare | $4.82 0% |
Innocent Blood | pk145 | Common | $4.00 0% |
Last Rites | pk146sb | Common | $1.65 0% |
Patriarch's Bidding | pk161sb | Rare | $0.25 0% |
Patriarch's Bidding | we161 | Rare | $4.99 0% |
Soul Feast | pk165sb | Uncommon | $0.33 0% |
Smother | pk170 | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Smother | we170 | Uncommon | $6.56 0% |
Smother | we170sb | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Zombify | pk174 | Uncommon | $1.48 0% |
Undead Gladiator | pk178 | Rare | $0.99 0% |
Visara the Dreadful | pk179 | Rare | $2.00 0% |
Demolish | pk183sb | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Phantom Nishoba | pk190 | Rare | $1.30 0% |
Goblin Piledriver | we205 | Rare | $5.41 0% |
Goblin Sharpshooter | we207 | Rare | $4.00 0% |
Goblin Sledder | we209 | Common | N/A 0% |
Pyroclasm | pk210sb | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Goblin Taskmaster | we210 | Common | $0.74 0% |
Recoup | pk216 | Uncommon | $1.50 0% |
Recoup | pk216sb | Uncommon | $0.45 0% |
Skirk Prospector | we230 | Common | $2.93 0% |
Sparksmith | we235 | Common | $0.45 0% |
Moment's Peace | dz251 | Common | $3.56 0% |
Roar of the Wurm | dh266 | Uncommon | $0.45 0% |
Wild Mongrel | dh283 | Common | $0.65 0% |
Symbiotic Wurm | pk289 | Rare | $3.69 0% |
Mirari | dz303 | Rare | $2.99 0% |
Barren Moor | pk312 | Common | $2.49 0% |
Bloodstained Mire | pk313 | Rare | $14.54 0% |
Bloodstained Mire | we313 | Rare | $18.70 0% |
Centaur Garden | dh316 | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Flooded Strand | dz316 | Rare | $8.27 0% |
City of Brass | dh322 | Rare | $12.99 0% |
City of Brass | we322 | Rare | N/A 0% |
Elfhame Palace | dz324 | Uncommon | N/A 0% |
Shadowblood Ridge | pk326 | Rare | $0.75 0% |
Shadowblood Ridge | we326 | Rare | $0.45 0% |
Skycloud Expanse | dz327 | Rare | $1.17 0% |
Starstorm | we328sb | Rare | $0.45 0% |
Plains | dz331 | Common | N/A 0% |
Plains | dz332 | Common | N/A 0% |
Plains | dz333 | Common | N/A 0% |
Island | dz335 | Common | N/A 0% |
Island | dh336 | Common | $2.99 0% |
Island | dz336 | Common | N/A 0% |
Island | dh337 | Common | N/A 0% |
Island | dz337 | Common | N/A 0% |
Island | dh338 | Common | $0.45 0% |
Swamp | pk339 | Common | $0.88 0% |
Swamp | we339 | Common | $2.15 0% |
Swamp | pk340 | Common | $1.99 0% |
Swamp | we340 | Common | N/A 0% |
Swamp | pk341 | Common | $1.99 0% |
Swamp | we342 | Common | N/A 0% |
Mountain | we343 | Common | $1.99 0% |
Mountain | pk344 | Common | $2.49 0% |
Mountain | we344 | Common | $1.99 0% |
Mountain | pk345 | Common | $1.77 0% |
Mountain | pk346 | Common | $1.26 0% |
Mountain | we346 | Common | N/A 0% |
Forest | dz347 | Common | N/A 0% |
Forest | dh348 | Common | N/A 0% |
Forest | dz348 | Common | N/A 0% |
Forest | dh349 | Common | $0.57 0% |
Forest | dz349 | Common | N/A 0% |
Forest | dh350 | Common | $2.99 0% |
2003 World Championships Ad | 0 | — | $0.99 0% |
Blank Card | 00 | — | $1.74 0% |
Dave Humpherys Bio | dh0a | — | $1.74 0% |
Dave Humpherys Decklist | dh0b | — | $39.48 (LP) 0% |
Daniel Zink Bio | dz0a | — | $0.61 0% |
Daniel Zink Decklist | dz0b | — | $2.00 0% |
Peer Kröger Bio | pk0a | — | $0.89 (LP) 0% |
Peer Kröger Decklist | pk0b | — | $1.03 (LP) 0% |
Wolfgang Eder Bio | we0a | — | $0.10 0% |
Wolfgang Eder Decklist | we0b | — | $1.99 (MP) 0% |