Lands:
2 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Brass
4 City of Traitors
8 Island
4 Plains
2 Underground River
Creatures:
None.
Other Spells:
1 Abundance
3 Attunement
1 Delusions of Mediocrity
4 Intuition
4 Frantic Search
3 Forbid
4 Mox Diamond
4 Mystical Tutor
1 Peace of Mind
4 Replenish
1 Sacred Ground
1 Seismic Assault
4 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
Sideboard:
1 Arcane Laboratory
4 Chill
2 Defense Grid
2 Erase
1 Light of Day
2 Mana Short
2 Propaganda
1 Wrath of God |
    Kornblith
Knight.
Description of deck by its author
(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 [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 [NOT 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 [NOT 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. |
