{"id":1346,"date":"2025-08-01T17:19:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:19:53","slug":"history-of-the-sligh-geeba-deck-in-mtg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/1346","title":{"rendered":"History of the Sligh \/ Geeba deck in MTG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started playing <em>Magic The Gathering<\/em> when I was at Stanford back in early 1994, and introduced it to my high school friends when I went back to Atlanta that summer. One of those friends was Jay Schneider, who has this amazing habit of taking up a hobby and turning it into something world-class, so it didn&#8217;t really surprise me when a couple of years later I heard Jay had developed a new kind of deck that was turning the competitive MTG world on its head: a deck that looked for all the world like a bunch of random red crap commons, but just&#8230; kept&#8230; beating you. Jay called the deck <em>Geeba<\/em>, but everyone else called it the <em>Sligh Deck<\/em> after Paul Sligh, another friend who played <em>Geeba<\/em> in the tournament where it first came to prominence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, The Tranquil Domain has just put out a 15 minute interview with Jay and Paul about <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gF7Jx4wA1Ko?si=YYqzLbs-gOYpVzWe\">the history of the Geeba \/ Sligh deck<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started playing Magic The Gathering when I was at Stanford back in early 1994, and introduced it to my high school friends when I went back to Atlanta that summer. 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