WC97: 1997 Svend Geertsen Biography Card

Introduction

Geertsen, a sixteen-year-old high-school student from Copenhagen, Denmark, played a mono-green deck known affectionately as “Seor Stompie.” Of the eight finalists, Geertsen had the best record in the Standard (Type II) portion of the tournament, going 601. This deck is overloaded with fast green creatures, thirty-three in all. The only noncreature cards are Giant Growth, Bounty of the Hunt, and Winter Orb. The deck also exploits the interaction between Rogue Elephant, Harvest Worm, and Heart of Yavimaya.