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1  Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / Re: MagicCardMarket Series - Prague - October 16, 2015 on: November 08, 2015, 10:38:08 pm
Missing from results page as well but Marcel MUD list is missing two Hangarback Walkers. http://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=10765&d=261583&f=VI
2  Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / Re: Painting the Town Blue: MSPaint 2015 on: November 08, 2015, 07:36:59 pm
As I was reading the first list I thought of SCM or JVP as options to recast blasts. I see JVP found its way in! I had built a "cute" deck of 8 blasts painter distorting lens and iso scepter that I took to your territory at the old Mr Nice Guy games years ago. Went 3-3 but had fun playing it.

In your 100 man did you run into a lot of Null/Stony? I expect them to increase in the post COTV meta. It has  not in mine yet though.
3  Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / Re: Team Serious Open Results - Columbus, OH 8/15 on: September 15, 2015, 10:58:24 pm
I thought you meant being held until after Eternal Weekend 2016. Cant unlock this time released document capsule any sooner, doh!

It was highly based off Randy Buhlers list, I snuck Vamp Tutor in there because I liked it, 1 or 2 other card changes and a meta game SB
4  Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / Re: Team Serious Open Results - Columbus, OH 8/15 on: August 17, 2015, 01:26:22 pm
I wonder how many of us couldnt guess those four lists within five to ten cards anyways just knowing the names.

Most Vintage decks are 5 to 10 cards different. You could say that about 80-90% of vintage decks.

The top 2 decks are probably different then what most would expect. : D
5  Eternal Formats / Midwest U.S. / Re: Team Serious Open - Norwalk, OH (NW) - May 9 on: April 13, 2015, 10:41:24 pm
Glad to see the rockets are flying in from Toledo!

6  Eternal Formats / Midwest U.S. / Re: Columbus, OH - Legacy/Vintage Split Tourney - May 31 on: May 30, 2014, 09:17:24 pm
7  Eternal Formats / Midwest U.S. / Re: Columbus, OH - Legacy/Vintage Split Tourney - May 31 on: April 15, 2014, 04:40:25 pm
Legacy Vintage SPLIT Tournament?? Lets do this!!!

8  Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / Re: Team Serious Open Results - Sandusky - December 15 on: December 20, 2013, 10:15:03 pm
Oh man.  You mis-played my deck title!  It was NObLE FISH.  I didn't miss a caps, it was meant to highlight bant with a splash of black.  Sad What I get for trying to be fancy!

The sets of Rock Lobster, Paper Tiger, and Scissors Lizard were awesome btw.  Definitely need to replenish that stock.  I'll find some things to add to the pool as well.

lol, My favorite still is the Monoblue deck with a splash for Kataki... aka Blukaki 

Blukake with Kataki. It may happen!
9  Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / Re: Team Serious Open Results - Sandusky - December 15 on: December 18, 2013, 10:17:09 am
Oh man.  You mis-played my deck title!  It was NObLE FISH.  I didn't miss a caps, it was meant to highlight bant with a splash of black.  Sad What I get for trying to be fancy!

The sets of Rock Lobster, Paper Tiger, and Scissors Lizard were awesome btw.  Definitely need to replenish that stock.  I'll find some things to add to the pool as well.
10  Eternal Formats / Null Rod Based Aggro / Re: Noble Fish: GUW variants here! on: December 18, 2013, 10:13:31 am
Inspired by Demars, I've been playing this lately. It's a blast to play and incredible consistent. Turns out Edric and True-Name Nemesis really like each other.

3 Tropical Island
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Flooded Strand
2 Tundra
2 Windswept Heath
1 Forest
1 Plains
1 Island

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl

4 Noble Hierarch
2 Trygon Predator
2 Qasali Pridemage
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 True-Name Nemesis
2 Scavenging Ooze
1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest

4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
3 Swords to Plowshares
2 Spell Snare
2 Mana Drain
2 Misdirection
2 Flusterstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk

3 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Rest in Peace
2 Nature's Claim
2 Umezawa's Jitte
2 Energy Flux
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 True-Name Nemesis
1 Tormod's Crypt

I like the list here Stanley! I'm going to sleeve this up and do some testing this week.

I like the idea of running an Edric with TNN and TP.

Would Green Sun's Zenith find a place in here? With your "tool box of creatures" and access to drain it might be a nice addition.  Maybe cut one ooze?

I don't think you need that solo plains. You have fetches and noble hierarch and never need double white and doesn't cast hierarch. Don't worry about wasteland for white either. You'll have plenty. It's better off as a Tundra or even Savannah.

I played SCM in my fish list at Eternal Weekend and two was the perfect amount.  You also have a nice list of spells to recur. I also ran two MD in my list for Abrupt Decays and it was awesome when that interaction occurred!

I tried playing two JTMS in my fish before and he just felt clunky, as weird as that is to say about one of the best cards of all time.  I did not have mana drain, so that may change things.

I think you'll miss not having waste/strip effects and stony in your fish list.  It just wins games sometimes by locking out people keeping low mana hands and making those top deck artifact mana sources time walks.



11  Eternal Formats / Null Rod Based Aggro / Re: Noble Fish: GUW variants here! on: December 16, 2013, 10:32:59 am
Stony Silence was boss all day. 

Equipping true name is insane, especially with Jitte.

12  Eternal Formats / Null Rod Based Aggro / Noble Fish: GUW variants here! on: December 15, 2013, 10:58:43 pm
Thanks for the list Mike!! I had built an Esper Aggro-Control deck for the upcoming tournament, but didnt feel 100%, so I went looking for other ideas and fell into your list.  I tend to always go back to noble fish right before a tournament. I took what you had and changed it to my meta/play style.  I ended up Top 4, splitting a 14 man tourney and only lost 1 game all day.  Here's the list I showed up with today at the TSO in Sandusky, OH. I had originally gone for a 3/3 split on NH and DS but shifted it to 4/2 in favor of DS.  I had multiple DS out a few times and really wanted double black to abuse that activation but couldn't. 3/3 might be the better split.

4 Deathrite Shaman
2 Noble Hierarch
4 Qasali Pridemage
2 Vendilion Clique
3 Tarmogoyf
1 True-Name Nemesis
2 Trygon Predator

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire

1 Abrupt Decay
1 Flusterstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
3 Daze
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
2 Swords to Plowshares

1 Time Walk

3 Stony Silence

3 Flooded Strand
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Savannah
1 Strip Mine
3 Tropical Island
2 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
3 Wasteland

SB: 4 Grafdigger's Cage
SB: 1 Yixlid Jailer
SB: 2 Ravenous Trap
SB: 2 Trygon Predator
SB: 1 Swords to Plowshares
SB: 2 Flusterstorm
SB: 2 Kataki, War's Wage
SB: 1 Steel Sabotage
13  Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: Help europeans get vintage! on: June 12, 2013, 05:36:42 pm
Voted!
14  Eternal Formats / Midwest U.S. / Re: Team Serious Open - Sandusky - June 22 on: May 31, 2013, 07:09:24 pm
Oh man, just came to check the date on this.  I think my tourney presence is being ousted by a facebook group organizing a "play date" for the kids.  Wife just cast misdirection on my plans!
15  Eternal Formats / Midwest U.S. / Re: Team Serious Open - Sandusky - June 22 on: May 28, 2013, 02:38:47 pm
I heard there was a meandecker attending this event. I infiltrated their dojo only to find they were working on new member names.  This chart was all I was able to retrieve before being spotted.

16  Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / Re: Team Serious Open Results - Columbus - May 26 on: May 28, 2013, 12:16:39 pm
What card in the history of Magic has drawn players the most cards?
-Brainstorm.
What card in the history of Magic has dealt the most damage?
-When I first read this I thought about damage to player, but if you count damage to creatures and planeswalkers as well it's Lightning Bolt.
What creature in the history of Magic has dealt the most damage?
- Dark Confidant damage to its owner and attacking damage.
What Vintage card do you see get misplayed most often?
-Gifts Ungiven, I misplay it way too often.
What Vintage card do you hate but you play anyway out of obligation because it's too good?
-Island.
What's your favorite Magic card?
- Collectable-wise: Steamflogger Boss, Playable: Isochron Scepeter, Fun times: Krak's Thumb
What's your favorite Vintage card?
- Daze. It's underplayed and blows people out because they forget about it.
17  Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: Contacting MTG stores, help needed. on: December 03, 2012, 09:24:12 pm
It would be more helpful to know for what purpose this info is needed.
18  Eternal Formats / Creative / Re: Nether Void Aggro on: October 09, 2012, 09:10:05 pm
Played this on Cockatrice.  Very inconsistent.  Very rarely did I have a good opening hand.  Mana flooded frequently.

Fun idea, but I have to file it under "cute" in the Rolodex.  Cute decks are fun, but sexy wins.
19  Eternal Formats / Creative / Re: Nether Void Aggro on: October 08, 2012, 10:29:00 pm
What about Knight of the Reliquary over Smiter? Human, can get bigger than Smiter quickly, and can search a timely strip/waste or Urami. What does Vault do in this list. I honestly have no idea, lol.

Also fourth Caverns is a must. Putting all those resources into gettin a void out and then countered is a blowout. I feel like the deck needs another sphere effect to protect casting Nether, like Thorn.

Interesting idea overall.
20  Eternal Formats / Midwest U.S. / Re: Team Serious Open - Columbus - October 21 on: October 08, 2012, 09:46:30 pm
Oh Snap Suckas! We just got word that C-Town's own resident playa and VIP room aficionado Gilberto "Gee" Rivera will be in attendance. He's also braggin about showing up in his new whip.



 Celebrity status, Yes tha VIP aficionado.
Tha i make em run like tha 5-0
Macho man Off tha top rope wit a flyin elbow
Dredgin all tha way to tha top table
Transformational sideboard like a yellow camaro.  

Just Workshops all brown turn ones,
Gamers spit'in 1 on 1 but ain't no fair ones,
You feel me Gee? I do my dogg! so let's MTG go to war.
Number 1 deck TMD... SCG so sucka free.
You live your life through these tournies you a GG,
Jerry Yang mess wit me, squigly eyes an Id's.
Snoop Trog told me murder these Mages.
I'm guna pop'em like Jeter in 100mph batting cages.

It feels good to play vintage again, especially while freestylin.

I feel ya playa.


Its time for free stylin playa
Twos bad u were rappin' while the chop was m-i-aya
Time for Twaun to rep the fish
Take that wish
Make it true
Rep the serious green, white and blue
1000% fate
Time to top 8
Leave the haters faulted
Fishes so shiny they are FTV exalted
Sillysam may be TSO 2 and 0
Not after Twaun lays down some serious flow
Twaunzilla
Scaring Mean Deck out of state, fear of the vintage killa
1 yr hustla
Remove the inhibitor
Time to exhibita
Twaun008
Coming to a match loss near you
Save the date


OCTOBER 21st! Be there...    Because I can't!

21  Eternal Formats / Midwest U.S. / Re: Team Serious Open - September 22 - Sandusky, Ohio on: September 17, 2012, 12:25:48 pm
Hey everyone, I have an idea. I think we should get together next weekend and play some Vintage, maybe eat some food before and after. What do you think?



You got your priorities mixed up.  I think we should go eat two really good meals.  If there is time in between we should try and squeeze in a Vintage tournament.

22  Eternal Formats / Midwest U.S. / Re: Team Serious Open - September 22 - Sandusky, Ohio on: September 03, 2012, 08:03:36 pm
Yangtime hit me up on the twitter and said he's in pure training mode for this thing.




Twaun watching that video for weaknesses

You're going to need more than a noisy cricket to fade me.



Stealth video from the Mean Deck archives of Twaun training to play against Fish.  As usual it's not going very well...



I'm going to put a stop to all your shenanigans.



I can vouch with experience that this is exactly how T performs against fish


Mashing decks together in the Team Serious bunker.

I just got done hanging out with Jerry "McBubbles" Yang and he's intoxicated with sheer happiness knowing he'll be attending the TSO!



Peep the new Team Serious T-rex jersey he's sporting. Pure badassery.   
Someone smuggled out some video of the Meandeck training regimen...


Kevin Cron does know how to walk like a mean Egyptian.

Even Doug Linn's been getting pumped up for this.





Doug is getting buff! So Many Insane High-Fives! Better get the hate bear training ramped up!



Twaun complained all GenCon about how he hasn't made a T8 in more than a year. I say let's keep the streak alive.



I have secretly followed Twaun around the states these last few weeks.  He is traveling undeground from dojo to dojo sharpening his skills.  This is all the footage I have left of his last underground tournament Top 8 before I blacked out and woke up in a strange motel surrounded by dead fish.

23  Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: GenCon 2012 on: August 17, 2012, 10:13:09 pm
Nice run Blaine!
24  Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: GenCon 2012 on: August 17, 2012, 05:28:02 pm
Mark Trogdon 6-1

Jerry Yang 5-2

Soly 5-2

Jimmy McCarthy still in round 7.
25  Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: GenCon 2012 on: August 17, 2012, 05:09:41 pm
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/gencon12/welcome
26  Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: GenCon 2012 on: August 17, 2012, 05:02:32 pm
They streamed Top 8 last year.  None this year??
27  Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: GenCon 2012 on: August 17, 2012, 04:48:30 pm
I scrubbed out hard 0-3.  I was playing well, felt like I had a good deck (Rich's Oath), but just got seriously outdrawn. As I've been saying, Vintage things happened to me.

What did you lose to?

Everything is ok again.  I finally convinced the head judge to change my score to the right score.  I'm 6-0, hopefully headed to the top 8.

Hot damn, good job, and good luck.

This just in from the Team Serious hotline:

Soly 5-1

Jerry Yang 5-1

Jimmy McCarthy 5-1

Mark Trogdon 5-1

I love you guys.

Team Serious loves you too!

28  Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: GenCon 2012 on: August 17, 2012, 04:41:22 pm
This just in from the Team Serious hotline:

Soly 5-1

Jerry Yang 5-1

Jimmy McCarthy 5-1

Mark Trogdon 5-1

Charles ? lost and is out
29  Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: GenCon 2012 on: August 17, 2012, 03:31:32 pm
Mark Trogdon 4-1

Jerry Yang 4-1

Charles (Dont know your last name, Ohio guy) 4-1
30  Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: GenCon 2012 on: August 17, 2012, 12:48:09 pm
Mark Trogdon is 3-0

Jerry Yang 1-1
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