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1  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / New Fact or fiction/Intuition! Kamigawa hot off the press! on: September 11, 2004, 02:02:33 pm
I like this card.  I think the real reason it COULD be better than intuition is the fact that it actually produces +1 card advantage without casting any of the fetched spells or abusing the graveyard synergy, which it can do fairly well.  Another situation I see this being good is if you fetch yawgwill, ancestral, walk, and another gifts ungiven.  So then you are guaranteed quite a bit of snowballing card advantage, similar to how tog functions, but you don't need to have ak's, just broken cards that you would have anyway.  I guess time will tell though.
2  Vintage Community Discussion / Casual Forum / ChK->Glimpse of Nature on: September 02, 2004, 11:41:17 pm
I actually did consider kobolds (based on the old turn 4 kobold-clamp deck) and it is a perfectly valid approach.  However, retracting artifacts I think is superior because it can produce mana and greatly increases the storm count without overreliance on yawgmoth's will.  Plus, you don't need to draw your whole deck at all, just enough to cast a lethal tendrils, which is easier with less using retract.  Plus, 4 glimpse AND 4 clamps that don't help without kobolds mean you would probably need to run more than 10, and I'm afraid that that may cause more inconsistancy.  It is worth testing though.
3  Vintage Community Discussion / Casual Forum / ChK->Glimpse of Nature on: September 02, 2004, 09:30:41 pm
First off, if this is in the wrong forum, then I'm sorry and please move it.

Here's the card from the mtgnews spoiler:

Glimpse of Nature -
Sorcery
Whenever you play a creature spell this turn, draw a card.

So, there may just be potiential here.  Unfortunately, I lack both a lot of time and a team, so I thought it would be prudent to post the raw form of the deck in the casual forum.  It is still in its infancy, so I am requesting help from the tmd community.  Here it is:

Creatures- 10

4 Ornithropter
4 Shield Sphere
2 Phyrexian Walker

Broken- 24

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Timetwister
1 Windfall
1 Tinker
1 Memory Jar
2 Diminishing Returns
3 Brainstorm
1 Mind's Desire
2 Retract/Hurkyll's Recall
4 Glimpse of Nature
1 Fastbond
1 Crop Rotation
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
2 Tendrils of Agony

Mana- 27

7 SoLoMoxen
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
4 Dark Ritual
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Glimmervoid
4 Gemstone Mine
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Chrome Mox

Total: 61

Obviously I need to cut a card, but I am uncertain of what to cut.  The idea of the deck is to go like a standard storm combo deck, but also has the ability to use glimpse to draw cards from free creatures, then recall/retract them back and do it again, always adding to the storm count.
In its current form and my current play skill Crying or Very sad it fizzles out a lot, but I have gotten several turn 1 kills in goldfishing.

Possibilities/Questions:

->Retract of Hurkyll's?  Retract is obviously better at going off, but Hurkyll's provides a maindeck answer to sph3re and chalice.  I think that this will prove worth the extra mana.

->Personally I have a lot of trouble keeping blue mana around. which is why I added LED, which may be a mistake, but initially it seems alright.

->Is it possible to support Force of Will in a deck like this?

->10 creatures seems like a good number to make sure your opening hand isn't totally clogged with creatures, but that you can actually abuse glimpse.  However, I could be wrong.

->Sideboard would definately include Xantid Swarm, cause it can even draw cards under glimpse!  But the other 11 cards are iffy.

->Can this become a consistant turn 1-2 combo deck?

Thanks in advance, but please don't feel that I'm just throwing these questions for others to finish the deck, but any thoughts and/or suggestions would be VERY welcome.

LET'S BREAK THIS THING!!!!
4  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Old Faerie Men (Bringing life back into Old Man of the Sea) on: August 29, 2004, 10:45:01 pm
@dicemanx-> Thanks for clarifying, and sorry if I my question annoyed you.
Back to the deck, it seems like some number of gorilla shamens could suppliment the CoWs and Rods, perhaps replacing some number of Flying Men, which seem to be the weakest creature in the deck.
5  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Old Faerie Men (Bringing life back into Old Man of the Sea) on: August 29, 2004, 01:26:17 pm
Why is there no comparisson between Firewalker and Old Man?  Maybe its my n00bness talking, but they both have the same cc, they both own the fish mirror, Firewalker is better with curiosity, while Old Man is better against welders.  Now I realize this is sortof a new deck, and the lack of curiosity and prevalence of workshop decks propably gives Old Man the edge, but saying that there's no comparisson seems to strong a statement.  Please explain any reason I haven't mentioned that makes you think this.
6  Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Superhero names on: August 27, 2004, 09:21:16 pm
Memnarch could be Mysterio...

Or should that be the morph lord?
7  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Old Faerie Men (Bringing life back into Old Man of the Sea) on: August 27, 2004, 08:59:52 pm
In what ways do you consider Old Man of the Sea to be superior to Suq'ata Firewalker? They both dominate the fish mirror and dodge things like fire/ice.  The only difference I can see is that Oldy can steal welders, and walker dodges random red things.

This would make me lean toward Oldy, but I'd like to hear about your thoughts regarding both of them.

EDIT: Firewalker is also better with curiosity.
8  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / [Article] The Return Of Ophie, The One-Eyed, Card-Drawing Sn on: August 26, 2004, 10:27:30 pm
I noticed that Vedalkan Shackles was in some of your initial lists, but was later cut for quicker solutions.  I was wondering how often the shackles allowed you to capture artifact fat as opposed to, say, fish men.  Or is it just that the counter wall keeps creatures down until you can steal them?

Another thing I was wondering was how relevant shackles is to the concerns about board position that the deck faces.  I believe you said this is why you cut chalices, but did you find the shackles to simply be too slow to give appreciable impact?
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