Confiscate

The Confiscate card included in the World Championship Decks 2000 was a direct reprint of the version featured in the Urza's Destiny expansion, released in 1999. This specific deck was one of four pre-constructed sets released by Wizards of the Coast to replicate the exact 75-card lists used by the top players at the 2000 Magic: The Gathering World Championships. These decks were designed as a commemorative educational tool for players, allowing them to experience high-level competitive strategies from that era while featuring unique gold-bordered backs and signatures to ensure they remained ineligible for official sanctioned tournament play.

The card was illustrated by Donato Giancola, a highly regarded fantasy artist known for his technical precision and use of oil painting. His illustration for Confiscate—a card that allows a player to gain control of a permanent—depicts a surreal, ethereal capture of a magical object, leaning into the high-fantasy aesthetic characteristic of the Urza block. The design was well-regarded for its atmospheric quality, and while the card itself remained a staple of control strategies in the late 90s, the inclusion of Giancola's work in the World Championship Decks cemented its place as a recognizable piece of collectible memorabilia from a pivotal moment in the game's organized play history.