"Reflecting Pool doesn't care about any restrictions or riders your lands put on the mana they produce, such as Pillar of the Paruns and Hall of the Bandit Lord do. It just cares about types of mana."

Pillar of the Paruns has basically the same wording/format as Cavern, so it looks like the interaction works how you think it does.

In regard to Vintage cards with activation costs that require mana, Belcher costs 3! Although as Kevin put it, it's (hopefully, at least for the Belcher player) typically in the "one-shot use" category.

Why do you say this? Just because it's a Wrath effect? Or is there some more meaningful reason im missing

Missing 7 of 9 pieces of power, 2 Underground Seas, and a LoA. Other than that, I have everything I need for a full 75

For those looking for the streamed replay, it's located on Brassman's channel:

http://www.twitch.tv/tmdbrassman/v/30779036

Can you? It looks like the oracle text says counter it unless they pay 3, which to me sounds different than "add 3 mana to the CMC of the card when casting it". So for example, you'd be paying 2 colorless for Phyrexian Revoker and 3 for Nether Void, rather than 5 mana for the Revoker. It looks more similar to the wording on Spell Pierce than a sphere effect

I'm planning on attending, I've been in the area for about 6 months and never bothered to check if there were any local events. A friend went to the store today and told me he saw an ad for Vintage, so here I am.

What kind of attendance are you expecting?

Link isn't working for me, says "502 Bad Gateway" error

edit: Now its fine!

Is there no commentary for rounds 2 and 3, or is my Youtube just busted?

Lot of very interesting decks this trimester (and two Tendrils!!!). I enjoyed the stream a lot last night, definitely looking forward to more games

Mind explaining this? Can't seem to figure out if that's just a typo or not...

Very enjoyable read, the Workshop banter was amusing as always. Congratulations on the finish, looks like Dromoka was quite benevolent this past weekend!!

This seems extremely mild and tame for Twitch chat...

Can you explain this? I'm looking at the rulings for Mindslaver and cant see why you wouldnt be able to do that. If a player can Bolt their own permanent out of their own volition, why cant I do it to them if i use Mindslaver?

:: hmm, it seems that only opponents can redirect the damage to planeswalkers. interesting

What advantage does this have over just constructing key vault?

I see a Chaos Orb and Demonic Attorney in the picture of "Jaume Bonet (Grisel Oath) wins vs. Carles Miñón (UW Specter Blade)", whats the deal with those?

Hoping to make it to this one, had a great time at the December one!

Can you explain the reasoning for boarding out Yawgmoth's in round 2 against Martello, but keeping it for round 4 in place of Gush?

Any idea if there will be any official replays of the tournament, or if any big name players plan on releasing anything from their perspectives?

Thanks for the ruling. I would certainly be fine with providing my opponent with the number if he asked, but I was pretty sure I didnt have to provide and increment a public number each time a spell was played during a turn

I was kinda hesitant to continue watching too but it was pretty good after that moment

Sweet, this is exactly what i was looking for. thanks for the links!

Outside of LSV's videos, the only videos for Vintage i've seen are either silent/outsider spectated tournament games, or the Vintage Super League. Would love to see the thought processes explained throughout the game from the player's perspective

Hello,

I just played a game online on Cockatrice using a Tendrils build, and came across a thorny situation.

Opponent is at 16, I generate 6 storm, Demonic Tutor for Tendrils, and cast it for lethal damage. My opponent says I hadn't been counting storm, and i immediately copy+pasted the list of spells I had played that turn to show it was indeed 8 spells. He stated that had I been counting the storm using one of the mana bubbles or something, he would have played differently (Deathrite Shaman'ing a Demonic Tutor instead of Ancestral Recall, since he had a Mental Misstep in hand). I asked if it was protocol for online/paper tournaments to keep track of the storm count for your opponent like that, and he said yes.

I thought this was strange, because if I only began visibly keeping track of the storm count during the turn i was going off, that'd be fairly obvious what I was going to do and he could act accordingly. In order to prevent that, i'd have to count storm for every single turn, including those where I only play one spell, which would be quite tedious and just seems unnatural i think. That combined with the fact that i've never ever seen anyone (even MTGO goesnt have a visible storm counter from what ive seen) count storm on a turn where they weren't considering going all-in leads me to believe it's not my job to provide the storm count throughout the turn for my opponent.

Anyone have any insight on this scenario?

Not a single oath? Thats pretty surprising, isnt it?

I'm planning on attending, this will be my first real life vintage event. hype!

I feel like i must be missing something major, why do you run Oath with no creatures?

http://www.twitch.tv/cardtitan/b/582268983?t=37m01s

Quick question about the play: Joel plays Cursecatcher, Ryan plays Mental Misstep and responds with Mental Misstep to generate 2 pyro tokens, but it looks like he targets his own Misstep instead of sending both Missteps at the Cursecatcher. Am i missing something or does that play just not make sense?

I guess i should have worded my question better, but you answered it perfectly. Was just looking for some different scenarios so i could analyze the thought process for choosing which card to target. Thanks for the info!

Hello all, just had a couple of questions regarding literally playing Vintage in person, and a tactical question about counterspells. Not sure if this is the correct place, but it seemed to be the most accurate place based on the descriptions.


I've only ever played Vintage online on Magic Workstation. How does it work when you play in a tournament setting with regards to switching phases? Do you have to announce upkeep, draw, main, attack, end every single turn? Is there any shortcuts? When i play on MWS, you just go to the phase you want, and if the other person wants to play something before switching phases they'll just say "Wait!". i remember watching a video of a Vintage match, BUG vs workshops. The shops player had an active Tanglewire in play, and the Bug player untaps and says "draw?" without tapping for Tangle and the shops player says okay. The BUG player draws and then the shops player realizes he didnt tap for Tangle, but apparently the new rules its on the player who owns the trigger to announce them, and he received a warning for not maintaining proper gamestate, or something along those lines. So is it standard to announce every single phase for every single turn, or did he just do that to avoid tapping to the wire?

Another unrelated question: When youre in a large counter war, is there any reason to target the original spell instead of one of their counters? For instance:

Player 1: Ancestral Recall
Player 2: Mental Misstep targeting Recall
Player 1: Counterspell targeting Mental Misstep
Player 2: Mana drain

Is there any tactical advantage (in general) to choosing to Mana Drain the Recall over the Counterspell, or vice versa? I think i tend to counter the original spell when im playing but ive thought about it a lot and im not sure if its the correct play.

Thanks for your time!