I played MtG during the 1990s. Not at tournaments or anything, just at the university. My decks had generally been fairly standard (with my fast-big green that

I played MtG during the 1990s. Not at tournaments or anything, just at the university. My decks had generally been fairly standard (with my fast-big green that would often play a Craw Wyrm in turn 3 as my staple). At some point I got a bit annoyed at all these new game-breaking cards that people used to build game-breaking decks, so I went to look for a game-breaking card to build a deck around, and I found the Tombstone Stairwell. I still have that Tombstone Stairwell deck, and it's nuts. It's a bit fragile because it's easy to disrupt if you can counter or disenchant, but when it gets going, it's marvelous to behold. It has tons of cheap black creatures that die easily, the Tombstone Stairwell that creates zombies for every creature in my graveyard (every turn of every player again and again, which makes this even more effective in multiplayer), and lots of stuff to sacrifice creatures to. Ashnod's Altar and Soul Net can rapidly give me ridiculous amounts of life, which Necropotence turns into more cards in hand. Fallen Angel for big killing blows. Sadistic Glee to pump up any other creature for a killing blow. Or I just swamp them in an endless mass of zombies of course. But if you can just counter that Tombstone Stairwell, I'm a bit stuck. Well, as a black weenie deck it's not bad either.