Subject: Tradewind by deckard
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 01:26:03 -0800
From: mark axelrod <deckard@armory.com>
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

The following is a tourney winning type 2 deck. On Dec 27 I took it to a
sanctioned type 2 tourney at Castle Games in Santa Rosa. The tourney was
double elimination; I won 7 out of 8 matches, and my only loss was
because of a scrub play (turn 3 phid with opponent's allure out.)

34 blue:

3 dismiss
2 dissapate
4 counterspell
2 capsize
2 impulse
2 whisper of the muse
4 tradewind rider
3 ophidian
2 floodgate
3 man o war
2 firewalker tim
1 air elemental
4 propaganda

3 black

1 disturbed burial
2 lobotomy

3 artifact

3 sapphire medallions

3 underground river
2 reflecting pools
2 undiscovered paradise
3 quicksand
12 islands

62 cards total.

sideboard:
4 chill
4 hydroblast
2 disk
3 perish
2 energy flux

This may be high, but being able to return
utitlity cards from the graveyard is a major strength to add
to this deck. Lobotomy makes this deck extremely nasty
agains pros-bloom & stompy (no orbs? no geddon? gee, sorry.)
The strongest part played by lobotomy is the destruction of
other control decks. For my final matches I had to play the
same monoblue deck twice. In each game, lobotomy played a decisive
role when I was able to either remove my opponent's counterspells
or capsizes. My last two games ended with concessions after I
lobotomized his counters and dropped tim, phid, and tradewind.

The strength of this deck is through the creatures; Tradewind, Floodgate
and ophidian. When in play together, These three cards can deal with
almost any threat in the game except pro-blue creatures such a scraggy.
luckily, the sideboard contains 3 perish and 2 disk for just such
occasions.