4 Kami of the Crescent Moon
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Boomerang
4 Exhaustion
2 Evacuation
4 Eye of Nowhere
4 Remand
4 Howling Mine
4 Sudden Impact
4 Ebony Owl Netsuke
10 Island
2 Mountain
2 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
4 Steam Vents
4 Shivan Reef
Sideboard:
3 Mana Leak
2 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
4 Threads of Disloyalty
3 Pyroclasm
3 Blood Moon |
  Owling
Mine (PTH 2006).
Description of deck by Mike Flores @
www.wizards.com (quoted):
Beyond the generally accepted triangle points
of beatdown, combination, and control, PT Honolulu pulled a page out of
ancient history. At US Nationals 1996, in the middle of the Necro
Summer, a group of players brought a rogue Howling Mine deck to the show
and took 50% of the spots available on the US National Team. Turbo
Stasis was a metagame deck; its Howling Mines raced and defied the card
Necropotence and its namesake enchantment was notoriously difficult for
Necro to remove from play. Vulnerable to White decks that packed a lot
of Disenchants, Turbo Stasis was an ideal and unexpected choice to do
well in a single tournament.
Embracing that philosophy of old, Tiago Chan and Antoine Ruel came to
Honolulu with different looks at Owling Mine. A deck with literally no
chance against beatdown decks in the main, Owling Mine is equally as
strong against controlling decks. Howling Mine erases the advantages
generated by the popular Orzhov discard decks and makes dedicated card
drawing like the five mana Tidings look a bit silly. With the right
matchups, Owling Mine can be the most dominating deck in the format...
but meet up with a member of the Gruul clans and the same cannot be
said. Antoine and Tiago won a total of one game between them in their
matches against Craig and Heezy.
Despite joining the same Guild as URzatron, Owling Mine takes the
opposite look at the metagame. Rather than saying "I have a powerful
deck; as long as I survive the early game, I am going to outclass
whatever other players try to do," Owling Mine takes specific aim at the
projected environment. It expects certain decks to show up and continue
to do well, and relies on those metagame predictions in order to do
well. Of the various types of decks that you can adopt coming out of
this Pro Tour, Owling Mine's continued viability seems the least clear,
especially considering which decks ended up fighting for the title.
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