World Championship Decks 2004

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.

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.)

T: Add W.

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.)

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

Indestructible T: Add C.

Create X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying. Cycling 2W (2W, 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 2W (2W, 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.

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