World Championship Decks 2004

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Whenever a player cycles a card, you may exile target creature. If you do, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

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.

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.

Flying {3}{W}{W}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep. Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Destroy target artifact creature or black creature. It can't be regenerated.

Flying {3}{W}{W}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep. Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

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

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.)

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

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 artifact or enchantment spell.

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Draw a card. Scry 2.

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.

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying

Counter target activated or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Draw two cards.

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Draw two cards.

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, exile all artifacts.

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, exile all artifacts.

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated.

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Choose one — • Untap all lands you control. • Until end of turn, lands you control become 2/2 creatures that are still lands. Entwine {2}{G} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Modular 1 (This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Modular 1 (This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact. Shrapnel Blast deals 5 damage to any target.

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. {B}{B}: Attach this Equipment to target creature you control. Equip {1}

Sacrifice an artifact: Add {C}{C}.

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact.

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Sunburst (This enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) Remove a charge counter from this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

{T}: Tap target artifact.

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

{T}: Add {C}. {1}: This land becomes a 1/1 Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land. {1}, {T}: Target Blinkmoth creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)

{3}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. This artifact deals damage equal to the number of nonland cards revealed this way to any target. If the revealed land card was a Mountain, this artifact deals double that damage instead. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

{6}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for any number of artifact cards, exile them, then create that many 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens. Then shuffle.

Flying

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

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

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

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

Sacrifice this artifact: Regenerate target artifact.

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

{T}: Add {W}.

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C} for each Locus on the battlefield.

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

{T}: Add {R}.

{T}: Add {R}.

{T}: Add {U}.

{T}: Add {U}.

{T}: Add {G}.

{T}: Add {B}.

{T}: Add {B}.

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {U}.)

({T}: Add {G}.)

({T}: Add {G}.)

({T}: Add {G}.)

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 fast beatdown 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.

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.

The youngest ever Magic® World Champion, Dutch wunderkind Julien Nuijten came out of nowhere to stun the field. Just fifteen years old, Nuijten 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.

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 Myr 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.