THE COMMANDERS: As has become the norm for precons, weve got two potential Commanders
2 extra mana to cast
Later that same year, in Champions of Kamigawa (2004), we had this little gem of complete unusability
While this concept of a serialized card isn't new for Magic, cards with very limited printing with each copy uniquely numbered, with arguably the most well-known offering being the 1 of 1 The One Ring from the Lord of the Rings set a few years ago
Table of Contents show The Deck Blightsteel Colossus | Illustration by Chris Rahn Commander (1) Planeswalker (1) Creatures (31) Academy Manufactor Blightsteel Colossus Meteor Golem Steel Hellkite Ancient Copper Dragon Axgard Cavalry Blast-Furnace Hellkite Dockside Extortionist Dwarven Bloodboiler Dwarven Miner Dwarven Recruiter Goldspan Dragon Leyline Tyrant Magus of the Wheel Plundering Barbarian Professional Face-Breaker Rapacious Dragon Storm-Kiln Artist Terror of Mount Velus Terror of the Peaks Utvara Hellkite Vault Robber Xorn Drakuseth, Maw of Flames Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge Ganax, Astral Hunter Inferno of the Star Mounts Lathliss, Dragon Queen Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer Torbran, Thane of Red Fell Instants (8) Abrade Big Score Chaos Warp Mogg Salvage Ricochet Trap Seething Song Tibalt's Trickery Unexpected Windfall Sorceries (11) Blasphemous Act Brass's Bounty Chain Reaction Dwarven Reinforcements Faithless Looting Gamble Jeska's Will Seize the Spoils Trash for Treasure Vandalblast Wheel of Misfortune Enchantment (1) Artifacts (12) Battlemage's Bracers Darksteel Forge Glittering Stockpile Goldvein Pick Lightning Greaves Maskwood Nexus Mycosynth Lattice Portal to Phyrexia Sol Ring Springleaf Drum Wayfarer's Bauble Hazoret's Monument Lands (35) Treasure Vault Mountain x28 Dwarven Mine Holdout Settlement Homeward Path Myriad Landscape Rogue's Passage Survivors' Encampment This deck is all about cheating out big artifacts and dragons, so I put an emphasis on cards that generate Treasure tokens
Contrast CMU Academy with Hovi's deck, which gave him his second PT win: Not only did Hovi not play Wasteland main (controversial to say the least in a tournament defined by Tolarian Academy) but his deck was bogged down with lots of Mind over Matters
