{"id":126,"date":"2006-04-02T20:42:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T00:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/?p=126"},"modified":"2018-11-07T21:08:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T02:08:49","slug":"more-about-world-cup-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/2006\/04\/02\/more-about-world-cup-1\/","title":{"rendered":"more about &#8220;World Cup 1&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winner: 2005 Ghazi-Glare<br \/>\n2nd place: 2003 Reanimator<br \/>\ntied for 3rd: 2002 Psychatog &amp; 1999 Red Sligh<\/p>\n<p>Decks that were invited (decks from 1996-2005):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mtg.gamepedia.com\/Pro_Tour_Collector_Set\">1996 Pro Tour NY collector set<\/a> decks. Each deck was required to contain at least five cards from each of the legal expansions. I chose the winning deck (Millstone), a deck that had Necropotence in it (but is not a normal Necropotence deck) and a deck with Winter Orb (3 decks).<\/p>\n<p>2001 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mtg.gamepedia.com\/Deckmasters_2001\">Deckmasters<\/a> &#8211; Jon Finkel&#8221; which is not even a real Standard deck &#8211; it was from a special box set based on a special event, a challenge between Jon Finkel and Richard Garfield.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of gold-border World Championship decks. I didn&#8217;t own any of the 1997 decks at this time, and didn&#8217;t have a complete set (4 decks) for some of the other years. I used what I had: 4 decks from 1998, 3 decks from 1999, 4 decks from 2000, 4 decks from 2001, 2 decks from 2002, 4 decks from 2003, 3 decks from 2004 (not including Affinity!).<\/p>\n<p>4 Proxy decks I made based on decks from the World Championship 2005. (The gold-border decks were discontinued after 2004.)<\/p>\n<p>Conclusions:<\/p>\n<p>I was just messing around at the time and was totally unaware of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeline_of_Magic:_the_Gathering_Standard_(Type_II)\">history of Standard<\/a>. I hadn&#8217;t even heard of Academy or Memory Jar, and didn&#8217;t know what a real Necro deck looked like. I knew about the Affinity deck that had been banned, but apparently it didn&#8217;t occur to me to proxy it, even though I used proxy decks for 2005. So, yeah, not much of a methodology here, but&#8230; this is how it all started!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner: 2005 Ghazi-Glare 2nd place: 2003 Reanimator tied for 3rd: 2002 Psychatog &amp; 1999 Red Sligh Decks that were invited (decks from 1996-2005): 1996 Pro Tour NY collector set decks. Each deck was required to contain at least five cards from each of the legal expansions. I chose the winning deck (Millstone), a deck that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}