4 River Boa
4 Fresh Volunteers
4 Ramosian Sergeant
4 Voice of All
4 Chimeric Idol
4 Armadillo Cloak
4 Noble Panther
4 Wax/Wane
4 Parallax Wave
4 Brushland
6 Forest
8 Plains
4 Rishadan Port
1 Rith's Grove
1 Treva's Ruins
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Junk (G/W Toolbox).
Description of deck by Mike Flores @
www.wizards.com:
I intend to do a more thorough analysis of this philosophy at a
later date, as I find its evolution to be unusually interesting.
Briefly, the deck focuses on overall utility, generally attempting to
answer threats (and various types of permanents, in particular) with a
variety of versatile cards. The Toolbox moniker, proper, is borrowed
from Brian Kowal's Survival/Opposition deck (a 2000 era Extended deck
that falls in the middle of Toolbox evolution). Toolbox's is a rich
tradition that flows from Bertrand Lestree and Preston Poulter at 1996
Pro Tour-New York, through the dominance of g5c at Regionals 1997,
through the Kastle and Survival / Recur (and post-Survival / Recur)
decks of the following year, and back to the original G/W creature /
disruption decks of the archetype's roots.
Though at first glance the Toolbox procession seems, at times,
disjointed, we must always consider the efficiency of the base utility
cards (and white spot removal in particular) available during any given
environment. There are times when Toolbox touches the Prison, Tinker,
and especially Weissman decks; certainly it has the Weissman "take all
comers" attitude towards the opposition; there are even times when the
Toolbox is "the best control deck" of an environment (such as the
Survival/Living Death decks of Regionals 1999). While both decks strive
for maximum efficiency, and by their very natures have to answer a
variety of opponents, the main differentiation between Weissman and
Toolbox are that the former strives for maximum defensive redundancy
whereas the Toolbox plays "both" sides of the game, simply expecting
more work from its cards. Because of this, Toolbox's spells often pull
double weight; "removal and win condition" and "card drawing and
something else" are the most common combinations.
Better than any other deck, Toolbox forces the opponent to interact with
its cards. It will not play goldfish to an opposing beatdown strategy,
and has the tools to defeat aggressive decks if given sufficient turns.
Decks that have no cards to interact with (decks focused on board
control, decks that can kill in a single turn, beatdown decks that can
evade and kill in a single turn) pose the greatest challenges for the
deck. Nevertheless, even control strategies sometimes fall prey to the
mana sanction often employed by this tradition.
Like many of the deck's historical
ancestors, this incarnation of the g-w creature deck plays answers to the
various classes of opposing permanents, and runs light life gain and a
multi-purpose creature base.
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