If the following headings look familiar, it's because I've mentioned them twice now in two separate articles, most notably in my contentious Time Spiral Block deck-building guide. If we look at top performers in the sub-season of UPDC Block, though, we'll see how neatly they fall into the "themes" or "lines" of the block.
Slivers
SLIVER ZOO
Dragonmage65, UPDC 1.06, 1st Place
6 Forest
7 Mountain
6 Plains
4 Terramorphic Expanse
2 Battering Sliver
4 Bonesplitter Sliver
3 Gemhide Sliver
4 Homing Sliver
3 Reflex Sliver
4 Sidewinder Sliver
4 Sinew Sliver
3 Spinneret Sliver
4 Watcher Sliver
4 Ghostfire
2 Search for Tomorrow
Sideboard
2 Essence Warden
3 Fortify
3 Rift Bolt
4 Subterranean Shambler
3 Virulent Sliver
R/W SLIVERS
White_djinn, UPDC 1.07, 1st Place
2 Mana Tithe
4 Amrou Scout
4 Aven Riftwatcher
4 Bonesplitter Sliver
4 Homing Sliver
4 Rift Bolt
4 Sidewinder Sliver
4 Sinew Sliver
4 Two-Headed Sliver
4 Watcher Sliver
4 Terramorphic Expanse
9 Mountain
9 Plains
Sideboard
4 Cloudchaser Kestrel
4 Fortify
3 Fury Charm
4 Zealot il-Vec
Rebels
REBELS!
uktabi_shinobi, UPDC 1.05, 2nd Place
7 Plains
6 Island
6 Swamp
3 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Amrou Scout
4 Aven Riftwatcher
4 Blightspeaker
3 Rathi Trapper
2 Amrou Seekers
2 Zealot il-Vec
2 Whitemane Lion
3 Logic Knot
3 Mystical Teachings
3 Think Twice
3 Momentary Blink
2 Tendrils of Corruption
2 Snapback
1 Piracy Charm
Sideboard
2 Dawn Charm
4 Death Rattle
3 Mindstab
3 Piracy Charm
3 Sunlance
Thallids
FUNGAL TEACHINGS
Mr Slippery 39, UPDC 1.15, 1st Place
4 Terramorphic Expanse
10 Forest
6 Swamp
2 Island
1 Mountain
4 Essence Warden
3 Chromatic Star
4 Deathspore Thallid
1 Evolution Charm
4 Sprout Swarm
4 Thallid Shell-Dweller
4 Search for Tomorrow
2 Strangling Soot
2 Foresee
3 Mystical Teachings
3 Sporoloth Ancient
3 Death Rattle
Sideboard
2 Ichor Slick
3 Mindstab
1 Strangling Soot
1 Evolution Charm
3 Midnight Charm
3 Penumbra Spider
2 Thallid Germinator
SAP SPIKE
subliminal man2, UPDC 1.17, 1st Place
10 Forest
7 Plains
1 Swamp
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Essence Warden
4 Thallid Shell-Dweller
4 Deathspore Thallid
4 Pallid Mycoderm
4 Sporoloth Ancient
4 Sprout Swarm
4 Search for Tomorrow
2 Evolution Charm
4 Mana Tithe
2 Marshaling Cry
2 Temporal Isolation
Sideboard
4 Lumithread Field
3 Penumbra Spider
3 Sunlance
2 Dawn Charm
2 Midnight Charm
1 Temporal Isolation
W/x Blink
MONO-WHITE BLINK
Cecilia Jupe, UPDC 1.16, 1st Place
2 Island
14 Plains
4 Amrou Scout
4 Aven Riftwatcher
4 Blade of the Sixth Pride
3 Fortify
4 Ivory Giant
4 Knight of Sursi
4 Momentary Blink
4 Shade of Trokair
4 Temporal Isolation
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Whitemane Lion
1 Zealot il-Vec
Sideboard
3 Cloudchaser Kestrel
3 Dawn Charm
3 Sidewinder Sliver
4 Sunlance
2 Zealot il-Vec
Shambler Control
LIKE EATING GLASS
eegag, UPDC 1.14, Top 8
11 Island
6 Mountain
3 Plains
4 Terramorphic Expanse
3 Fathom Seer
2 Dream Stalker
4 Errant Ephemeron
4 Subterranean Shambler
4 Cancel
4 Logic Knot
3 Rift Bolt
3 Dead/Gone
4 Think Twice
2 Foresee
3 Momentary Blink
Sideboard
4 Vedalken Aethermage
2 Stingscourger
4 Mogg War Marshal
1 Dead/Gone
1 Rift Bolt
2 Dream Stalker
1 Fathom Seer
U/x Aggro-Control
OLD BLUE EYES
hokusai22, UPDC 1.16, Top 4
19 Island
4 Cancel
2 Crookclaw Transmuter
4 Errant Ephemeron
4 Fathom Seer
3 Infiltrator il-Kor
4 Logic Knot
3 Piracy Charm
3 Snapback
4 Spiketail Drakeling
4 Terramorphic Expanse
2 Think Twice
4 Viscerid Deepwalker
Sideboard
2 Crookclaw Transmuter
4 Looter il-Kor
1 Piracy Charm
3 Shaper Parasite
1 Snapback
1 Think Twice
3 Vedalken AEthermage
(Removal-Heavy) Madness
KILL 'EM ALL
53N531, UPDC 1.13
10 Swamp
9 Mountain
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Keldon Halberdier
4 Trespasser il-Vec
4 Gorgon Recluse
4 Lightning Axe
4 Dark Banishing
4 Tendrils of Corruption
4 Strangling Soot
4 Dead
2 Assassinate
3 Psychotic Episode
1 Prismatic Lens
Sideboard
4 Rift Elemental
4 Corpulent Corpse
4 Mindlash Sliver
3 Riddle of Lightning
LOOTER MADNESS
Carinon, UPDC 1.13, 2nd Place
4 Dreamscape Artist
4 Errant Ephemeron
4 Looter il-Kor
4 Dark Withering
4 Gorgon Recluse
4 Psychotic Episode
4 Strangling Soot
4 Tendrils of Corruption
4 Trespasser il-Vec
8 Island
1 Mountain
12 Swamp
2 Terramorphic Expanse
2 Chromatic Star
Sideboard
2 Mystical Teachings
4 Piracy Charm
3 Vedalken Aethermage
2 Ichor Slick
4 Mindlash Sliver
Teachings Control
Goblinstorm
JUNGLE STORM
Kingritz, UPDC 1.13, 1st Place
3 Rift Elemental
4 Grinning Ignus
2 Coal Stoker
4 Nantuko Shaman
4 Keldon Halberdier
4 Durkwood Baloth
4 Rift Bolt
4 Search for Tomorrow
2 Edge of Autumn
4 Empty the Warrens
4 Grapeshot
9 Forest
9 Mountain
3 Terramorphic Expanse
Sideboard
4 Dead/Gone
3 Penumbra Spider
4 Spinneret Sliver
2 Sprout Swarm
2 Subterranean Shambler
