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Quiz about MTG Deck Archtypes and Tournament History

MTG Deck Archtypes and Tournament History Quiz

This is a quiz on all the MTG Archtype decks and Tournament History, from the very beginning to the recent Type 2 decks. Although created when Odyssey was at its final T2 states, this has been updated for recent times.

A multiple-choice quiz by monkus2k. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
monkus2k

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
139,771

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
593

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Question 1 of 10

1. What is the overall strategy of a Psychatog deck? Hint

Sacrifice tons of artifacts for massive damage

Draw tons of cards, then discard them all to the 'tog

Force the opponent to discard cards, and keep them in a lockdown

Swarm over the opponent with tons of small black and blue creatures

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Question 2 of 10

2. The Age of Magic, known as "Black Summer", was named after which card?

Answer: (The name of a card)

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Question 3 of 10

3. What two cards were the first "Major Dominating" cards of the Type 2 Environment? Hint

Black Vise and Zuran Orb

Black Lotus and Time Walk

Ivory Tower and Black Vise

Phage the Untouchable and Akroma, Angel of Wrath

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Question 4 of 10

4. What is the most popular Odyssey-block deck? Hint

Blue and Green Wild Mongrel Madness Deck

Wizard Tribal Deck

White weenie

Green and White Phantom Deck

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Question 5 of 10

5. What card was banned from Mercadian Masques-Block tournaments, since over half of the decks competing in them were based around this card? Hint

Cateran Overlord

Flowstone Overseer

Belbe's Portal

Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero

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Question 6 of 10

6. The Archdeck "True Discard decks" died out practically right after it was created, but was brought back by which card?
(What card adds a core to pure discard decks?)

Answer: (A black card, One Word)

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Question 7 of 10

7. What card was known as a "Wrath of God", "Armageddon", and "Mind Twist" all in one?

Answer: (A very cheap White card)

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Question 8 of 10

8. What change in elf decks was brought around greatly in the Onslaught cycle? Hint

Elves always formed only Green mana, but with Wirewood Channeler, now they can provide any color

With Onslaught, there are a lot more elf decks which used the elves for power, instead of just mana.

Elves were never really in mono-colored decks, but now they were in a lot more mono-green decks

Before Onslaught, no elves had any other creature type, but now there are "Elf Wizard"s and "Elf Mutant"s

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Question 9 of 10

9. What card brought a huge number of Cycling decks into the environment?

Answer: (A white enchantment)

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Question 10 of 10

10. What card is quickly replacing Terror and Dark Banishing as a new, cheap, easy to use Type 2 Creature Removal Spell? Hint

Execute

Befoul

Smother

Dregs of Sorrow

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is the overall strategy of a Psychatog deck?

Answer: Draw tons of cards, then discard them all to the 'tog

Psychatog has the ability to discard a cards for +1/+1, and remove 2 cards in your graveyard from the game for +1/+1. Therefore, with a 7 card hand, the Psychatog can get +10/+10, and with certain spells, much more is possible.

2. The Age of Magic, known as "Black Summer", was named after which card?

Answer: Necropotence

The summer of 1996 was known as the Black Summer because over 1/2 of all decks competing in large tournaments were based around Necropotence. Ironically, the winner of the tournament was Tom Champeng, who played a White Weenie deck, with tons of Pro-Black creatures.

3. What two cards were the first "Major Dominating" cards of the Type 2 Environment?

Answer: Black Vise and Zuran Orb

Black Vise was extremely devastating, and well known throughout the early T2 tournament scene. In fact, it was so powerful, it was soon restricted, and stays that way now. Zuran Orb was also considered extremely powerful, as it could provide an extra boost of life, plus, if your lands are to be destroyed, you can still get life out of them (I.E. Armageddon)

4. What is the most popular Odyssey-block deck?

Answer: Blue and Green Wild Mongrel Madness Deck

Blue/green madness decks have taken over the Odyssey block. Their speed and swiftness is amazing, and with blue involved a few good counterspells, like Circular Logic, make the B/G Madness/Flashback deck a tough deck to beat within the Odyssey block.

5. What card was banned from Mercadian Masques-Block tournaments, since over half of the decks competing in them were based around this card?

Answer: Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero

Over half of the decks competing in the Mercadian Masques tournaments were Rebel decks, so the DCI had to do something about it. By banning the Rebel's most powerful card, they severely lessened the number of "rebels" in the tournaments.

6. The Archdeck "True Discard decks" died out practically right after it was created, but was brought back by which card? (What card adds a core to pure discard decks?)

Answer: Megrim

A real "True Discard" deck couldn't last, since even when the lock is maintained, there is no way to win. When Megrim came, however, they were all brought back with a new twist; Discarding cards was a lot more painful this time.

7. What card was known as a "Wrath of God", "Armageddon", and "Mind Twist" all in one?

Answer: Balance

Until it was restricted, Balance was an extremely powerful card to be played. It was simple to discard a number of your lands to Zuran Orb, play out a bit of your hand, sac a few creatures to Diamond Valley for life, then cast balance to wipe out your opponent's lands, creatures, and hand.

8. What change in elf decks was brought around greatly in the Onslaught cycle?

Answer: With Onslaught, there are a lot more elf decks which used the elves for power, instead of just mana.

Well, before this elves weren't really ever used for anything besides mana, except in a few decks. Wrong Answers: Elves could always get multi-colored mana, with Quirion Elves and Llanowar Dead. Elves were actually mostly in Mono-green decks, so that doesn't count. There were also elves with different types, like Llanowar Knight, who's an "Elf Knight".

9. What card brought a huge number of Cycling decks into the environment?

Answer: Astral Slide

Astral slide carved the way for "Cycling Decks", decks that could use cycling cards in conjunction with Lightning Rift for damage, Astral Slide for easy Morph creatures, and still get to draw a card to do it again.

10. What card is quickly replacing Terror and Dark Banishing as a new, cheap, easy to use Type 2 Creature Removal Spell?

Answer: Smother

Smother is being used a lot more commonly now, since many small creatures with powerful abilities are entering the fray. Smother, along with Chainer's Edict for large creatures, are quickly entering black decks all over the T-2 Environment.

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Source: Author monkus2k

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