Prosperous Bloom

Prosperous Bloom a.k.a. ProsBloom or Bloom-Drain was a Mirage-era combo deck based around <c>Prosperity</c>, <c>Cadaverous Bloom</c>, and <c>Squandered Resources</c>.Deck Deconstruction: Prosperous Bloom by Beth Moursund, The Duelist # 19 (October 1997), P. 48-50 The deck would remove most of its hand to generate large amounts of mana with Cadaverous Bloom, feed that into a Prosperity, sacrifice its lands to Squandered Resources, and eventually win with a giant <c>Drain Life</c>. Its functionality was partially based on the old rules for life loss, in which players only lost the game at the end of a phase; frequently the pilot would go to zero life from multiple <c>Infernal Contract</c>s before restoring their life total with Drain Life. While the deck is no longer played, it was one of the first true combo decks to dominate the Pro Tour.
<d title="Wishing Well - Pro Tour Paris 1997 (Mike Long and David Mills)">
Lands
3 Bad River
4 Undiscovered Paradise
5 Island
6 Swamp
7 Forest
Creatures
Instants
1 Emerald Charm
1 Power Sink
1 Three Wishes
2 Memory Lapse
4 Impulse
4 Vampiric Tutor
Sorceries
1 Drain Life
1 Elven Cache
4 Infernal Contract
4 Natural Balance
4 Prosperity
Enchantments
4 Cadaverous Bloom
4 Squandered Resources
Sideboard
3 City of Solitude
4 Elephant Grass
1 Elven Cache
3 Emerald Charm
1 Memory Lapse
1 Power Sink
2 Wall of Roots
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==References==
Category:Deck archetypes