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MaskNought
By Zulo

‘Masknought’ is a Vintage deck which runs the components Illusionary Mask and Phyrexian Dreadnought . The Mask’s effect allows you to bypass the come into play drawback of Phyrexian Dreadnought to get a potentially devastating 12/12 trampler into play on the first couple of turns. This deck has many different variants. They are typically Mono-black or Black and Blue to ensure that the combo goes off with little or no problems, using disruption like Duress , Cabal Therapy , Hymn to Tourach and Force of Will to stop opposing Forces, Hymns and Duresses, and also to try and stop Welders.
Goblin Welder is one of the biggest problems this deck faces. They can weld out your Dreadnought for a Mox or Lotus and weld it back in, removing Masks and Moxes and Negators. Artifact destruction is rampant at the moment. In light of this, some versions run Lord of Tresserhorn in the SB or main deck.
The deck can also take a Sui-Black role, running Hypnotic Specter and Phyrexian Negators . Vengeur Mask runs FEB elements like Volrath`s Shapeshifter and silver bullets like Phage the Untouchable .


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Rising Waters
by inhuman

Rising Waters is a soft-lock deck based on denying your opponents mana from land sources. In this mono-blue deck, Rising Waters is supported by a huge number of countering and bounce spells. By repeatedly kicking back your opponent's creatures with cheap, efficient counter/bounce, you can solidify your board position and slowly beat your opponent to death.

Here is a build:
Land - 22
18x Island
4x Rishadan Port

Creatures - 7
4x Troublesome Spirit
3x Spiketail Hatchling

Spells - 24
4x Gush
3x Rising Waters
3x Daze
3x Foil
3x Thwart
3x Seal of Removal
3x Brainstorm
2x Counterspell

Artifacts - 7
4x Sky Diamond
3x Eye of Ramos


Other cards which may be played in Rising Waters:
Waterfront Bouncer
Tradewind Rider
Ribbon Snake
Chimeric Idol
Slow Motion
Mox Sapphire
Ancestral Recall

Beasts
By Canned Meat

Basic Info: Beasts is a tribal deck that uses powerful beasts to crush the opponent. It can usually be either G/R or G depending on your preference. Beasts is not viable outside of tribal or casual.

The Decklist: "Mono Green Beasts" Show

Matchups, Other Notes, ect.:Setting Aether Vial at four or three is usually going to be the best choice. Roffellos is in there to allow the steep mana curve to be a success. Remember, Fangren and Vial don't target Blastoderm and he is always a great saccing target for the baloth.

Matchups against aggro are cake. Control is much more difficult a matchup, however.

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Legion Land Loss
by Pathian

Legion Land Loss is a mono green land destruction deck that first
surfaced in Extended in 1998. It was initially developed by a team of
french players, most notably Raphael Levy. The name of the deck comes
from the name of the french team, The Legion. Legion Land Loss thrives
on redundancy, with 8 mana elves supplying the speed that many
straight LD decks lack along with Green's lesser known but powerful LD
spells in Winter's Grasp, Thermokarst, and Creeping Mold. One of the
eight elves in the deck cast on the first turn will allow you to cast
one of the eight 3 mana LD spells in the deck on your second turn,
effectively a Sinkhole.

The decklist supplied below is a lockdown style version of LLL, making
use of Smokestack to force the opponent into having few or no
permanents either turn. Smokestack has great synergy with Yavimaya
Elder which leads to great card advantage when you use it. Wall of
Roots provides mana acceleration as well as stopping early bleeding
from agro decks. The cheap and synergystic Argothian Wurm and
potentially scary powerful Terravore serve as finishers

LLL-lockdown
Creatures:
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Yavimaya Elder
2 Argothian Wurm
2 Terravore
4 Wall of Roots

Other Spells:
4 Thermokarst
4 Winter[s Grasp
4 Creeping Mold
4 Smokestack

Lands:
4 Rishadan Port
2 Dust Bowl
18 Forest

A more agressive ponza-like version of LLL is also possible (which is
the more common version), using LD only as disruption to keep the
opponent behind while you gain superior board position for creatures.
This style of LLL replaces the more controlling elements of the
lockdown version with a multitude of efficient attackers. Masticore
also provides the green deck with an agressive attacker and some much
needed creature destruction. Call of the Herd and Treetop Village are
efficient attackers as well. A first turn Hidden Gibbons can be
potentially devastating against a Control deck. Plow Under is another
potent option, although it is not included on either decklist
presented here

LLL-agro
Creatures:
4 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Masticore
4 Wall of Roots
3 Yavimaya Elder

Other Spells:
3 Call of the Herd
3 Creeping Mold
3 Hidden Gibbons
4 Thermokarst
4 Winter[s Grasp

Lands:
3 Dust Bowl
11 Forest
4 Rishadan Port
2 Treetop Village
4 Wasteland

ProsBloom
By AjaxUD

ProsBloom was one of the first combo decks to have a significant impact in its T2 environment. Created by the infamous Mike Long, ProsBloom was capable of sitting back and doing nothing, before exploding in one turn and draining the opponent of all their life. The deck relies on mana-generating cards such as Squandered Resources and Cadaverous Bloom (along with the card-drawing Prosperity ) to crank out a ridiculous amount of black mana for a huge Drain Life .

Here is the decklist that Long brought to Pro Tour Paris in 1997:


Land:
3 Bad River
4 Undiscovered Paradise
7 Forest
5 Island
6 Swamp

Other Spells:
4 Impulse
2 Memory Lapse
1 Power Sink
4 Prosperity
1 Three Wishes
1 Drain Life
4 Infernal Contract
4 Vampiric Tutor
1 Elven Cache
1 Emerald Charm
4 Natural Balance
4 Cadaverous Bloom
4 Squandered Resources



Sideboard:
3 City of Solitude
4 Elephant Grass
1 Elven Cache
3 Emerald Charm
1 Memory Lapse
1 Power Sink
2 Wall of Roots