{"id":143,"date":"2011-01-02T23:19:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T04:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/?p=143"},"modified":"2018-11-08T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:27:57","slug":"more-about-world-cup-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/2011\/01\/02\/more-about-world-cup-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"more about &#8220;World Cup 2&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winner: 2004 Krark-Clan Incubator (Myr Incubator) Combo<br \/>\n2nd place: 2008 Kithkin<br \/>\ntied for 3rd: 2008 Demigod Red, 2002 Psychatog &amp; 2006 Solar Flare<\/p>\n<p><strong>64 decks single elimination (decks from 1994-2010):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A World Championship winning deck from each year<br \/>\n1994 World Championship deck (before Standard even existed)<br \/>\nGold-border World Championship decks (1997-2004).<br \/>\nOther decks from World Championships after 2004, either top 8 decks or undefeated in standard portion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Still unaware of\u00a0Academy, Memory Jar, and Necro, because they weren&#8217;t part of World Championship top 8s, but this is the beginning of my internet research into old decklists.<\/p>\n<p>The combo deck that never faced a counterspell wins. Just fast enough to beat a bunch of aggro decks, and one other combo deck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner: 2004 Krark-Clan Incubator (Myr Incubator) Combo 2nd place: 2008 Kithkin tied for 3rd: 2008 Demigod Red, 2002 Psychatog &amp; 2006 Solar Flare 64 decks single elimination (decks from 1994-2010): A World Championship winning deck from each year 1994 World Championship deck (before Standard even existed) Gold-border World Championship decks (1997-2004). Other decks from World [&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-143","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\/143","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=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}