I'm trying to keep a somewhat high-powered stack, but I really enjoy the political nature of Covenant of Minds. If one person is taking over the board, it lets you and another opponent team up to dig for answers.

I'm thinking of adding Interdict and errata-ing it to have split second. This makes it actually nerf abilities, and adds a way for players to team up or combo to get rid of a mistmeadow witch.

It's really hard to discuss rules for casual vintage in the general case because it's EXTREMELY metagamey, and depends on the budget of the players involved.

For example, back when I was 11, it was viable for me to build a janky deck out of commons and beat the kids who had money for new preconstructed decks (at that point in my life, the Urza block precons were sort of a benchmark that separated the good players from the rest). Since nobody really had the budget or the card pool to run four copies of rares, we ended up with a sort of semi-limited yet constructed environment. Anything was allowed, but power levels were naturally in check.

Ten years later (and after a long break from the game), the players that I know all play competitive constructed, and could likely hose anything I could put together from my old collection with their second or third best standard deck. So now I only play limited, and a bit of casual constrcuted with other non-serious players using my own collection as the card pool.

Basically, the rules that make casual vintage fair are the rules that give every player a relatively equal ability to win games. I have a tendency to lose more than I should under these rules, but that's because I prefer playing lots of weird decks to tuning up a really brutal deck. I also quickly retire decks that win too often, since they're not interesting to play with.

Previews today mentioned a card that makes 6 kor soldier tokens, 12 if kicked. Sounds like an auto-include to me.

I think it would be less fun without rolling. I mean, if there's no rolling, where's the gamblin'?

Has nobody seen this yet?

Terra Stomper
   3ggg
Creature - Beast    Rare
Terra Stomper can't be countered.
Trample
Sometimes violent earthquakes, hurtling boulders, and unseasonable dust storms are wrongly attributed to the Roil.
Illus. Goran Josic #187/249   8/8

Sadly, this card is likely going to be a powerhouse in aggro decks, so it won't come on the cheap. I'm going to try to snap one up at a rare draft or some such.

I like the idea of sacrificing resources for additional rolls. Has anyone considered replacing the mana requirements with a life payment? One life for one mana seems steep, but what about a half point of life?