Team CMU

Team CMU was an influential professional Magic: The Gathering team from 1997-2001 known for innovating numerous deck archetypes and strategies and producing many of Magic's future developers, writers and champions. It included such future famous persons as: Erik Lauer, Andrew Cuneo, Randy Buehler, Mike Turian, Aaron Forsythe, Brian Schneider, Nate Heiss and Gary Wise. The team was formed to prepare for Pro Tour Chicago 1997 and was named after the university where several of its originating members were attending, Carnegie Mellon University.

Decks
 Lands 2 Bad River 4 Badlands 3 Gemstone Mine 3 Lake of the Dead 4 Scrubland 8 Swamp

Creatures 1 Ihsan's Shade 4 Knight of Stromgald 4 Order of the Ebon Hand

Instants and Sorceries 4 Demonic Consultation 3 Disenchant 4 Drain Life 2 Firestorm 4 Hymn to Tourach 2 Incinerate 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Necropotence

Sideboard 2 Circle of Protection: Black 1 Disenchant 1 Firestorm 3 Honorable Passage 2 Mind Warp 3 Pyroblast 3 Terror 

 Lands 3 Ancient Tomb 4 Wasteland 19 Forest

Artifacts 4 Cursed Scroll

Creatures 3 Horned Sliver 4 Metallic Sliver 4 Muscle Sliver 4 Rootwalla 4 Skyshroud Ranger 3 Trained Armodon

Instants and Sorceries 4 Elvish Fury 4 Winters Grasp 

 Lands 4 Brushland 4 Grasslands 2 Quicksand 2 Wasteland 7 Forest 7 Plains

Artifacts 4 Scroll Rack

Creatures 2 Archangel

Enchantments 1 Aura of Silence 4 Oath of Druids

Instants and Sorceries 2 Cataclysm 2 Creeping Mold 2 Disenchant 2 Enlightened Tutor 4 Gaea's Blessing 3 Gerrard's Wisdom 4 Mulch 4 Wrath of God

Sideboard 4 Abeyance 2 Armageddon 1 Choke 1 Circle of Protection: Red 2 Disenchant 1 Elephant Grass 1 Emerald Charm 1 Gerrard's Wisdom 2 Jester's Cap 

 Lands 12 Forest 10 Swamp

Artifacts 3 Scroll Rack

Creatures 1 Hermit Druid 2 Mindless Automaton 1 Mogg Fanatic 1 Spike Breeder 2 Spike Feeder 3 Spike Weaver 1 Stronghold Assassin 2 Workhorse 4 Wall of Blossoms

Enchantments 4 Earthcraft 4 Overgrowth 4 Recurring Nightmare 3 Survival of the Fittest

Instants and Sorceries 3 Corpse Dance 

 Lands 1 Caldera Lake 4 Reflecting Pool 14 Island 10 Mountain

Artifacts 1 Scroll Rack

Creatures 1 Mogg Fanatic 4 Shard Phoenix

Instants and Sorceries 3 Capsize 4 Counterspell 2 Dismiss 4 Forbid 4 Intuition 4 Mana leak 4 Shock

Sideboard 1 Dismiss 3 Mogg Fanatic 3 Portcullis 3 Shattering Pulse 2 Stalking Stones 3 Thalakos Drifters 

 Lands 4 Quicksand 4 Stalking Stones 18 Island

Artifacts 4 Nevinyrral's Disk

Creatures 1 Rainbow Efreet

Instants and Sorceries 4 Counterspell 4 Dismiss 2 Dissipate 3 Forbid 4 Force Spike 4 Impulse 3 Mana Leak 1 Memory Lapse 4 Whispers of the Muse

Sideboard 2 Capsize 1 Grindstone 4 Hydroblast 4 Sea Sprite 4 Wasteland 

 Lands 4 Stalking Stones 19 Island

Artifacts 3 Mox Diamond

Creatures 3 Keeper of the Mind 4 Manakin 4 Mawcor 3 Thalakos Drifters 4 Tradewind Rider

Enchantments 4 Curiosity 2 Legacy's Allure 1 Mind Over Matter

Instants and Sorceries 2 Capsize 3 Counterspell 4 Forbid

Sideboard 1 Capsize 4 Hammerhead Shark 2 Legacy's Allure 1 Mind Over Matter 3 Propaganda 1 Rootwater Hunter 1 Thalakos Drifters 2 Whispers of the Muse 

 Lands 3 City of Brass 4 Tolarian Academy 3 Tundra 4 Underground Sea 3 Volcanic Island 4 Wasteland

Artifacts 4 Lotus Petal 4 Mana Vault 1 Mind Over Matter 4 Mox Diamond 3 Scroll Rack 2 Urza's Bauble

Enchantments 1 Mind Over Matter

Instants and Sorceries 3 Abeyance 2 Counterspell 4 Impulse 1 Stroke of Genius 4 Time Spiral 3 Vampiric Tutor 4 Windfall

Sideboard 1 Abeyance 1 Capsize 4 Chill 1 City of Solitude 1 Gloom 1 Gorilla Shaman 2 Hydroblast 1 Perish 3 Pyroblast 

 Lands 4 Bayou 2 Gaea's Cradle 2 Savannah 2 Taiga 2 Tropical Island 3 Wasteland 3 Forest 2 Swamp

Creatures 2 Ashen Ghoul 4 Birds of Paradise 1 Cartographer 3 Elves of Deep Shadow 2 Fyndhorn Elves 1 Gorilla Shaman 1 Great Whale 1 Hermit Druid 1 Krovikan Horror 1 Lhurgoyf 2 Llanowar Elves 1 Quirion Ranger 1 Ravenous Baboons 1 Spike Feeder 1 Triskelion 1 Uktabi Orangutan 2 Wall of Roots 1 Wood Elves

Enchantments 2 Mirri's Guile 4 Recurring Nightmare 4 Survival of the Fittest

Instants and Sorceries 2 Buried Alive 1 Vampiric Tutor

Sideboard 2 Ashen Ghoul 2 Brass Man 1 Granger Guildmage 1 Krovikan Horror 1 Monk Realist 1 Night Soil 3 Red  Elemental Blast 1 Sand Golem 1 Titania's Song 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Wall of Blossoms </d>

 Lands 4 Faerie Conclave 4 Stalking Stones 4 Wasteland 16 Island

Artifacts 4 Powder Keg

Creatures 3 Masticore

Enchantments 4 Treachery

Instants and Sorceries 4 Counterspell 4 Dismiss 4 Forbid 4 Mana Leak 1 Miscalculation 4 Whispers of the Muse

Sideboard 4 Annul 1 Capsize 3 Chill 3 Legacy's Allure 1 Masticore 2 Maze of Shadows 1 Stroke of Genius </d>

 Lands 2 Slippery Karst 4 Treetop Village 8 Forest 10 Island

Creatures 4 Deranged Hermit 3 Heart Warden 2 Masticore 2 Morphling 4 Priest of Titania 1 Wizard Mentor 4 Yavimaya Elder 4 Yavimaya Granger

Enchantments 4 Opposition 4 Treachery

Instants and Sorceries 4 Annul

Sideboard 2 Arcane Laboratory 1 Confiscate 2 Douse 2 Gaea's Embrace 2 Harmonic Convergence 2 Quash 2 Powder Keg 2 Power Sink </d>

 Lands 2 Gaea's Cradle 4 Karplusan Forest 4 Rishadan Port 2 Treetop Village 11 Forest 2 Mountain

Creatures 4 Avalanche Riders 4 Birds of Paradise 4 Deranged Hermit 4 Llanowar Elves 3 Masticore 2 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary 3 Skyshroud Poacher 3 Yavimaya Elder

Instants and Sorceries 4 Arc Lightning 4 Plow Under

Sideboard 2 Ancient Hydra 4 Blastoderm 2 Boil 1 Masticore 1 Splinter 3 Thran Foundry 2 Uktabi Orangutan </d>

 Lands 19 Plains 4 Rishadan Port

Creatures 4 Fresh Volunteers 4 Longbow Archer 4 Mother of Runes 4 Ramosian Sergeant 4 Steadfast Guard

Enchantments 4 Crusade 1 Glorious Anthem 4 Parallax Wave

Instants and Sorceries 3 Armageddon 3 Disenchant 2 Reverent Mantra

Sideboard 1 Absolute Law 1 Armageddon 1 Circle of Protection: Red 3 Defender en-Vec 1 Disenchant 1 Erase 1 Glorious Anthem 2 Light of Day 4 Wrath of God </d>