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Eternal Formats / Northeast U.S. / Re: N.Y.S.E. Open II - Power Eight, Workshops & Bazaars Vintage Event - 6/21-22
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on: March 15, 2014, 03:42:47 pm
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I think I'll try to head out for this, mostly as an excuse to visit New York again. I also plan on attending a Yankees game (and booing them relentlessly, of course).
Nick, if no one else is interested, I am probably willing to run video coverage and give some commentary a shot. I'll update here when I know for sure what travel plans look like, and I have some streaming stuff but nothing crazy so if other people (especially people closer) have nice cameras and/or audio equipment that would be awesome.
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Eternal Formats / General Strategy Discussion / Re: How to respond to the creature removal as beatdown
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on: February 16, 2012, 01:55:31 pm
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I have a strong intuition that the key to solving this format is to play more Jace, the Mindsculpter in one's creature decks. If you have Jace it doesn't matter if they can remove your guys, because you have Jace... Also, Mystic Remora is a pretty solid way to protect one's guys from removal, since you'll be getting further ahead on resources every time they try and pick off one of your pieces.
Yes but this is off topic Wat. Brian: This is how I feel you can deal with creature removal in a beatdown deck Guli: Your direct answer to the question posed in this thread is off topic. |
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Eternal Formats / Midwest U.S. / Re: Xtreme Games Monthly Vintage 1/15/2012
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on: January 17, 2012, 10:31:04 am
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aj took 1st with his own take on that euro 4x emrakul, ?xBSC, 4x show and tell, 4x oath of druids, tinker, channel deck. Apparently he'd never seen it before and independantly popped that bad boy out. They're were definite differences to the lists.
I@n came in second with a doomsday list, 2 rits main, 2 in the sb, necro in the main. doomsday has been doing really well at these events.
Zero ichorid in the field, a lot of u control, bit of oath, some time vault action. One mono red burn.
Thanks. Who did I@n come with? Did he make the drive on his own? |
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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: Best Movies of 2011
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on: January 10, 2012, 04:13:44 pm
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I tend to watch a lot of movies on DVD and via download moreso than in theatres, so I'm really bad about release years. Among those mentioned already, Drive was fantastic (love the soundtrack, it does such an incredible job of emphasizing the emotions of the film). Moneyball was really good, but I also like baseball and math a lot so I might be a bit biased. Fast Five was surprisingly good, and had a real plot instead of just 2 hours of cars. I think it was the best in the series since the first, and probably the best overall (because the first was so hilariously badly written). Super 8 was a lot better than I expected; it evoked movies like Stand by Me and other 70s coming-of-age flicks, which can only be a good thing. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is actually next on my list, and I'll try to catch Melancholia as well based on these recommendations.
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Eternal Formats / Northeast U.S. / Re: Announcing the 2012 Northeast Vintage Series! Time to play in NY and NJ!
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on: December 15, 2011, 03:59:55 pm
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I think Mike (quicksilver) makes an interesting point; what if you made the threshold for the end-of-year tournament rather low, to make it more like a reward for attending events (therefore, directly rewarding player retention) rather than a reward for winning them? If I win your events, I'm already getting a reward. If I am a newer player, and I scrub out a couple times, and get beat up, I'm not gonna be super excited to go back when I know this whole year is building to an event I can't play in.
If, however, you changed the threshold so that someone who attended every event and lost was able to qualify for the last event... why wouldn't I attend? All I have to do is get enough points to qualify, and then just get lucky one time and I can win a mox or better. I show up to other events and get better at the game and don't have this huge pressure to make multiple top 8's in order to keep relevant, and I can sorta build up to the invite event knowing that, if I attend every month, I will be able to play there and maybe all these weeks of work will really pay off. I mean, one mox is like 15 entry fees or something? All I have to do is keep showing up, and if I make that one top 8, I am paid up for the year! That's awesome!
I think that approach would be awesome for the goal of getting people to come to a lot of events. You don't even really have to scale up prizes, since it's a free final event and player count doesn't really matter. You can keep byes and stuff as rewards, too, so that Paul Mastriano is rewarded for winning half the events while someone who did really bad all year but kept showing up still gets to play, just not with two byes (sorta grand prix-like).
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Eternal Formats / Online Tournaments / Re: TMD Online Invitational II - Community vs. Ringers
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on: December 06, 2011, 10:38:29 am
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Sure, I'll plan to play in the next one. I realize TMD is frequented considerably more by east coast-ers than midwesterners at this point, which does decrease the chances of those people requesting spots. Hell, I didn't even know this thread existed until last night.
Also, from what I could tell from just the public posts, the last invite thing and your initial ringers were people that I assume you personally asked. I just think it might help encourage people who don't live in Philly to participate if you were to email midwesterners as well, like Kevin Cron or Ben Carp or James King or any number of other successful Midwest players. At the very least, it would give you a more representative sample of US vintage. I'm not trying to criticize this thing or put it down, just offering my take.
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Eternal Formats / General Strategy Discussion / Re: [Innistrad] - Snapcaster Mage
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on: December 05, 2011, 03:29:00 pm
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Bob's and Clique's attacking is relevant in the blue mirror in a similar way that Jace's ultimate is relevant or Mana Crypt's drawback is relevant. It's not nothing but it's not high on the list of priorities.
Clique kills Jace in one swing and can be cast after Jace has used up his action for the turn. It's extremely relevant. Unless your opponent is daft, that works once. If that. I don't get it. Why only once? What are you gonna do, play Jace and fateseal me? Then I'll make a 3/1 and put your Jace to 2 counters. Then what? Unsummon him? That isn't gonna work. You can fateseal again, I guess, but that's a pretty big waste of a 4 mana Sorcery Planeswalker. |
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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: LIVE VINTAGE VIDEO STREAMING -- Team Series Open
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on: December 03, 2011, 08:40:57 pm
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Jimmy McCarthy wins it in 2 with Delver of Secrets and Tarmogoyf!
Also, I know I referred to the deck as Meandeck Delver, but to give credit where it is due, I got the deck from JR Goldberg, of Team R&D. It is pretty much an entirely R&D-designed list (particularly Rich Shay), with my only real contributions being the Vendillion Clique (that I never cast)
However, I think Meandeck Delver Of Secrets Not Designed At All By R&D, or MDOSNDAABRD is a much better name and catchier acronym.
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