World Championship Decks/2001

2001 World Championship Decks, Toronto
The 2001 World Championship took place on August 8–12, 2001 in Toronto, Canada. Four decks were released as part of the World Championship Decks series with gold-bordered cards.
==Decklists==
===Tom van de Logt, World Champion===
"Tom van de Logt's aggressive, black-red 'Machine Head' deck used the good ol' 'blow stuff up' method. While creatures like Plague Spitter wiped out his opponents' smaller creatures, more ferocious beasts like Flametongue Kavu aggressively cleared the board of larger threats."
<d title="Machine Head">
Creatures
4 Plague Spitter
3 Phyrexian Scuta
3 Skizzik
2 Flametongue Kavu
2 Crypt Angel
4 Blazing Specter
Sorceries
4 Duress
Instants
4 Dark Ritual
4 Terminate
3 Vendetta
3 Urza's Rage
Lands
6 Swamp
6 Mountain
4 Rishadan Port
4 Urborg Volcano
4 Sulfurous Springs
Sideboard
4 Scoria Cat
3 Addle
2 Persecute
1 Pyroclasm
3 Phyrexian Arena
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Crypt Angel
</d>
===Alex Borteh, Finalist===
"Alex Borteh's monoblue combo deck contained twelve 1-toughness creatures. These helped hold the board until his Static Orb-Opposition combo could lock down his opponents' permanents--clearing the way for a horde of Merfolk to pour through for the victory."
<d title="Merfolk Opposition">
Artifacts
4 Static Orb
Creatures
2 Darting Merfolk
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Merfolk Looter
4 Merfolk of the Pearl Trident
4 Vodalian Merchant
2 Waterfront Bouncer
Enchantments
4 Opposition
Instants
4 Counterspell
4 Gush
4 Thwart
Lands
20 Island
Sideboard
3 Hibernation
3 Mana Maze
2 Misdirection
2 Prodigal Sorcerer
1 Rushing River
2 Teferi's Response
2 Wash Out
</d>
===Antoine Ruel, Semifinalist===
"Antoine Ruel's blue-black-red control deck survived the pressure in the early game with its almost overwhelming card-drawing capability. And in the end, Nether Spirit kept rising from his graveyard to take down his opponents."
<d title="Blue-Black-Red Nether-Go">
Artifacts
2 Tsabo's Web
Creatures
3 Nether Spirit
Instants
4 Accumulated Knowledge
4 Counterspell
2 Crosis's Charm
3 Fact or Fiction
4 Fire/Ice
3 Opt
2 Spite/Malice
2 Tsabo's Decree
4 Undermine
2 Urza's Rage
Sorceries
2 Duress
Lands
8 Island
4 Salt Marsh
3 Shivan Reef
1 Sulfurous Springs
4 Underground River
3 Urborg Volcano
Sideboard
2 Duress
2 Engineered Plague
2 Lobotomy
3 Meekstone
2 Pyroclasm
1 Teferi's Response
3 Tsabo's Assassin
</d>
===Jan Tomcani, Quarterfinalist===
"Jan Tomcani's green-red-black 'Fires"' deck used early mana-producing creatures to play a quick Fires of Yavimaya. Shortly thereafter, Tomcani's hasted big creatures pounded opponents' life totals to dust."
<d title="Dark Fires">
Creatures
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Blastoderm
4 Thornscape Battlemage
2 Spiritmonger
2 Flametongue Kavu
2 Kavu Chameleon
Enchantments
4 Fires of Yavimaya
4 Saproling Burst
Instants
4 Fire/Ice
2 Urza's Rage
Lands
8 Forest
3 Mountain
2 City of Brass
2 Llanowar Wastes
2 Sulfurous Springs
3 Karplusan Forest
4 Rishadan Port
Sideboard
2 Kavu Chameleon
2 Obliterate
3 Thunderscape Battlemage
3 Blood Oath
3 Boil
2 Tangle
</d>
Category:World Championship decks