Justin Civitillo's McCabe's Mastery
 
Type: Deck Idea
Format (invalid) vinVintage
Approx. Value:
$328.00

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Avg. CMC 2.93
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Main Deck - 60 cards, 19 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (7)
4 Hypnotic Specter
$0.85 Creature - Specter
1 Ihsan's Shade
$0.30 Legendary Creature - Shade Knight
2 Sengir Vampire
$0.18 Creature - Vampire
Instant (9)
3 Contagion
$1.36 Instant
4 Dark Ritual
$2.80 Instant
2 Demonic Consultation
$12.67 Instant
Sorcery (10)
4 Drain Life
$0.25 Sorcery
1 Hymn to Tourach
$0.51 Sorcery
2 Mind Warp
$0.12 Sorcery
3 Stupor
$0.36 Sorcery
Artifact (7)
1 Ivory Tower
$1.65 Artifact
4 Nevinyrral's Disk
$0.28 Artifact
1 Serrated Arrows
$0.34 Artifact
1 Zuran Orb
$6.16 Artifact
Enchantment (4)
4 Necropotence
$10.39 Enchantment
Land (23)
2 Lake of the Dead
$78.22 Land
2 Mishra's Factory
$0.13 Land
1 Strip Mine
$16.36 Land
18 Swamp
$1.71 Basic Land - Swamp
Sideboard - 15 cards, 8 distinct
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Instant (4)
1 Contagion
$1.36 Instant
3 Stench of Decay
$0.10 Instant
Sorcery (2)
1 Soul Burn
$0.14 Sorcery
1 Stupor
$0.36 Sorcery
Artifact (2)
1 Lodestone Bauble
$3.25 Artifact
1 Serrated Arrows
$0.34 Artifact
Enchantment (7)
4 Dystopia
$3.69 Enchantment
3 Infernal Darkness
$1.77 Enchantment

Notes
 
Source: Inquest #22 (Feb 1997), p.71; author: Beth Moursund

Won Pro Tour V Masters Championship

"Necropotence, weenie and Winter Orb decks dominated the top ranks of the masters division.  The ultimate winner, however, 18-year-old Paul McCabe of Toronto, didn't wield a standard Necrodeck.

McCabe's deck has only seven creatures - nine if you count Mishra's Factories.  It usually wins with one big creature of a large Drain Life, powered by Lake of the Dead.

'I made it about three months ago, right after just being continually beaten by Necro,' McCabe says.  'I wanted to see if I could make a Necrodeck work that centred around what I thought were dumb cards.  I made the deck basically to try to be funny - to, in a way, prove that Necro was broken.  And I just put in Mind Warps, Lakes of the Dead, which I thought were terrible at the time, everything...

I went to tournament after tournament and I just kept winning.  When I didn't really have a lot of time to test for this tournament, I just sort of took a deck off the shelf, and it was this one.'"
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