Pox primer question

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

I've been working on a pox type 1 deck. I've read the thread on this topic in this forum, and rakso's and lelepreux's pox primer. My question concerns the latter:

In it, there are two decklists listed, one with 61 and one with 62 cards. Why don't these decks contain just 60 cards? What am I missing here?

FYI, the decklists:

POX ROCKS, MATHIEU BEDARD AKA LE_LEPREUX, 2001
Disruption/Removal (20)
4 Pox
4 Duress
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Sinkhole
1 Balance
3 Spinning Darkness

Damage (12)
4 The Rack
4 Steel Golem
4 Cursed Scroll

Utility (3)
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

Mana (26)
4 Dark Ritual
2 Charcoal Diamond
1 Mox Jet
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Scrubland
11 Swamp

Sideboard
4 Phyrexian Negator
4 Dystopia
4 Funeral Charm
3 Planar Void


RAKSO’S CASUAL POX, OSCAR TAN AKA RAKSO, 2001
Disruption/Removal (20)
4 Pox
4 Sinkhole
4 Duress
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Diabolic Edict

Damage (12)
4 Nether Spirit
4 The Rack
3 Cursed Scroll

Utility (3)
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Demonic Consultation

 Mana (27)
4 Dark Ritual
1 Charcoal Diamond
1 Sol Ring
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
16 Swamp

Thanks in advance!

[Puschkin]

It can be mistakes that occured by cutting and pasting. And the second one says that it is a casual deck, when playing casual you sometimes don´t cut to exactly 60 cards when you don´t WANT to cut any further because it would hit a card that you like so much. In both decklists I am curious to see Charcoal Diamond, BTW, so maybe this is an error, but I am no Pox expert whatsoever.

Also, there is this theory, that decks with a certain amount of lands and with a certain mana curve would be -mathematically- better of running 61 cards. This theory never really made it into professional Magic, but mostly because the algorithm envolved was very complicated and the gained benefit so comparebly small. And again, a casual deck wouldn´t bother.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the answer Pushkin!
Personally I also thought that it was some error, but I thought it could also be some sort of 'copyright protection', or an indication that it isn't a tuned deck.