"The Decks to Beat", October '97

The top decks in major tournaments from around the world are listed below. These decks are the decks to either play, or be prepared for... because you will be playing against them. I'm still looking for strong deck archetypes, so if you have a deck listing you're willing to share of a strong tourney winning deck, please send it in.
Kimmo Hovi's "Blue" Deck
4 Waterspout Djinn
3 Air Elemental
4 Ophidian
4 Man-'o-War

 4 Counterspell
4 Memory Lapse
2 Force of Will
1 Dissipate
4 Impulste
1 Binding Grasp
1 Abduction
2 Browse
 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
3 Mind Stone
3 Thawing Glaciers
4 Quicksand
15 Island
 Sideboard:
3 Shimmer
1 Binding Grasp
2 Force of Will
3 Dissipate
 Sideboard (cont):
2 Knights of the Mist
2 Undo
1 Browse
1 Flood

Alan Comer's "Goofy Gaea's" Deck
4 Incinerate
1 Hammer of Bogardan
3 Kaervek's Troch
1 Aether Flash

1 City of Solitude
4 Gaea's Blessing
3 Creeping Mold
4 Sylvan Library
 2 Disenchant
1 Island Sanctuary
3 Gerrard's Wisdom
4 Wrath of God
3 Swords to Plowshares
 3 Thran Tome
4 Thawing Glaciers
2 City of Brass
1 Gemstone Mine
1 Undiscovered Paradise
5 Mountain
5 Forest
6 Plains
 Sideboard:
1 Gerrard's Wisdom
2 Disenchant
4 Abeyance
3 Divine Offering
 Sideboard (cont):
1 COP: Red
2 Helm of Obedience
2 Jester's Cap

Gallagher's "Senor Stompy" Deck
4 Llanowar Elves
1 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Ghazban Ogre
4 Rogue Elephant
4 Spectral Bear
3 Whirling Dervish
2 Harvest Wurm
3 Jolrael's Centaur
2 Lhurgoyf
 4 Giant Growth
2 Bounty of the Hunt
1 Nature's Resurgence
 4 Winter Orb
2 Heart of Yavimaya
16 Forest
 Sideboard:
2 City of Solitude
2 Tranquil Grove
1 Whirling Dervish
3 Emerald Charm
 Sideboard (cont):
3 Uktabi Orangutan
2 Serrated Arrows
2 Hurricane

Dave Price's "Deadguy" Sligh Deck
4 Goblin Vandals
3 Goblin Digging Team
4 Ironclaw Orcs
2 Dwarven Soldier
4 Ball Lightning
2 Viashino Sandstalkers
4 Lava Hounds
 4 Incinerate
4 Hammer of Bogardan
4 Fireblast
3 Kaervak's Torch
4 Dwarven Ruins
18 Mountain
 Sideboard:
4 Anarchy
4 Detonate
 Sideboard (cont):
4 Straw Golem
3 Pyrokinesis

Dylan Chan's 4CB Deck
2 Shadow Guildmage
4 Knights of Stromgald
4 Black Knight
4 Fallen Askari
4 Nekrataal

2 Uktabi Orangutan
 4 Man-'O-War

4 Incinerate

1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Contagion

1 Disenchant
2 Swords to Plowshares
 1 Serrated Arrows
3 Winter Orb
4 City of Brass
2 Undiscoverd Paradise
2 Gemstone Mine
1 Sulfurous Springs
2 Underground River
11 Swamp
 Sideboard:
2 Pyroclasm
2 COP: Red
1 Disenchant
4 Dystopia
 Sideboard (cont):
3 Knights of the Mist
1 Winter Orb
2 Ebony Charm

Grant Mitchell's "Buried Alive" Deck
2 Nether Shadow
2 Sewer Rats
4 Black Knight
4 Knight of Stromgald
2 Krovikan Horror
4 Ashen Ghouls
2 Urborg Stalker
 2 Dark Ritual
2 Contagion
2 Drain Life
2 Urborg Justice
3 Buried Alive
2 Withering Wisps
3 Bad Moon
 2 Nevinyrral's Disk
3 Quicksand
2 Lake of the Dead
1 Thawing Glacier
17 Snow-Covered Swamp
 Sideboard:
4 Dystopia
2 Forsaken Wastes
2 Infernal Darkness
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
 Sideboard (cont):
2 Serrated Arrows
2 Winter Orb
2 Drain Life

Erik ("Mad Genius") Lauer's "Control" NecroDeck
4 Black Knight
4 Knight of Stromgald
1 Ihsan's Shade

 4 Dark Ritual
3 Demonic Consultation
4 Necropotence
3 Coercion
2 Choking Sands
3 Contagion
4 Drain Life
1 Soul Burn
 4 Nevinyrral's Disk
2 Quicksand
2 Lake of the Dead
19 Swamp
 Sideboard:
4 Dystopia
2 Choking Sands
1 Contagion
 Sideboard (cont):
3 Serrated Arrows
2 Agonizing Memories
3 Gloom

Ben Seck's "Turbo-Stasis" Deck
4 Stasis
4 Arcane Denial
4 Force of Will
2 Counterspell
2 Boomerang

2 Vampiric Tutor
 4 Enlightened Tutor
1 Kismet
1 Equipoise

2 Pyroclasm

4 Squandered Resources
 4 Howling Mine
1 Despotic Scepter
1 Feldon's Cane
2 Sheltered Valley
4 City of Brass
4 Undiscovered Paradise
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Adarkar Wastes
8 Island
 Sideboard:
2 COP: Red
2 Jokulhaups
3 Hydroblast
3 Pyroblast
 Sideboard (cont):
2 COP: Black
2 Disenchant
1 Pyroclasm

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