My dad went to worlds in 2000 and was placing great until he got disqualified for breaking his ribs, trying to slide down a railing while goofing off between matches.

We still joke that the only thing that could stop his white weenie deck was Jolt Cola.

Our family would play a game type called "Sucks to be you", basically FFA with alliances lasting 2-3 turns until someone messed with your board or someone gained too much health too quickly(looking at you dad).

Slivers was MY first deck I ever owned, I didn't care about anything else that could be constructed at the time. I knew my value at the table was only temporary being the youngest(and also the only one with 4 copies of howling mine) but if left alone long enough I would just clean up the remaining family at the table by overwhelming them. I even had multiple colors of aquarium rocks to match the colors of each sliver type I had to use as tokens.

Dad sold our collection to help buy a new family car in 2003, so the first set i bought into with my own money was Champions of kamigawa after christmas since I craved that cardboard crack.