BG Rock stems from an old Standard deck from Urza block created by Sol Malka, “The Rock”. Malka would use mana dorks to power out Phyrexian Plaguelord and/or Deranged Hermitwhile disrupting opponents with hand and permanent disruption. The arrival of Pernicious Deed and Spiritmonger in Apocalypse led to BG Rock having success in Ice Age/Invasion Extended when Michael Pustilnik took 1st place at Grand Prix Las Vagas 2001. Rock decks continued to evolve keeping the aspects that were strongest and replacing cards with the most efficient options available with every new release. There are numerous BGx decks that have been spawned from the original BG Rock concept and shell since, but the last BG Rock deck I feel it important to mention is Ernie Marchesanos’ BG Rock deck that won Grand Prix Seattle 2005.

MAIN DECK

4 Birds of Paradise
3 Eternal Witness
3 Ravenous Baloth
3 Sakura-Tribe Elder
2 Troll Ascetic
4 Wall of Blossoms
1 Withered Wretch
Creatures [20]

4 Cabal Therapy
1 Chainer's Edict
1 Cranial Extraction
4 Pernicious Deed
1 Recurring Nightmare
3 Smother
3 Vampiric Tutor
Spells [17]

1 Dust Bowl
8 Forest
4 Llanowar Wastes
6 Swamp
3 Treetop Village
1 Volrath's Stronghold
Lands [23]

SIDEBOARD

2 Chainer's Edict
2 Coffin Purge
3 Duress
4 Engineered Plague
3 Naturalize
1 Rude Awakening
Sideboard [15]

Deck Total [60]

Although the basis of Sols’ original idea, to disrupt your opponent while creating card advantage and beating down your opponent with efficient creatures, is still present in the current form of BG Rock, the cards utilized in current BG Rock is very different (Treetop Village excluded, of course).