Sorry if someone already mentioned this, but I haven't finished reading the thread yet.

I think it would be better to have two quantity fields; one for maindeck and a second for sideboard.


I might be able to whip something up in perl for parsing morphling.de; it seems a lot better suited to this sort of task than any of the other languages mentioned and the DBI module means I can use the same database code for just about any database backend. I'm very pressed for time lately, so I can't make a commitment right now, but I want to see this project work

If you're running a vault you really should consider running a voltaic key. I hear infinite turns are pretty good.

This really doesn't make sense to me. If you Duress them and see FoW and Necro, why is "nothing useful" in their graveyard? What do you take over one of those cards that isn't useful in the graveyard?

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Here's mine:

TPS Player: Turn 1 swamp, pass, turn 2 USea, pass. End of your turn cast Dark Ritual + FoF, protecting it at some point in the previous two turns with force (removing rebuild).
FoF resolves, revealing Ancestrall, DSC, Delta, Brainstorm, Necro. TPS has 3 cards in hand. How do you split this pile? Does it change your split if the DSC was Inkwell?

Now from the viewpoint of the TPS player: Using your previously defined split, which set do you take and why? Your hand is Lotus Petal, Cabal Ritual, Mire.

While it might be nice to have a backup against 3x extract effects, I can't imagine what you would cut for this card. As a beater, it's pretty bad, and the additional ability is nowhere near gamebreaking to justify playing it.

I overheard someone talking about possibly sideboarding it for the mirror match

As I said, my testing so far is limited, so take this with a grain of salt, but so far I've had DSC stuck uselessly in my hand several times, where I really needed a blue card to pitch. I've also had the tinker->man play cut off by opposing welders. I have not *so far* had a situation where the extra turn from inkwell would have cost the game, to my knowledge. I originally ran DSC because as you say, it's faster, but storming out is the primary plan, and inkwell helps more with that. It's a tradeoff between having better protection or having a faster win, and I prefer to be better protected.

That being said, I think this is probably meta-dependant and is also influenced by playstyle.

Sorry if this is a bit rude, but I really don't see how this is useful. Street Wraith was decent because it is zero mana to cycle. I'm going to estimate that the majority of the time that you draw this, it will read "U - Draw a card", or will get thrown to a pitch counter. I can't really see Reach Through Mists being played in Vintage.

Returning for a moment to the tinker target discussion, I have to add that all of my (admittedly limited) testing shows Inkwell to be better than DSC right now. Pitching to force is huge, and shroud would have also been relevent.

You're quite right. Total brain fart on my part. Playing tendrils gives me strange ideas about some cards

You control the Chain and so you would have to sacrifice your own lands to do this.

Hi all!

I'm new around here, though I've been lurking on and off for a few years. I started playing Magic around 2000, but I've been mostly a casual player. I've dabbled in some tournament play around Onslaught, and done a few drafts here and there, but I mostly play online. I'm in the Boston area, so hopefully I will be able to start showing up at the Pandemonium games each week

--Eaglewolf