This may help you:
http://www.bdominia.addr.com/discus/messages/9/12949.shtml
It contains a history of all major mono green creature decks in Magic. Jamie Wakefield's is very notable.
Here's the most (but not the only) relevant part that answers your query:
"This shift to larger creatures was actually made popular by Jamie Wakefield and his ¡§Secret Force¡¨ developed when Tempest was released. It centered around Natural Order and Verdant Force, ¡§the best fattie ever printed,¡¨ with the original deck sporting Lure of Prey or Jamie¡¦s ¡§green Dark Ritual¡¨
What is Secret Force? Jamie described, ¡§This is a green deck that has the cards to handle all the major threats out there ¡V and apply tremendous beatdown. All in one deck. I hope you like it.¡¨
The deck was introduced on the Dojo with no great fanfare. In fact, in his June 1998 report about a visit to Shawn ¡§Hammer¡¨ Regnier¡¦s card shop, he recalled, ¡§¡¥MONO GREEN!!!¡¦ Rodney shouts into the phone. ¡¥You tell me we should make a good impression and you¡¦re going with mono Green?¡¦¡¨
The response to the curious deck was unexpected. In Jamie¡¦s words, ¡§I have received over 50 emails so far ¡V and the message is less than 8 hours old. Some people don¡¦t even have the message on their news server yet!
¡§I have a Pro Tour Player on the list who has had phenomenal success on the Pro Tour, and I also have people who want to play it in their Nationals! That¡¦s the best! I would be thrilled if someone I am mailing to today actually found this worthy to take to their Nationals. I have about 30 people who swear my deck will never see the inside of a card shop because they only play for fun. And I have a lot of people that say they will play it this Saturday in the local Type Two.¡¨
Jamie certainly expected nothing from the deck, and merely wrote, ¡§Lets hope this Beast lives up to the hype. Anyone got a good name? So far ¡V I call this ¡¥Living Death in Mono Green.¡¦¡¨
NATURAL ORDER
Cost: 2GG
Rarity: Rare
Type: Sorcery
Set: Visions
Errata: As an additional cost to play ~this~, sacrifice a green creature. ; Search your library for a green creature card and put that card into play. Then shuffle your library. [Oracle 99/07/01]
Flavor Text: ...but the price of Mangara's freedom was Asmira's life.
Rulings: The sacrifice of a green creature is part of the play cost and is paid on announcement. You do not have a choice to pay this cost zero times or more than one time in order to multiply the effect. [D'Angelo 97/01/28]
Artist: Terese Nielsen
Released: 2/1997
LURE OF PREY
Cost: 2GG
Rarity: Rare
Type: Instant
Set: Mirage
Errata: Play ~this~ only if an opponent played a creature spell this turn. ; Put a green creature card from your hand into play. [Oracle 00/10/24]
Rulings: Does work for artifact creatures played by your opponent. [D'Angelo 99/07/10]
Artist: Andrew Robinson
Released: 10/1996
ORIGINAL SECRET FORCE DECK, JAMIE WAKEFIELD, JUNE 15 1998
Creatures (24)
3 Quirion Ranger
4 Llanowar Elf
3 River Boa
4 Uktabi Orangutan
4 Spike Feeder
2 Barishi
4 Verdant Force
Others (10)
4 Natural Order
2 Lure of Prey
4 Creeping Mold
Land (26)
4 Wasteland
4 Quicksand
18 Forest
Sideboard
3 Lifeforce
3 Roots of Life
4 Wall of Roots
4 Natural Spring
(1 unlisted card)
This was the original deck, complete with the Wakefield quirk of 62 cards, 26 land and no mana curve to speak of. Through the internet, it quickly endeared itself to players who shared Jamie¡¦s love for fat, and Natural Order and Lure of Prey made for interesting cards. As Jamie said, ¡§With Lure of Prey and Natural Order, its good to draw something fat ¡V and its good to not draw it. No longer do you have to worry about ¡V Damn I drew my Verdant Force ¡V now I have to hope I get eight mana to cast him. No. If you don¡¦t draw it ¡V go get it ¡V if you do draw it ¡V lure it out.¡¨
He elaborated on Natural Order as a rare green trick: ¡§Lure of Prey ¡V the forgotten green power card. This thing is so good it is unreal. If you read the text carefully ¡V it doesn¡¦t say you have to play this card when they cast a summon spell. It says ¡V on any TURN they play a summon spell ¡V which means that your Verdant Force and Giants are now a Benalish knight!!!
¡§The smart player responds like this ¡V ¡¥Cast a pup?¡¦
¡§You ¡V ¡¥o.k.¡¦ ¡V do nothing ¡V you have until as late as his discard phase to actually cast Lure of Prey.
¡§Same turn ¡V
¡§¡¥Cast a Lancer, Vroom! Here he comes green boy!¡¦
¡§¡¦Lure of Prey ¡V block with my GIANT ! ¡V HO HO HO! Midgets! You think you can stand in my way?¡¦¡¨
Like a kid holding a Shivan Dragon, he added, ¡§Try to apply as much early pressure as possible if holding a Lure of Prey and something fat. When you get to four land ¡V do not play anything else out if they are playing a creature deck. They will have to play a creature eventually to either block, or to try and kill you. Then you Lure of Prey.¡¨
Secret Force and Stupid Green Deck showed how green could take on a slower, controlling personality that could hold its own (as long as combo decks are not a factor, since green has practically no defense against them except speed, which the control green decks forego). Rob Kinyon, who helped playtest the original Stupid Green Deck, commented on the Dojo, ¡§You have to understand one thing - THIS IS A GREEN CONTROL DECK.¡¨ He elaborated, ¡§This is Cuneo Green, not Stompy. If you win before turn 10, it's a miracle. Winning on turn 15-18 is normal. Remember, establish your Weaver lock, then kill them with the Wildebeest or Scroll. It's not a race.¡¨ Secret Force combined creatures that served as both excellent offense and defense with the best of a small but effective pool of removal such as Uktabi Orangutan and Creeping Mold.
In Jamie¡¦s words, ¡§Have you ever noticed that when you build a utility green deck ¡V that you can handle everything the opponent throws at you, but you still lose because you don¡¦t have any disruption, or any room left for fat creatures? Green¡¦s best fat creatures are its really, really fat creatures.
¡§Like Verdant Force.
¡§I¡¦ve finally been able to make a green deck that feels that it is ready for everything.
¡§And ¡V
¡§And ¡V has the capability to get two Verdant Forces on the board by the fourth turn. Which has happened twice (maybe three times? Not sure.) in sanctioned play so far.¡¨
Stupid Green Deck had the Stampeding Wildebeests engine (which, in addition to the green utility creatures, allowed Wall of Blossoms to repeatedly serve as card drawing) instead of the Natural Order engine, but shared the same control elements.
Both, incidentally, were quite lethal against red and it¡¦s direct, single-minded strategy. Jamie noted: ¡§The best move this deck has ever done ¡V Playing Sligh.
¡§Wild growth on a Forest from first turn, have just played my third land ¡V he plays a (Suq¡¦Ata) Lancer, I say o.k. He attacks with Lancer and Fanatic. I cast Lure of Prey, Verdant force ¡V block the Lancer. Untap all my stuff cause he¡¦s done, get a token, sac the token for Natural Order, Verdant Force ¡V two by the fourth turn. Against Sligh.¡¨"
