I'm actually listening to a piano suite I'm composing.

I trick or treated as Count Whiteula the Pimp Vampire this year.

It doesn't kill grunt which is an important difference.

CS with SBed FTKs is probably the best choice.  FTK will destroy Fish's midgame, and then you can play with all your big spells in the late game.

It looks like it could enable Mono U combo.  This allows the deck to quickly ramp to critical mass with gifts, and possibly intuition.

Because you get a much higher density of broken cards with this approach.  It may turn out that it's worse than dragon, but not testing it is a terrible idea.

Not if you're using corpse dance and shallow grave.  This approach dodges all of the non-graveyard hate that dragon faces and has a few more advantages in that it's not that awful to hardcast this guy, and it lets you play with rituals and will, giving you the stupid amount of I win hands associated with that.  It has several advantages over traditional tendrils combo as well, it gets to play with bazaar, which is fantastic against stax, and makes card disadvantage tutors that much better.  Your late game threats are cheaper as well.

Gemstone Caverns(1), pitch card(2), dark ritual(3), dark ritual(4), entomb(5) dragon, necromancy(6) on dragon, entomb(7) amabassador, mill for a bajillion on their upkeep.

Voila!

The issue isn't whether or not you'll eventually be able to cast him, but more that his ability just blows when you can.  How often when you have 1UBR up do you have lock pieces you haven't already played in hand?  A huge majority of the time when I'm in that situation I'd rather be casting Karn, Titan, Meddling Mage, Grand Arbiter Augustin...ad infinitum.  Compare the number of times mishra is better than another option WHEN YOU CAN CAST HIM, and then the number of times something else is better when you can't.

It doesn't seem to be worth it just to be able to bounce colossus.  Chain of Vapor, Hurkyls, and Rebuild all have proactive uses that this doesn't have.  And on top of that, colossus has been waning in popularity recently, further reducing this card's utility.  It might be better than slaver's lone Etruth though.

This card just seems too unwieldy now that misdirection is reasonably common again.  It won't necessarily even be that effective since your opponent gets to choose what to discard, and the fact that it has to wait 4 turns to become active is a huge downsside.  Duress is a much better disruptive card than this, and mind twist is a much better bomb, since you can nuke your opponents entire hand.

Where did this tourney take place?  I live in Tigard and I'd love to get in on this once in a while, unless it's at Rainy Day.

Hardly.  At that stage in the game whisper is better by a significant margin. In two turns whisper will have seen and netted you 1 card over brainstorm, barring a fetchland to make it even on cards seen.

People are making way too big a deal out of grunt against gifts, the reality is that most of the cards that are important to actually winning the game in gifts, will hit the grave at the end of turn before going off, leaving the fish player without an opportunity to eat them.  Grunt will likely be eating fetchlands, brainstorms and counterspells in the early game, but nothing important to the storm kill.

This was sanctioned right?  Vintage in the southern hemisphere is certainly interesting.

http://www.northwestmagic.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/forums.cgi?forum=1

That has info on magic events in the northwest, I don't know when you're going to be there so I don't know if anything's happening then.

Think of it this way, you play will instead of recycle and the game ends.

I had a little success in testing wiht meditate in the sleight slot, I felt it wasthe superior choice, but repeal pretty much outclasses it entirely.

Have you considered cutting FoF for another gifts now that you're running recoup?  It looks much more coherent with the combo style you've adopted.

Are you including situations in which you made the correct decision to keep a hand, but your opponent kept a hand that is statistically unlikely but foiled yours?

For example: It's game 1 and your opponent is playing dragon on the play.  You're playing say MDG.

You keep a hand of

Force of Will
Ancestral Recall
Chain of Vapor
Mox Pearl
Brainstorm
Fetchland
Fetchland

Your opponent goes

Mox Jet - Duress
Black Lotus
Bazaar
Pitch Dragon
Animate

Even though you kept a great hand, one that is unlikely that you are going to duplicate in power by mulliganing, you still lost despite any action you may have taken once the game began.

Are you saying that these situations haven't ocurred to you, or are you saying that if you mulliganed you may have gotten a hand that could foil this, which would constitute action you could have taken to prevent your loss?

Heaven forefend a company try to turn a profit with a nominal fee.

This is bad because you can't win off necromancy in response to your opponent tapping out to play a spell, it also requires red mana, as opposed to sliver queen and caller.

Salamander will only ever deal 1 damage to a creature, and alot of fish's creatures have 2 toughness.  Lavamancer requires a constant source of red mana, which fish's wastes can easily abate.

Academy Researchers doesn't have any errata.

Printed:

When Academy Researchers comes into play, you may choose an enchant creature card in your hand and put that enchantment into play attached to Academy Researchers

Oracle:
When Academy Researchers comes into play, you may put an Aura card from your hand into play attached to Academy Researchers.

Functionally identical, so if it ever had "into play from your hand" it's been removed.

Just to remind you all, the new land comes into play untapped.  Wasteland is infinitely better because it can shut down drain mana.

I didn't actually realize this was a joke until I opened up slashdot in a new window and saw the new pink color scheme.

A single cap activation will remove from about half, to all of workshop's win conditions.  A single sunforger activation, that is, assuming you can get all the mana together to play equip and activate sunforger, will destroy 2 artifacts.  And that is without assuming that you probably gave the workshop player 3 completely unmolested turns to play equip and activate sunforger(not to mention the creature you have to equip it to).  I hardly call that beating workshop.  Cap will come closer to exhausting the workshop player's ability to win than sunforger will a large percentage of the time.

I suppose I'm in the minority. Unless I'm actually able to end the game within the next turn or two, then I greatly prefer Fact.  It will actually replenish your hand without having to spend additional mana on top of the initial 4, something you have to do when Giftsing for CA with MDG.  That's one of the main reasons I dislike MDG, Giftsing into Brainstorm, Merchant Scroll, FoF, Gifts doesn't work as well as FoF into FoW, Brainstorm, Land, Drain, Land or something similar when trying to take control of the game.

That's just totally untrue.  Frantic Search was restricted because of academy, and it was never even run in GAT.  Likewise FoF was restricted because of mono U, not tog.

On the deck itself, I must agree with Sgt. Pepper,  Psychatog himself is extremely weak these days, he's vulnerable to blockers, rebs, and can't by himself win very fast anymore.

But if you don't win the game that turn, he is a 4/4 mox monkey for 5, who will likely win the game next turn, or seal it up tight for a couple mana, after nuking your opponents moxen.  Far sooner than titan would have if you needed to find 3 extra mana to cast him.


You seem to be forgetting that Karn does this too.  He eats moxen.