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Lands:
1 Faerie Conclave
3 Flood Plain
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Savannah
3 Treetop Village
4 Tropical Island
4 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
Creatures:
1 Morphling
1 Shard Phoenix
1 Spike Feeder
Other Spells:
1 Abundance
1 Aura of Silence
4 Brainstorm
4 Counterspell
1 Disrupt
4 Enlightened Tutor
1 Forbid
4 Force of Will
2 Gaea's Blessing
3 Impulse
1 Ivory Mask
1 Null Rod
2 Oath of Druids
1 Powder Keg
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Sylvan Library
1 Trade Routes
Sideboard
1 Aura of Silence
1 Circle of Protection: Red
1 Compost
1 Crater Hellion
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Light of Day
2 Mana Short
2 Oath of Druids
1 Peacekeeper
1 Phyrexian Furnace
1 Powder Keg
1 Sacred Ground
1 Swords to Plowshares |
    Maher
Oath.
Brief commentary by Brian Kibler on
www.magicthegathering.com (quoted):
Many players have met with high level
tournament success with this sort of strategy. One notable example is
Bob Maher at Pro Tour-Chicago with his Enlightened Tutor-based Oath of
Druids deck. Bob's championship deck contained single copies of
extremely powerful enchantments and artifacts in both his main deck and
sideboard, and four copies of Enlightened Tutor allowed him easy access
to whichever was most effective against his opponent's strategy at the
time. Oath itself shut down nearly all creature-based strategies, while
Sylvan Library punished slower control decks, Ivory Mask nullified the
discard and direct damage effects of Necropotence decks, and more. Bob's
sideboard contained even more of these silver bullets, like CoP: Red and
Arcane Laboratory, ensuring that he had something potent to search for
against every major archetype that could, in many cases, singlehandedly
win the game. Bob's success with silver bullets at PT-Chicago (and,
subsequently, GP-Seattle) was certainly no fluke. The extremes to which
modern decks are tuned to do one job and to do it well very often leaves
them open to cards that prey on their vulnerabilities.
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