World Championship Decks 2003

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.

Counter target spell unless its controller pays 3.

Counter target spell unless its controller pays 3.

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.

Creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Flashback 2G (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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(T: Add R.)

(T: Add R.)

(T: Add R.)

Morph 1G (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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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(T: Add W.)

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

Search target player's library for up to three cards with flashback and put them into that player's graveyard. Then the player shuffles.