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Ten Decks You Might Not Have Playtested Against

Ben Bleiweiss and Aaron Forsythe

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Open tournamnets as large as this one tend to draw players from all sections of the Magic community. Hence, you tend to see things you might not at other high-level events. Here are a few of the crazier concoctions that graced the tables here in Milwaukee. Metagame be damned!

GP Milwaukee: Copland TC 1.514

Mike Foley

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Main Deck

60 cards

4 Brushland
4 Coastal Tower
3 Forest
4 Island
3 Skycloud Expanse
2 Treva's Ruins
4 Yavimaya Coast

24 lands

1 Mystic Enforcer

1 creature

4 Alter Reality
2 Ancestral Tribute
3 Circle of Protection: Green
2 Circle of Protection: Red
2 Compost
4 Counterspell
4 Howling Mine
2 Millstone
3 Nostalgic Dreams
4 Orim's Chant
1 Traumatize
4 Wrath of God

35 other spells

Sideboard

4 Aether Burst
2 Deflection
4 Disenchant
3 Gainsay
1 Rout
1 Wash Out

15 sideboard cards

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GP Milwaukee: Need Vore Speed

Russell Irwin

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Main Deck

60 cards

12 Forest
9 Mountain

21 lands

4 Goblin Gardener
4 Terravore
4 Werebear

12 creatures

3 Bend or Break
3 Creeping Mold
4 Harrow
2 Jalum Tome
4 Lava Blister
2 Moment's Peace
3 Need for Speed
2 Pillage
4 Stone Rain

27 other spells

Sideboard

1 Compost
4 Flame Burst
4 Insist
1 Jalum Tome
3 Price of Glory
2 Turf Wound

15 sideboard cards

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GP Milwaukee: Jump Around

Cory Beck

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Main Deck

86 cards

10 Forest
10 Mountain
10 Plains
10 Swamp

40 lands

2 Benalish Trapper
2 Capashen Unicorn
1 Doomsday Specter
1 Dream Thrush
1 Dromar, the Banisher
1 Emblazoned Golem
1 Empress Galina
1 Llanowar Elite
1 Magnigoth Treefolk
1 Metathran Transport
1 Necra Disciple
1 Painbringer
1 Phyrexian Slayer
1 Pianna, Nomad Captain
2 Quirion Elves
1 Stalking Assassin
3 Stratadon
1 Teroh's Faithful
1 Tidal Visionary
2 Urborg Elf

26 creatures

1 Annihilate
1 Armadillo Cloak
1 Aura Shards
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Do or Die
1 Early Harvest
1 Engineered Plague
2 Exotic Curse
1 Fact or Fiction
2 Harrow
1 Howl from Beyond
2 Opt
2 Ordered Migration
1 Planeswalker's Favor
1 Traveler's Cloak
1 Wild Growth

20 other spells

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GP Milwaukee: Martyr Attack

Ben Faga

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Main Deck

62 cards

1 Abandoned Outpost
9 Plains
10 Swamp

20 lands

1 Abyssal Horror
1 Aven Cloudchaser
1 Aven Flock
1 Beloved Chaplain
1 Carrion Wurm
1 Crossbow Infantry
1 Crypt Creeper
1 Dusk Imp
1 Faceless Butcher
1 Fledgling Imp
1 Gloomdrifter
1 Grotesque Hybrid
1 Heavy Ballista
1 Honorable Scout
1 Longbow Archer
1 Mystic Familiar
1 Nightscape Familiar
2 Razorfoot Griffin
1 Serra Advocate
2 Skyshroud Falcon
1 Slithery Stalker
1 Soul Scourge
1 Spineless Thug
1 Stronghold Assassin

26 creatures

1 Aegis of Honor
1 Caustic Tar
2 Diabolic Intent
2 Diabolic Tutor
1 Gerrard's Wisdom
1 Insidious Dreams
1 Mana Cylix
1 Meekstone
2 Mortal Combat
1 Planar Portal
1 Spellbook
1 Spirit Link
1 Wrath of God

16 other spells

Sideboard

1 Circle of Protection: Black
1 Circle of Protection: Blue
1 Circle of Protection: Green
1 Circle of Protection: Red
1 Circle of Protection: White
5 Plains
5 Swamp

15 sideboard cards

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GP Milwaukee: Radiohead

Chris Myers

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Main Deck

63 cards

10 Forest
7 Island
7 Mountain
5 Plains

29 lands

0 creatures

1 Compulsion
4 Counterspell
4 Harrow
4 Lightning Blast
4 Natural Emergence
4 Rampant Growth
2 Sacred Ground
4 Sterling Grove
3 Vivify
4 Wild Growth

34 other spells

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GP Milwaukee: Hold Off

Curtis Free

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Main Deck

66 cards

8 Plains
14 Swamp
4 Tainted Field

26 lands

4 Drudge Skeletons
4 Mystic Crusader
1 Voice of All

9 creatures

3 Aegis of Honor
3 Death Grasp
4 Diabolic Tutor
3 Life Burst
4 Shield of Duty and Reason
4 Skeletal Scrying
4 Soul Burn
3 Soul Link
3 Spirit Link

31 other spells

Sideboard

3 Duress
1 Haunting Echoes
4 Mesmeric Fiend
4 Plague Spitter
3 Ravenous Rats

15 sideboard cards

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GP Milwaukee: Black Eye

Alex Burke

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Main Deck

60 cards

14 Island
10 Swamp

24 lands

4 Fallen Angel
4 Gravedigger
4 Nightscape Familiar

12 creatures

4 Chainer's Edict
4 Chamber of Manipulation
4 Counterspell
4 Fact or Fiction
4 Recoil
4 Repulse

24 other spells

Sideboard

4 Aether Burst
2 Megrim
3 Persecute
2 Standstill
3 Undermine
1 Upheaval

15 sideboard cards

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GP Milwaukee: Black Death

Rodger Murray

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Main Deck

88 cards

1 Crosis's Catacombs
1 Darigaaz's Caldera
1 Dromar's Cavern
7 Forest
5 Island
5 Mountain
5 Plains
1 Rith's Grove
5 Swamp
1 Treva's Ruins

32 lands

1 Captain Sisay
1 Crosis, the Purger
1 Darigaaz, the Igniter
1 Draco
1 Dralnu's Pet
1 Dromar, the Banisher
1 Empress Galina
2 Ertai, the Corrupted
1 Gerrard Capashen
1 Hanna, Ship's Navigator
1 Metathran Aerostat
1 Quirion Dryad
4 Quirion Elves
2 Quirion Explorer
1 Reya Dawnbringer
1 Rith, the Awakener
1 Shivan Wurm
1 Treva, the Renewer
2 Tsabo Tavoc

25 creatures

2 Armadillo Cloak
1 Coalition Victory
1 Collective Restraint
1 Death Grasp
2 Dragon Arch
2 Exotic Curse
2 Fertile Ground
3 Gaea's Might
1 Holy Day
1 Index
1 Planar Portal
1 Pulse of Llanowar
2 Scouting Trek
2 Shackles
1 Spirit of Resistance
1 Stand or Fall
2 Strength of Unity
1 Traveler's Cloak
2 Tribal Flames
2 Wandering Stream

31 other spells

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GP Milwaukee: Merfolk Attack!

David Irwin

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Main Deck

60 cards

17 Island

17 lands

4 Arctic Merfolk
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Merfolk Looter
4 Merfolk of the Pearl Trident
3 Reef Shaman
4 Tidal Courier
4 Whirlpool Rider
1 Whirlpool Warrior

28 creatures

4 Aether Burst
2 Coat of Arms
3 Counterspell
1 Deluge
3 Memory Lapse
2 Planar Overlay

15 other spells

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GP Milwaukee: Malice

Mike Pieper

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Main Deck

60 cards

20 Swamp

20 lands

1 Bellowing Fiend
2 Bog Imp
1 Boneshard Slasher
1 Braids, Cabal Minion
1 Childhood Horror
2 Crypt Creeper
1 Dakmor Lancer
3 Drudge Skeletons
1 Fallen Angel
3 Frightcrawler
2 Gravedigger
3 Looming Shade
1 Mournful Zombie
1 Nightscape Familiar
2 Organ Grinder
1 Overeager Apprentice
1 Phyrexian Hulk
1 Plague Beetle
1 Quagmire Druid
1 Scathe Zombies
1 Soul Scourge
1 Zombie Cannibal

32 creatures

1 Corrupt
1 Dark Banishing
1 Dead Ringers
1 Mind Rot
1 Mind Sludge
2 Strength of Lunacy
1 Tainted Aether

8 other spells

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