Type I

Deck image: baileys_oubliette.jpg

Magic has come up in conversations at work only a handful of times (not counting my geeking out at Josh about the computer game). When it does you can almost guarantee the first word out of Jeff's mouth will be, "Oubliette". So, based on that and various other statements here is my best guess at the type of deck he would have played.

Update: I showed my attempt to re-create his deck to Mr. Bailey himself and he managed to remember which cards he actually did play with. Turns out I was only off by 12, not bad out of 60. And he must have been playing back around Unlimited, because when he played there weren't "Artifact Creatures" yet, meaning that a Juggernaut was just an artifact and unaffected by Balance.

Here are the corrections:

-3 Island -3 Swamp -1 Psionic Blast -1 Demonic Tutor -1 Mind Twist -1 Sol Ring

+4 Balance +4 Serendib Efreet +2 White Knight +1 Recall +1 Nightmare

Clearly the numbers aren't adding up, but that's the gist of it. He played with far less mana than I would considering that his deck requires 2 each of all three colors to cast his spells, and didn't play some cards that seem like no brainers, at least they do after they've been restricted. Anyway, I might come back and try to reconcile those extra 2 cards I appear to have left in when I'm less tired, or maybe not. Little slice of MtG history either way.

posted by Nils T. Devine  # Saturday, April 16, 2005