My memory is a little fuzzy as this happened 16 years ago. This is from what I recall so some of this is bound to not be correct.The day before Hacker was going to fly to Rome, I playtested with him for several hours. He told me about this deck that he and his buddy, Dave Smith, designed together. He had created the expected decks for the tournament and I played them while he played his version of the Academy deck. After the night, I was really excited for him because I knew he had a great deck. He consistently won on turn 2-3 with the deck. I was qualified for the tournament, but chose not to go. I remember telling him that if I had known about his deck, I would've gone because it was not only a great deck, it was insanely fun.Based upon what I remember from that night, I believe the deck was something like the following:3 Gustha's Scepter (I remember him running only 2-3 of these)4 Mox Diamond4 Mana Vault4 Lotus Petal4 Lion's Eye Diamond4 Windfall4 Time Spiral2 Stroke of Genius3 Prosperity3 Brianstorm3 Impulse2 Vampiric Tutor4 Yawmoth's Will2 Twiddle2 Abeyance (these may have been in his sideboard)4 Tolarian Academy4 Underground Sea4 City of BrassThe deck was extremely light on land. I seem to remember him only running 12 lands. It might have been 14 lands with Tundras to support the Abeyances.I don't even know if Prosperity was legal in that tournament, but I seem to remember that he ran them. If it wasn't legal, then I may be talking out of my ass here. Prosperity worked really well with Windfall. Prosperity hurt him against decks that had Force of Will, but he was not expecting a lot of counters at the tournament. The High Tide deck and Hovi's Academy deck were not on his radar at all. This was a time where deck tech was not found all over the Internet. The decks he created for me to playtest against him were Necro, Survival, Sligh and other staple decks that ended up not being successful at the tournament. I never won a single game that night with those decks against him.He definitely had 4 Yawgmoth's Will. His whole deck revolved around Yawgmoth's Will. Gustha's Scepter was just to facilitate Yawgmoth's Will and fuel the Academy. In fact, there an article on the Wizards of the Coast website that I'm pretty sure is wrong (). I wasn't at the tournament, but I clearly remember the story that Hacker told me about that particular win that showcased the power of Yawmoth's Will.He was playing against a guy playing Survival of the Fittest/Recurring Nightmare. Hacker looked at his opening hand and decided to keep a no land hand. He played Gustha's Scepter and said "Go". His opponent played his optimal first turn move which was land + Bird of Paradise. The article says he hid a Windfall, but that isn't right. I remember Hacker saying that he hid a Yawmoth's Will under the Scepter. On his turn, he dropped 3 Lion's Eye Diamonds and sacrificed them for 9 mana, discarding a Windfall in the process. He tapped the Scepter to get back his Will and with the mana from the Lion's Eyes, he cast the Will. He recast the 3 Lion's Eyes for 9 more mana, cast Windfall to draw a bunch of cards because his opponent had an almost full hand and went on to win the game.EDIT:Dave Smith and Hacker mentioned to me that they did not run Time Spirals. They played 14 lands (2 Wastelands) and ran 4 Abeyance in addition to 1 Mind Over Matter, 4 Intuition and only 1 Stroke. Updated decklist below. It still may not be 100% accurate as we are all going from memory, but it's pretty close. Hacker also confirmed that my recount of his 2nd turn win where all he played was a Gustha's Scepter on turn one is correct and the one on the Wizard's website is not.3 Gustha's Scepter4 Mox Diamond4 Mana Vault4 Lotus Petal4 Lion's Eye Diamond4 Windfall4 Intuition1 Stroke of Genius3 Prosperity4 Impulse4 Yawmoth's Will2 Twiddle1 Mind Over Matter4 Abeyance2 Wasteland4 Tolarian Academy4 Underground Sea4 City of Brass