[Combo in 1999] Nostalgia...

[carlossb]

I found some AMAZING deck lists from the Duelist Team Challenge (I think it´s from 1999).
The Classic deck was played by Pat Chapin (in the winner team, by the way...)

7 SoloMoxen
4 Grim Monolith
4 Lion´s Eye Diamond
4 Lotus Petal
4 Mana Vault
4 Mana Crypt

4 City of Brass
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy

1 Abeyance
1 Defense Grid
3 Force of Will

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Braingeyser
1 Memory Jar
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Timespiral
1 Timetwister
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Windfall

1 Demonic Tutor
2 Vampiric Tutor
3 Tinker

1 Grining Totem
1 Hurkyl´s Recall
1 Magma Mine
2 Power Artifact
2 Yawgmoth´s Will
1 Time Walk

SB:
2 Abeyance
1 Balance
1 City of Solitude
2 Disenchant
2 Disrupt
1 FOW
1 Hydroblast
1 Mystical
3 Pyroblast
1 Tinker

It´s a combo deck with Power Artifact + Grim Monolith to get infinite mana.

Back in the day, Grim Monolith, Lion´s Eye Diamond, Lotus Petal, Mana Vault, Mana Crypt, Tinker, Vampiric Tutor and Yawgmoth´s Will weren´t restricted...
I remember there was a period of time when you could anounce a spell, and then play it by sacrifying the Lion´s Eye Diamond...

In the Extended portion of the event, the team was represented by Buehler, who was playing also combo:

1 Capsize
4 Dark Ritual
1 Defense Grid
2 Duress
4 Illusions of Grandeur
4 Lion´s Eye Diamond
1 Karvaek´s Torch
4 Lotus Petal
4 Mana Vault
1 Mind Over Matter
4 Mox Diamond
4 Show and Tell
4 Vampiric Tutor
4 Yawgmoth´s Will
4 Yawgmoth´s Bargain

4 City of Traitors
3 Rootwater Depths
4 Underground Sea
4 Underground River

The extended deck is as fast as today Type 1 combo decks

[xthexpunisherx]

It doesn't get much more old school than that (I guess minus recall.dec 40 recall 20 lotus (before there really was a .dec)).  I can only imagine how short games would be before the bannings if you could announce and then sac LED.  The one thing I would find interesting is to see how much damage people used to take by using 4x Mana Crypt (But I guess your opponent would be dead before you got a chance to flip the coin anyway).
Good Find!  

[rozetta]

Were these before or after the change in rules that allowed you to negate the mana crypt coin flip if it was tapped? Not that it matters much anyway - these decks look easily fast enough to not worry about that. Hell, if Mana Crypt was unrestricted now, I'd use 4 in any combo deck.

[carlossb]

I´ve playing soo many years that sometimes old rules are in the same black-box.
Anyway, I think you could tap it to untap a Mana Vault or something so you didn´t have to roll the die.

This decks is something like a history-lesson to the people who started to play not so many years ago, so they didn`t know how good was combo...

[Dream_Merchant]

times were old, times were terrible.. dragons ruled the sky and legends walked the earth as the meek trembled under the power of true b0rkenness.

now all is forgotten and we discuss how good shrapnel blast is.