Hi there!

In an effort to build support for Vintage in my area, I'm running a fairly casual, unlimited proxy Vintage at my local store in Chantilly, Virginia. Here's the basic info:

Date: Saturday, December 29th, 2012.

Time: Registration begin at 1:00 PM, tournament begins at 2:00 PM

Where: Game Parlor
13936 Metrotech Drive
Chantilly, VA 20151

Entry/Prizes: $10 to enter. Store credit split among top 4/top 8 depending on participants.

If you have any questions, please message me here or post them in this topic. I'll be better able to answer your questions than the store.  

This bubble is leaving me with some concerns. I have some legacy staples like Aether Vials, Tops, SoFI, Wastelands, Goblin Piledrivers/Lackeys and whatnot.

I would like cash and really only play legacy a few times a year. So I'm torn between riding it out and if it hits even higher just selling and getting out of it and cashing out now.

I said I was going to go to Vintage yesterday then forgot

I guess that's what happens when you move over the weekend. Either way I have both legacy and vintage decks sleeved up already, so I'll for sure be there sometime soon

That's what I thought. But hey, if it wins I won't ask questions.

I recently played MUD to a finals split a tournament at Richmond Comix in VA. I was originally going to play Tezz, and during playtesting could be quoted as saying "I'm not so big on MUD sometimes because it's less broken early on due to its reliance on the combat step". I completely take that back. I love this deck. My list was pretty standard issue. I didn't play Smokestack, although I might. I'm not huge on the card, but it can be very powerful. But my question is the one that's harped on constantly. That of Sculpting Steel. Someone suggested I run multiple after the tournament, but I feel like every time I drew mine (I ran one) I wasn't excited. It's nice sometimes to seal a deal, but it feels like it's only good when I already have things that are good, unlike some cards where I can open with them (Like Spheres) and feel confident.

I know that exact opinion has been stated in this thread, but it seems to ring true. Sometimes it's bananas. But I want things that are almost always bananas. Nevertheless, I take back any comments I said about lack of brokenness in this deck early on. This deck has crazy openers sometimes.

I've got a car of at least 4 headed to this, and likely a second car as well

What's the expected turnout, you think?

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I agree to an extent. Many eternal staples have doubled in price in the last year (Was it largely due to the reserve list announcements? I'm honestly not sure) and some even more. I don't think we've seen the ceiling. But I don't think duals are going to be too much higher. Underground Sea I think is turning into about what the cap will be, +/- 15 dollars. Prices only hold as long as some people will pay it. Eventually card prices would get so high that no one wants to drop over 500 on 4 lands and card prices will stabilize. I do wish I hadn't sold my trops and FoWs, as I sold them (Albeit at a great deal) a few years back. I hope wastes get that high though. If I can get that in the next year or so, I'd probably take it. I mean, they'll already buy them for way more than I paid, and I just bought mine last May.

But I'm getting off-topic here. Times are great to sell cards, not so good to buy. I'm slightly worried what that means for the growth of the game. That's not to say magic is dying. It won't die for many years to come, I don't think. But legacy and vintage will become more difficult to enter.

Man, it's been a while since I played any vintage. But I've got the itch again. I might drop in here

I think Doomsday is spot-on here. He's huge and splashy and I can't wait to put him in my EDH deck, but he's the most conditional on passing the turn. The other two dudes make at least some impact the turn they come in. Iona probably locks them off most spells, Dragon does some damage (And if they're in a bad spot with Bob and/or Mana Crypt, may kill them, although it's unlikely so we'll ignore that), but the Eldrazi, while having the most devastating single attack, does not do anything but look scary his first turn around

Hey, I'm the Tezz player. It's actually David Wiggs, not Wright. But it's all good. I'm copying my MWS decklist, which I think was a card or two off, and I don't have the deck handy,  but here's something darn close to what I sat down with.

// Lands
    3  Underground Sea
    1  Tolarian Academy
    1  Library of Alexandria
    2  Volcanic Island
    2  Island
    1  Swamp
    3  Scalding Tarn
    2  Polluted Delta

// Creatures
    1  Inkwell Leviathan
    3  Dark Confidant

// Spells
    1  Vampiric Tutor
    1 Tinker
    1 Gifts Ungiven
    1  Merchant Scroll
    1  Mystical Tutor
    1 Ponder
    1  Brainstorm
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1 Yawgmoth's Will
    1  Time Walk
    1  Tezzeret the Seeker
    1  Fire/Ice
    1  Fact or Fiction
    1  Sensei's Divining Top
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Voltaic Key
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Mana Vault
    1  Sol Ring
    4  Force of Will
    4  Mana Drain
    3  Spell Pierce
    4  Duress
    1  Time Vault
    1  Ancestral Recall

// Sideboard
SB: 2  Red Elemental Blast
SB: 2  Darkblast
SB: 4  Leyline of the Void
SB: 3  Yixlid Jailer
SB: 2  Blue Elemental Blast
SB: 1  Relic of Progenitus
SB: 1  Tormod's Crypt

Depends on your style of remove you want. Is something like Masticore (Or it's winged friend, Scourge of the Kher Ridges) a bit too much? They served me quite well in my stack

Pretty much the same here. I run Rofellos too, and some of these big lugs on turn 4-5 will be completely game-winning. Hell, even if they don't swing for the kill, one attack is a huge tempo swing that early, and at the absolute worst, I get to draw 4.

I'm not, nor have I been, a rules lawyer. In fact, I'm probably nicer than most. So, this is more for the sake of discussion than anything, but let's consider for the following situations:

1.

Player A casts Harrow (or any tutor with conditions. I just chose Harrow since there's one on my desk next to me), places it in his graveyard and starts searching. Player B states that since placing a spell in to your graveyard is the last part of resolution, Player A had chose to let Harrow resolve without getting any land and thus was improperly looking through his deck. Would that fly?

2.

Player A plays any card that requires him to make a choice on casting (Like Story Circle, for example). He goes "I chose Red-er I mean Black", correcting himself quickly. Can player B hold him to his choice? Or for that matter, if there's no judge around, is there any proof if a judge is called regarding the dispute?

I'm sure both of these are discretionary, but thought I'd ask for my own enlightenment.

Bargain is an option over Tez in some control shells. One more mana (albeit at BB versus UU) for something that's equally likely to meet permission and will likely win you the game on resolution. Desire, however, if you're running Drain and FoW, that's 8 cards in your deck that are pretty blank to Desire into. Tez is a literal win-condition though, as you can make all your mana artifacts beat down, as opposed to Bargain, which will dig quite deep for the wincon, but cannot win you the game. I think that's why Tez gets the nod a lot

It could be Conservator

Endorsement whore or not, LSV lost me taking him seriously when he farted during a sealed video. It's still on youtube, I think

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThqWWzZNYUc Yep. 0:24ish.

That is usually what I do for formats where I don't intend to play with the proxies. If it's an X-proxy tournament, sharpie to a foil basic land adds style points. Especially when you use basics for their respective color moxen (Swamp makes Jet, Mountain makes Ruby, etc)

I agree 100%. I've never been a fan of Vault, and found it bites me in the butt way too often. I'd never thought of the single Worker, but it seems a lot better, and can even swing for one in odd situations.