jpmeyer thinks you're cool.

They just printed this against Vitu-Ghazi in Standard. I don't understand the attention it receives in Vintage.

This is worst than Wasteland, even if your opponent runs basics. In that case, using Ghost quarter to destroy nonbasic lands causes them to fetch basics (so Wasteland would have done a strictly better job). It becomes even worst when you destroy a basic land and they fetch another.. it's like you've lost a land drop and done nothing else.

It's only after reading this that you understand how important this guy is. I mean, what would this game be if Wizards didn't have a guy who's paid to look at every single card's oracle text and add the word "the" to whippoorwill ?(also, he notices about that kind of meaningless detail that nobody cares about, while nobody in the entire fucking Ravnica design team noticed that Flame Fusillade somehow interacted well with Time Vault ?)

He writes about himself like without him it would be anarchy or something.

I've been focusing a lot on Gottlieb's given excuse for the last few hours, and I came to the conclusion that it's just too lame to be genuine. Cost of an activated ability ? Original intent of the card ? More smells like bullshit to me. I mean, how did they come to discuss that "problem" doing their work time to the point that they are actually going to errata it ? What kind of people are so irritated with that sort of issue that they come to make some of their best customers lose hundreds of dollars ?

The excuse is lame, the timing is awful and the announcment itself looked stupid (an Ask Wizards ?). There's either a better reason for them to do this, or the whole thing is a joke.

BTW, the Eternal community is reacting with class from what I've seen yet. Heck, I discovered that I myself have a Flame Fusillade and I'm pissed off...

That's also very sketchy on the legal plan, I wonder how Hasbro deals with that. Martha Stewart for example got in jail for insider trading (accessing privigeled information). What about a Wizard employee who learned about this like a week ago and sold his Vaults ? Or who was aware of Flame Fusillade when Vault costed 50$ ? Don't forget, this company literally prints money, and I didn't think they would ever do such an errata particularly for that reason (which happends to also be the reason why they will never print power).

About Vintage. This format has became way too much trouble to follow. Less tournaments, less support from Wizards, expensive cards and now there's this. I'm tired of this shit.

Nice little sarcasms; but you are wrong, you CAN Stifle Mana Drain's ability (a mana ability is either written on the form tap: add mana like lands or something that gives you more mana off taping lands). For example, Heartbeat of Spring is a mana ability but Mana Drain isn't.

On another hand, this guildmage sucks.

With that hand going first, I would just lay the mana sources, then play Lion, then Chalice 0. If they lay a blue source, naming brainstorm is absolutely great. If they lead with shops of bazaar you still have a good idea of what to name, and you have Wasteland (in that scenario atleast).

There's not much more to do if you play the Mage on turn 1 than randomly guessing, which is bad. You don't know what your opponent is playing, period. No pros or whatever are ever gonna tell you some trick if you have no idea of what they play.

While these restrictions could do small agreement for those who are not "conservatives", the day drain/workshop get restricted is the day where a big part of vintage players and collectors are just going to quit (in disgust), so it would be silly to do it to revive the format.

There's also a good old argument here, that vintage without Ritual-Gifts-Drain-Workshop-Welder-Oath exists, it's called Legacy.

Exploration post-Gush... I've tried it in everything. Oath, Constant mists recursion, Enchantress (GW, BG, UG), Turbo-confinement. I thought Crucible was an omen when I saw it but apparently not.
Quirion Dryad (post-Gush).
Treetop Village.
Isochron/Chant (happends to suck in Vintage).

Flores isn't close-minded to the small and distinct vintage community. Birds is probably the one-mana creature that has seen play (and influenced) in the biggest number of formats ever, which is obvious because it has been reimprinted through so many expansions. It's just always been there.

Don't take all what he says like he was talking to you guys. He probably doesn't even know you exist.

Morphling is just better (and Morphling is bad).

What's the deal w/ the sharing color thing ?

Definitions of "Enchantments" and "Artifacts" just contradict themselves as R&D sees them. Of course, there sometimes are stuff that twist the flavors (Mycosynth Lattice, Opalescence), but I'm fine with it as long as it's multiple cards (there are also Birds that grab SoFIs, etc.). I hope an Enchantment-Artifact never gets printed though.

The way declaring attackers work, this wouldn't even work. You would have to play this before the attack is declared (so you don't know what would have attacked you in the first place), and once the attackers are declared, I'm pretty sure things can't be changed.

Strictly worst than Moment of Silence.

The "potion" subtype itself seems kinda useless, doesn't it ?

Obviously two-cards combos are weaker than cards that are a combo by themselves. To me this just seems more broken than Aether Vial.

What ? Dreadnought's wording as it is on the card doesn't allow any kind of synergy with Aether Vial...