Lands:
4 City of Brass
4 City of Traitors
4 Crystal Vein
4 Rootwater Depths
4 Underground River
Creatures:
None
Other Spells:
1 Blaze
4 Dark Ritual
4 Delusions of Mediocrity
4 Grim Monolith
4 Mox Diamond
1 Rescind
3 Scroll Rack
3 Show and Tell
3 Turnabout
4 Vampiric Tutor
4 Voltaic Key
4 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Yawgmoth's Will
Sideboard:
1 Adarkar Wastes
1 Boil
1 Chill
3 Defense Grid
2 Disenchant
2 Dread of Night
1 Energy Field
1 Light of Day
1 Lobotomy
1 Masticore
1 Perish |
    Phantom
Menace.
Description of deck by
Matt "Hydramon" Ladwig
(quoted):
Bargain and Replenish -- ...I'm doing the
Replenish and Yawgmoth's Bargain decks together as the two cards started
out in the same combo deck, and their histories have been pretty much
mirrored. The first major tournament that Replenish and Yawgmoth's
Bargain were legal in was the 1998 U.S. Nationals. There were three
different deck builds played there that used Yawgmoth's Bargain. One
[NOT THIS DECK] was played by Your Move Games team member David
Humphrerys to a top eight finish. His deck was built around the
replenish/Yawgmoth's Bargain/Seismic Assault combo, and the entire deck
was built around getting the combo off as soon as possible.
The second Yawgmoth's Bargain [NOT THIS DECK] deck was
played to a top eight finish by Charles Kornblith. His deck was also
built arounf the Bargain/Replenish/Assault combo, but was much more
controlling, running Forbids and utility enchantments to be able to play
a long game if needed.
The third deck [THIS DECK] didn't run Replenish, but
was built around Yawgmoth's Bargain and Turnabout. Named the Phantom
Menace by its designer Zvi Mowshowitz, Zvi played it to a top four
finish at the Nationals.
The Phantom Menace [THIS DECK] was a much harder deck
to play well, but never the less remained the more played of the decks
until the Tempest Block was rotated out of Type Two play. When that
happened, Replenish and Bargain decks became two seperate, and equally
viable decktypes. There were two versions of the Bargain deck that was
widely played. The first, and more popular of the two was Sabre Bargain,
which was built around using Academy Rector, Voltaic Key, and Grim
Monolith to get out a quick Yawgmoth's Bargain, and then discard cards
to Skirge Familiar to generate the mana nessessary to cast Soul Feast
four times. It would then cast Yawgmoth's Will, and recast the Soul
Feasts out of its graveyard, killing its opponent. Jon Finkel played the
deck at the Magic Invitational 1999-2000. |
