Japan Nationals 2001 Day 2: The Standard Metagame
Keita Mori
The Top 16 of yesterday's draft contain some of the best-known Japanese players. Leading the pack is Goro Matsuo, an old-time player who has come out of retirement with a vengeance, and Min-Su Kim, a regular at the Tokyo DCI Japan Tournament Center.
Below are the decks these players have chosen to play, which are sure to represent and define the metagame for today.
| Rank |
Player |
Points |
Op.Win% |
| 1 |
Matsuo, Goro |
18 |
66.66% |
| 2 |
Kin, Minsu |
18 |
55.55% |
| 3 |
Okamoto, Jin |
15 |
63.88% |
| 4 |
Kawasaki, Hiroshi |
15 |
63.88% |
| 5 |
Usami, Yukihiro |
15 |
63.88% |
| 6 |
Hassaku, Jinpei |
15 |
61.11% |
| 7 |
Nishioka, Kazuya |
15 |
61.11% |
| 8 |
Higashino, Masayuki |
15 |
61.11% |
| 9 |
Mori, Masaya |
15 |
58.33% |
| 10 |
Oguri, Fumiaki |
15 |
56.48% |
| 11 |
Kuroda, Masashiro |
15 |
55.55% |
| 12 |
Nakamura, Satoshi |
15 |
55.55% |
| 13 |
Morita, Masahiko |
15 |
55.55% |
| 14 |
Anan, Go |
15 |
53.70% |
| 15 |
Sasakawa, Tomohide |
15 |
52.77% |
| 16 |
Ando, Reiji |
15 |
51.85% |
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LONG FIRE designed by Mike Long Goro Matsuo 1st after Day 1
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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1 City of Brass
8 Forest
4 Karplusan Forest
5 Mountain
4 Rishadan Port
1 Rith's Grove
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Blastoderm
4 Flametongue Kavu
4 Llanowar Elves
1 Rith the Awakener
4 Yavimaya Barbarian
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2 Assault/Battery
2 Chimeric Idol
4 Fires of Yavimaya
4 Saproling Burst
4 Urza's Rage
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2 Artifact Mutation
2 Boil
2 Hull breach
2 Kavu Chameleon
2 Obliterate
2 Rith the Awakener
1 Shivan Wurm
2 Simoon
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Machine Head Min-Su Kim
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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4 Urborg Volcano
6 Mountain
4 Rishadan Port
4 Sulfurous Springs
7 Swamp
4 Blazing Specter
4 Phyrexian Scuta
4 Plague Spitter
4 Skizzik
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4 Dark Ritual
4 Duress
4 Terminate
4 Urza's Rage
4 Vendetta
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3 Boil
2 Blood Oath
3 Flametongue Kavu
1 Obliterate
3 Scorching Lava
1 Terminate
2 Void
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Aggro ORB Jin Okamoto
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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18 Island
2 Drake Hatchling
4 Ribbon Snake
2 Rishadan Airship
3 Waterfront Bouncer
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4 Counterspell
4 Foil
4 Gush
2 Misdirection
4 Opt
2 Rushing River
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Static Orb
3 Thwart
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2 Gainsay
3 Hibernation
3 Prodigal Sorcerer
2 Rishadan Airship
2 Wash Out
3 Withdraw
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Counter Rebel Hiroshi Kawasaki
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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4 Coastal Tower
4 Adarkar Wastes
9 Island
8 Plains
2 Defiant Falcon
2 Defiant Vanguard
3 Lin Sivvi ,Defiant Hero
4 Meddling Mage
1 Rebel Informer
1 Ramosian Lieutenant
4 Ramosian Sergeant
1 Ramosian Sky Marshal
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4 Absorb
4 Brainstorm
4 Counterspell
3 Disenchant
2 Reverent Mantra
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1 Disenchant
3 Disrupt
2 Dominate
3 Gainsay
4 Mageta the Lion
1 Reverent Mantra
1 Worship
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MORI-KATSU-GO Yukihiro Usami
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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4 Underground River
12 Island
1 Rath's Edge
4 Salt Marsh
3 Swamp
1 Ascendant Evincar
3 Nether Spirit
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4 Accumulated Knowledge
4 Counterspell
1 Cremate
4 Daze
2 Duress
4 Fact or Fiction
3 Foil
1 Misdirection
2 Recoil
4 Undermine
3 Vendetta
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3 Air Elemental
1 Cremate
1 Dominate
2 Duress
2 Engineered Plague
2 Juntu Stakes
2 Teferi's Response
2 Tsabo's Decree
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Rebel Jinpei Hassaku
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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4 Dust Bowl
22 Plains
4 Defiant Falcon
2 Defiant Vanguard
4 Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero
2 Ramosian Lieutenant
4 Ramosian Sergeant
1 Ramosian Sky Marshal
4 Steadfast Guard
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4 Disenchant
4 Parallax Wave
4 Reverent Mantra
1 Seal of Cleansing
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4 Afterlife
2 Liberate
2 Rebel Informer
3 Seal of Cleansing
4 Wrath of God
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Nether Void Kazuya Nishioka
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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2 Dust Bowl
8 Mountain
4 Rishadan Port
4 Sulfurous Springs
4 Swamp
4 Urborg Volcano
4 Nether Spirit
1 Pyre Zombie
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2 Cave-In
4 Duress
4 Pillage
4 Seal of Fire
4 Terminate
3 Urza's Rage
4 Vendetta
4 Void
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4 Addle
4 Mogg Salvage
2 Obliterate
3 Pyre Zombie
2 Tsabo's Decree
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Opp-Orb Fish Designed by Tsuyoshi Fujita Masayuki Higashino
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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18 Island
2 Rishadan Port
4 Coral Merfolk
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Merfolk Looter
3 Merfolk of the Pearl Trident
4 Spiketail Hatchling
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1 Counterspell
1 Daze
3 Foil
4 Gush
4 Opposition
4 Static Orb
4 Thwart
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1 Bribery
3 Counterspell
2 Daze
1 Foil
4 Glacial Wall
2 Hibernation
2 Misdirection
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Square Void designed by Chikara Hayashi
Masaya Mori
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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2 Darigaaz's Caldera
1 Forest
4 Mountain
2 Shivan Oasis
4 Sulfurous Springs
6 Swamp
4 Urborg Volcano
3 Plague Spitter
4 Pyre Zombie
4 Thunderscape Battlemage
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1 Addle
4 Assault/Battery
4 Duress
3 Moss Diamond
4 Terminate
3 Tsabo's Web
4 Urza's Rage
3 Void
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1 Addle
2 Hull Breach
2 Pyroclasm
3 Saproling Burst
3 Tangle
2 Tsabo's Decree
1 Tsabo's Web
1 Yawgmoth's Agenda
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Big Blue Fumiaki Oguri
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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21 Island
2 Rath's Edge
2 Mahamoti Djinn
3 Spiketail Hatchling
3 Thieving Magpie
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4 Accumulated Knowledge
2 Boomerang
4 Counterspell
2 Daze
2 Dominate
2 Exclude
3 Foil
1 Misdirection
4 Opt
3 Thwart
2 Tsabo's Web
1 Wash Out
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3 Gainsay
2 Hibernation
2 Prodigal Sorcerer
2 Static Orb
2 Submerge
1 Temporal Adept
2 Wall of Air
1 Wash Out
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No Fires Masashiro Kuroda
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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4 Brushland
2 City of Brass
4 Forest
4 Karplusan Forest
4 Mountain
4 Rishadan Port
1 Rith's Grove
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Blastoderm
3 Flametongue Kavu
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Shivan Wurm
1 Tahngarth, Talruum Hero
3 Thornscape Battlemage
4 Thornscape Familiar
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2 Disenchant
3 Seal of Fire
3 Urza's Rage
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3 Aura Mutation
3 Blood Oath
3 Boil
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Obliterate
1 Rith, the Awakener
3 Scorching Lava
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Opp-Orb Satoshi Nakamura
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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10 Forest
12 Island
1 Treva's Ruin
3 Air Elemental
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Llanowar Elves
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4 Chimeric Idol
4 Opposition
3 Repulse
3 Rushing River
4 Saproling Burst
4 Static Orb
4 Tangle Wire
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4 Blurred Mongoose
2 Bribery
4 Kavu Chameleon
2 Teferi's Response
3 Wash Out
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No Fires Masahiko Morita
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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3 Brushland
2 City of Brass
5 Forest
4 Karplusan Forest
4 Mountain
4 Rishadan Port
1 Rith's Grove
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Blastoderm
3 Flametongue Kavu
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Shivan Wurm
1 Tahngarth, Talruum Hero
3 Thornscape Battlemage
4 Thornscape Familiar
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2 Disenchant
2 Ghitu Fire
3 Seal of Fire
3 Urza's Rage
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3 Aura Mutation
3 Blood Oath
3 Boil
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Obliterate
1 Rith, the Awakener
3 Scorching Lava
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Opp-Orb Fish Designed by Tsuyoshi Fujita Go Anan
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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18 Island
2 Rishadan Port
4 Coral Merfolk
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Merfolk Looter
3 Merfolk of the Pearl Trident
4 Spiketail Hatchling
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2 Counterspell
1 Daze
3 Foil
4 Gush
3 Opposition
4 Static Orb
4 Thwart
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2 Bribery
2 Counterspell
2 Daze
1 Foil
2 Gainsay
4 Glacial Wall
1 Hibernation
1 Opposition
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Saturday Night Special Designed by Kazuya Hirabayashi Min-Su Kim
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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4 Karplusan Forest
2 Mountain
4 Rishadan Port
4 Sulfurous Springs
8 Swamp
2 Urborg Volcano
2 Phyrexian Scuta
4 Plague Spitter
1 Pyre Zombie
3 Shivan Zombie
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4 Assault/Battery
4 Chimeric Idol
4 Dark Ritual
4 Duress
3 Terminate
4 Urza's Rage
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3 Blood Oath
1 Flametongue Kavu
4 Flowstone Wall
2 Lightning Dart
1 Pyre Zombie
2 Scorching Lava
1 Terminate
1 Tsabo's Decree
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Fires Designed by Itaru Ishida Reiji Ando
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Main
Deck
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Sideboard
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9 Forest
4 Karplusan Forest
6 Mountain
4 Rishadan Port
1 Rith's Grove
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Blastoderm
3 Flametongue Kavu
4 Llanowar Elves
2 Shivan Wurm
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4 Assault/Battery
4 Chimeric Idol
4 Fires of Yavimaya
3 Ghitu Fire
4 Saproling Burst
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4 Blood Oath
4 Citadel of Pain
1 Obliterate
1 Shivan Wurm
2 Simoon
3 Tangle
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