{"181671":{"m":{"type":"Card"}},"164999":{"OracleText":"(Finalist)\n\nEighteen-year-old Alex Borteh came on strong in the last half of the 2000-2001 Pro Tour™ season. He posted an impressive Top 8 finish at U.S. Nationals and followed that up by coming within one match of winning this year's Worlds. The soon-to-be Ohio State University freshman played a monoblue combo deck that he liked to call \"Da Folk.\" This deck wins by using Opposition and Static Orb to establish a lock down while legions of Merfolk overrun opponents' immobilized defenses.","m":{"type":"Card"}},"165031":{"SubType":"Creature — Spellshaper","P":"1","T":"1","OracleText":"U, T, Discard a card from your hand: Return target creature to its owner's hand.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"Closing time comes earlier to some than to others.","m":{"artist":"Paolo Parente","type":"Creature — Merfolk Spellshaper","mana":"{1}{U}","pt":"1/1"}},"165015":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"U\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Rob Alexander","type":"Basic Land — Island"}},"162775":{"OracleText":"Finalist\n\nProfessional Magic® player Aeo Paquette played the deck that defined the metagame at the 2004 World Championships: \"Affinity.\"\nAgainst 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.","m":{"type":"Card"}},"163767":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"At end of turn, if you control no artifacts, sacrifice Glimmervoid.\nT: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"An empty canvas holds infinite possibilities.","m":{"artist":"Lars Grant-West","type":"Land"}},"165063":{"SubType":"Artifact","OracleText":"When Tsabo’s Web comes into play, draw a card.\nLands with an activated ability that doesn’t produce mana don’t untap during their controllers’ untap steps.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Carl Critchlow","type":"Artifact","mana":"{2}"}},"165047":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"U\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Tony Szczudlo","type":"Basic Land — Island"}},"164599":{"SubType":"Summon Cleric","P":"2","T":"1","OracleText":"Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)\nIf Soltari Visionary damages any player, destroy target enchantment that player controls.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Adam Rex","type":"Creature — Soltari Cleric","mana":"{1}{W}{W}","pt":"2/2"}},"173463":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.\nT: Add R or G to your mana pool. Karplusan Forest deals 1 damage to you.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Scott Bailey","type":"Land"}},"158503":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"T: Add W to your mana pool.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Jesper Myrfors","type":"Basic Land — Plains"}},"158487":{"SubType":"Colorless","OracleText":"T: Add G to your mana pool.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Christopher Rush","type":"Basic Land — Forest"}},"164567":{"SubType":"Summon Goblin","P":"1","T":"1","OracleText":"Sacrifice Mogg Fanatic: Mogg Fanatic deals 1 damage to target creature or player.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"\"I got it! I got it! I—\"","m":{"artist":"Brom","type":"Creature — Goblin","mana":"{R}","pt":"1/1"}},"163959":{"SubType":"Summon Soldiers","P":"3","T":"4","OracleText":"When Staunch Defenders comes into play, gain 4 life.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","FlavorText":"\"Hold your position! Leave doubt for the dying!\" —Tahngarth of the Weatherlight","m":{"artist":"Mark Poole","type":"Creature — Human Soldier","mana":"{3}{W}{W}","pt":"3/4"}},"163943":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"T: Add G to your mana pool.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Douglas Shuler","type":"Basic Land — Forest"}},"173495":{"SubType":"Sorcery","OracleText":"Target player sacrifices a creature\nFlashback 5BB (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"The pits have their own form of mercy.","m":{"artist":"Ben Thompson","type":"Sorcery","mana":"{1}{B}"}},"173815":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"U\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Alan Pollack","type":"Basic Land — Island"}},"173831":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"B\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Arnie Swekel","type":"Basic Land — Swamp"}},"174087":{"OracleText":"Semifinalist\n\nThe Top 8 is familiar territory for professional Magic player Dave Humpherys. With over $130,000 in career winnings and a Pro Tour championship on his resume, \"The Hump\" advanced to the Worlds semifinals for the second year in a row where he lost to eventual champion Daniel Zink. The blue-green madness deck he played has been a Standard mainstay for more than a year. It revolves around Torment madness cards like Basking Rootwalla and Circular Logic, together with discard-enablers like Aquamoeba and Wild Mongrel. Humpherys, who recently earned his Ph.D. from MIT, credits this version of the deck to Norway's Sigurd Eskeland.","m":{"type":"Card"}},"174103":{"SubType":"Sorcery","OracleText":"Search target player's library for up to three cards with flashback and put them into that player's graveyard. Then the player shuffles his or her library.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"\"The best foresight is hindsight.\" —Empress Llawan","m":{"artist":"John Avon","type":"Sorcery","mana":"{1}{U}"}},"173911":{"SubType":"Instant","OracleText":"Counter target spell unless its controller pays 1 for each card in your graveyard.\nMadness U (You may play this card for its madness cost at the time you discard it from your hand.)\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","m":{"artist":"Anthony S. Waters","type":"Instant","mana":"{2}{U}"}},"174071":{"SubType":"Instant","OracleText":"Destroy target artifact or enchantment.\nFlashback 4WW (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","m":{"artist":"Carl Critchlow","type":"Instant","mana":"{3}{W}"}},"158519":{"SubType":"Sorcery","OracleText":"Each player sacrifices enough lands to equalize the number of lands all players control. The player who controls the fewest lands cannot sacrifice any in this way. All players then equalize cards in hand and then creatures in play in the same way.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Mark Poole","type":"Sorcery","mana":"{1}{W}"}},"158567":{"SubType":"Artifact","OracleText":"When Serrated Arrows comes into play, put three arrowhead counters on it.\nDuring your upkeep, bury Serrated Arrows if there are no arrowhead counters on it.\nT: Remove an arrowhead counter from Serrated Arrows to put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","m":{"artist":"David A. Cherry","type":"Artifact","mana":"{4}"}},"158535":{"SubType":"Artifact","OracleText":"T: Add one mana to your mana pool. This mana may be of any type that any land opponent controls can produce. Play this ability as an interrupt.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"\"What do you have that I cannot obtain?\" —Mairsil, called the Pretender","m":{"artist":"Quinton Hoover","type":"Artifact","mana":"{2}"}},"158631":{"SubType":"Instant","OracleText":"Counter target blue spell or destroy target blue permanent.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","m":{"artist":"Richard Thomas","type":"Instant","mana":"{R}"}},"158615":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"T: Add 1 to your mana pool.\nT: Add R to your mana pool. Karplusan Forest deals 1 damage to you.\nT: Add G to your mana pool. Karplusan Forest deals 1 damage to you.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Nicola Leonard","type":"Land"}},"174327":{"SubType":"Creature — Dragon Spirit","OracleText":"Flying\n3WW: Return Eternal Dragon from your graveyard to your hand. Play this ability only during your upkeep.\nPlainscycling 2 (2, Discard this card from your hand: Search your library for a plains card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Justin Sweet","type":"Creature — Dragon Spirit","mana":"{5}{W}{W}","pt":"5/5"}},"174343":{"SubType":"Artifact","OracleText":"T: Target player removes a card in his or her graveyard from the game.\n1, Sacrifice Scrabbling Claws: Remove target card in a graveyard from the game. Draw a card.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","m":{"artist":"Thomas M. Baxa","type":"Artifact","mana":"{1}"}},"163895":{"OracleText":"(World Champion)\n\n\"World Champion\" was the one honor Jon Finkel had yet to claim. His dominating performance at this year's World Championships earned him that title at last. Finkel played an explosive deck that is named after the most important card, Tinker. Fellow Team Antartica member Dan O'Mahoney-Schwartz desined this monoblue deck. The deck used artifacts such as Grim Monolith, Metalworker, and Voltaic Key to quickly generate huge amounts of mana, and then used that mana to put large creatures into play.","m":{"type":"Card"}},"163927":{"SubType":"Artifact","OracleText":"1, T: Untap target artifact.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"The key did not work on a single lock, yet it opened many doors.","m":{"artist":"Henry G. Higginbotham","type":"Artifact","mana":"{1}"}},"162439":{"SubType":"Sorcery","OracleText":"Bury target artifact or land.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"\"Were they to reduce us to ash, we would clog their throats and sting their eyes in payment.\" —Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain","m":{"artist":"Richard Kane Ferguson","type":"Sorcery","mana":"{1}{R}{R}"}},"164551":{"SubType":"Sorcery","OracleText":"Destroy target land.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"John Matson","type":"Sorcery","mana":"{2}{R}"}},"164535":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"G\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Quinton Hoover","type":"Basic Land — Forest"}},"174359":{"m":{"type":"Card"}},"174375":{"SubType":"Instant","OracleText":"Target player sacrifices an attacking creature.\nStorm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.)\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Daren Bader","type":"Instant","mana":"{1}{W}{W}"}},"161079":{"SubType":"Summon Knight","P":"2","T":"2","OracleText":"Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking is assigned to block this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)\nFallen Askari cannot block.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"In troubled times, there are few greater sorrows than a wayward savior.","m":{"artist":"Adrian Smith","type":"Creature — Human Knight","mana":"{1}{B}","pt":"2/2"}},"164935":{"SubType":"Creature — Horror","P":"5","T":"5","OracleText":"Trample\nWhenever Phyrexian Negator is dealt damage, sacrifice a permanent for each 1 damage dealt to it.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"They exist to cease.","m":{"artist":"John Zeleznik","type":"Creature — Phyrexian Horror","mana":"{2}{B}","pt":"5/5"}},"162295":{"SubType":"Summon Atog","P":"1","T":"2","OracleText":"Remove the top creature card in your graveyard from the game: +2/+2 until end of turn.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"The necratog can always dig up a meal.","m":{"artist":"Bryan Talbot","type":"Creature — Atog","mana":"{1}{B}{B}","pt":"1/2"}},"164951":{"SubType":"Sorcery","OracleText":"Until end of turn, you may play cards in your graveyard as though they were in your hand. Cards put into your graveyard this turn are removed from the game instead.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Ron Spencer","type":"Sorcery","mana":"{2}{B}"}},"162391":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.\nT, Sacrifice Wasteland: Destroy target nonbasic land.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"\"The land promises nothing and keeps its promise.\" —Oracle en-Vec","m":{"artist":"Una Fricker","type":"Land"}},"165095":{"SubType":"Creature — Beast","P":"6","T":"6","OracleText":"Whenever Spiritmonger deals damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Spiritmonger.\nB: Regenerate Spiritmonger.\nG: Spiritmonger becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Glen Angus","type":"Creature — Beast","mana":"{3}{B}{G}","pt":"6/6"}},"165079":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"G\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Alan Pollack","type":"Basic Land — Forest"}},"164407":{"OracleText":"(Champion)\n\nKnown as the \"King of the Grand Prix\", Kai Budde earned an unprecedented three Grand Prix titles in 1999. Though he went only 4-2 during the Swiss portion of the World Championships, he cruised through the Final 8 to become the 1999 World Champion. The 19-year-old Koln, Germany native played a red-artifact deck that contained more than 30 artifacts. He used those artifacts to quickly generate huge amounts of mana, with which he could play a big creature like Masticore or Covetous Dragon. He would then finish his opponent with a well-timed Wildfire.","m":{"type":"Card"}},"164423":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"R\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Mark Poole","type":"Basic Land — Mountain"}},"158679":{"SubType":"Artifact","OracleText":"When Serrated Arrows comes into play, put three arrowhead counters on it.\nDuring your upkeep, bury Serrated Arrows if there are no arrowhead counters on it.\nT: Remove an arrowhead counter from Serrated Arrows to put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","m":{"artist":"David A. Cherry","type":"Artifact","mana":"{4}"}},"158647":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.\nT: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","m":{"artist":"Mark Tedin","type":"Land"}},"174391":{"SubType":"Sorcery","OracleText":"Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","FlavorText":"\"When the air burns, only death breathes deep.\" —Bogardan mage","m":{"artist":"John Avon","type":"Sorcery","mana":"{1}{R}"}},"159175":{"SubType":"Artifact","OracleText":"When Serrated Arrows comes into play, put three arrowhead counters on it.\nDuring your upkeep, bury Serrated Arrows if there are no arrowhead counters on it.\nT: Remove an arrowhead counter from Serrated Arrows to put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","m":{"artist":"David A. Cherry","type":"Artifact","mana":"{4}"}},"159159":{"SubType":"Artifact","OracleText":"1, T: Tap target artifact, creature or land.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"\"The scavengers who first found it called it the 'Bone Crank.' Not a bad name, I'd say.\" —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist","m":{"artist":"Amy Weber","type":"Artifact","mana":"{4}"}},"159191":{"SubType":"Sorcery","OracleText":"Each player sacrifices enough lands to equalize the number of lands all players control. The player who controls the fewest lands cannot sacrifice any in this way. All players then equalize cards in hand and then creatures in play in the same way.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Mark Poole","type":"Sorcery","mana":"{1}{W}"}},"159207":{"SubType":"Interrupt","OracleText":"Counter target spell if it is red or destroy target permanent if it is red.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","FlavorText":"\"Heed the lessons of our time: the forms of water may move the land itself and hold captive the fires within.\" —Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran Royal Mage","m":{"artist":"Kaja Foglio","type":"Instant","mana":"{U}"}},"159239":{"SubType":"Enchant Artifact","OracleText":"Gain control of target artifact.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","m":{"artist":"Amy Weber","type":"Enchantment — Aura","mana":"{2}{U}{U}"}},"164983":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"G\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Quinton Hoover","type":"Basic Land — Forest"}},"164967":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"R\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Mark Poole","type":"Basic Land — Mountain"}},"164519":{"SubType":"Summon Avatar","P":"*","T":"*","OracleText":"Serra Avatar has power and toughness equal to your life total.\nWhen Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard, shuffle Serra Avatar into owner's library.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Dermot Power","type":"Creature — Avatar","mana":"{4}{W}{W}{W}","pt":"*/*"}},"164503":{"SubType":"Enchantment","OracleText":"Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from play, that creature's controller may draw a card.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"Life is eternal. A lifetime is ephemeral.","m":{"artist":"Rebecca Guay","type":"Enchantment","mana":"{2}{G}"}},"174135":{"SubType":"Sorcery","OracleText":"Search your library for up to three creature cards and put them into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Greg Staples","type":"Sorcery","flavor":"The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.","mana":"{2}{B}"}},"174167":{"SubType":"Basic Land — Swamp","OracleText":"B\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"John Avon","type":"Basic Land — Swamp"}},"174151":{"SubType":"Basic Land — Mountain","OracleText":"R\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Rob Alexander","type":"Basic Land — Mountain"}},"162759":{"SubType":"Summon Snake","P":"1","T":"3","OracleText":"0: Draw a card. Ophidian deals no combat damage this turn. Use this ability only if Ophidian is attacking and unblocked and only once each turn.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Cliff Nielsen","type":"Creature — Snake","mana":"{2}{U}","pt":"1/3"}},"159255":{"SubType":"Instant","OracleText":"Destroy target artifact. Gain life equal to the artifact's casting cost.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","FlavorText":"D'Haren stared at the twisted lump of metal that had been a prized artifact. The fight was getting ugly.","m":{"artist":"Jeff A. Menges","type":"Instant","mana":"{1}{W}"}},"159271":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.\n1: Mishra's Factory becomes an Assembly Worker, a 2/2 artifact creature, until end of turn. Assembly Worker still counts as a land but cannot be tapped for mana the turn it comes into play.\nT: Target Assembly Worker gets +1/+1 until end of turn.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Kaja Foglio & Phil Foglio","type":"Land"}},"164631":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.\nT, Sacrifice Quicksand: Target attacking creature without flying gets -1/-2 until end of turn.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Roger Raupp","type":"Land"}},"173863":{"OracleText":"(Sixteenth Place)\n\nA native of Toulouse, Franch, Raphael Levy posted an impressive 5-1 record during the Standard portion of this year's Worlds playing a blue-green deck he named \"Le Wonder Goose.\" This deck used lots of small creatures — like Nimble Mongoose and Werebear — that get bigger at threshold. The deck used blue not for countermagic, but for cards like Careful Study and Mental Note, which help the deck reach threshold more quickly, and for Wonder in the graveyard, which allows the deck's pumped-up threshold creatures to fly.","m":{"type":"Card"}},"173847":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"G\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"D. J. Cleland-Hura","type":"Basic Land — Forest"}},"164455":{"SubType":"Summon Ape","P":"2","T":"2","OracleText":"When Uktabi Orangutan comes into play, destroy target artifact.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"\"Is it true that the apes wear furs of gold when they marry?\" —Rana, Suq'Ata market fool","m":{"artist":"Una Fricker","type":"Creature — Ape","mana":"{2}{G}","pt":"2/2"}},"164439":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"T: Add G to your mana pool.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"David O'Connor","type":"Basic Land — Forest"}},"173879":{"SubType":"Creature — Kavu","P":"4","T":"2","OracleText":"When Flametongue Kavu comes into play, it deals 4 damage to target creature.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"\"For dim-witted, thick-skulled genetic mutants, they have pretty good aim.\" —Sisay","m":{"artist":"Pete Venters","type":"Creature — Kavu","mana":"{3}{R}","pt":"4/2"}},"173895":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.\nT: Add R or G to your mana pool. Karplusan Forest deals 1 damage to you.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Scott Bailey","type":"Land"}},"160823":{"SubType":"Interrupt","OracleText":"Counter target spell. X is the casting cost of the target spell.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Brian Snõddy","type":"Instant","mana":"{X}{U}"}},"160807":{"SubType":"Land","OracleText":"T: Add U to your mana pool.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Mark Poole","type":"Basic Land — Island"}},"164263":{"SubType":"Sorcery","OracleText":"Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to play. (Local enchantments with no permanent to enchant remain in your graveyard.)\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"Treasures, trinkets, trash—the relics of the past are brought forth again.","m":{"artist":"Jim Nelson","type":"Sorcery","mana":"{3}{W}"}},"164247":{"SubType":"Instant","OracleText":"Counter target spell.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Hannibal King","type":"Instant","mana":"{U}{U}"}},"164311":{"SubType":"Sorcery","OracleText":"Choose a color. Look at target player's hand and choose a card of that color from it. That player discards that card.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.\n”SB” indicates this is a sideboard card.","FlavorText":"\"I'll wring out your tiny mind like a sponge.\" —Urborg witch","m":{"artist":"Ron Spears","type":"Sorcery","mana":"{1}{B}"}},"164327":{"SubType":"Creature — Horror","P":"2","T":"2","OracleText":"At the beginning of your upkeep, Plague Spitter deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.\nWhen Plague Spitter is put into a graveyard from play, Plague Spitter deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","m":{"artist":"Chippy","type":"Creature — Phyrexian Horror","mana":"{2}{B}","pt":"2/2"}},"174199":{"m":{"type":"Card"}},"174183":{"SubType":"Creature — Goblin","P":"2","T":"2","OracleText":"Goblin spells you play cost 1 less to play.\nGoblins you control have haste.\n\nNot a Tournament Legal card.","FlavorText":"They poured from the Skirk Ridge like lava, burning and devouring everything in their path.","m":{"artist":"Greg Hildebrandt & Tim Hildebrandt","type":"Creature — Goblin Warrior","mana":"{1}{R}{R}","pt":"2/2"}},"159223":{"OracleText":"(Champion)\nFinals — defeated Lestree (2-1)\nSemifinals — defeated Poulter (3-2)\nQuarterfinals — defeated Tam (2-0)\n\nLoconto, a 26-year-old social worker from Grafton, Massachusetts, played a blue-white Millstone deck that generally defeated his opponents by running them out of cards. One innovative concept was his addition of Hallowed Ground, which he used to protect himself against Armageddon, to activate his Land Tax, and to save his Mishra's Factories from destruction."},"158279":{"OracleText":"\"McCabe's fast red-blue deck puts the opponent on the defensive. A large number of inexpensive, efficient creatures overwhelm the opposition.\"\n\nNOTE: The cards in this deck are gold-bordered with an alternate card backing and are printed with the player's signature. They are NOT tournament legal."},"158311":{"OracleText":"\"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 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.\"\n\nNOTE: The cards in this deck are gold-bordered with an alternate card backing and are printed with the player's signature. They are NOT tournament legal."}}