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1  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Old Faerie Men (Bringing life back into Old Man of the Sea) on: September 27, 2004, 08:22:55 am
Smile Actually my board was:

3 REB
3 Rack and Ruin
2 Fire / Ice
1 BEB
2 Seasinger
2 Stifle
2 Copy Artifact

I was worried about storm decks, so I left the stifles in. However, I might have been better off with the third seasinger and second BEB.
2  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Old Faerie Men (Bringing life back into Old Man of the Sea) on: September 26, 2004, 08:16:40 pm
Hello again.

I took Old Faerie Men to The Mana Drain Open Championship and finished sixth, winning a Mox Ruby.  Very Happy

The deck list I used was closer to Evilkin's original list, with the main difference being Spiketail Hatchlings instead of Flying Men.

I did not use Curiosities this time and, in all honesty, I did not miss them. In their place I put in a third Daze, third Old Man, second Fire / Ice, and a Black Lotus. This decision was based on my matches at the OVC, and playtesting. Curiosity, while great in a true fish deck, wasn't providing me enough card advantage to make it worthwhile. Also, when I did have a curiosity out, I was usually hoping to draw into a fire/ice or old man anyways.

P.S. Congratulations Dan Rosu for finishing second Very Happy . Team Nonesense bringing it home for Canada  Exclamation
3  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / US and European Vintage, Will the gap ever close? on: September 09, 2004, 04:38:52 pm
I had nothing to do with the development of "Old Faerie Men". Evilkin and Dejan (Dan) Rosu talked me into playing it, and i just happened to do well with it.   Cool  

Dan has been trying to post as olddanofthesea, but has been unable to for some reason.  Confused

<gunpoint>Dan did not put me up to this</gunpoint> Twisted Evil
4  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Old Faerie Men (Bringing life back into Old Man of the Sea) on: September 06, 2004, 11:15:40 am
Here is my deck list:

1 - Fire / Ice
2 - Old Man of the Sea
4 - Grim Lavamancer
4 - Spiketail Hatchling
4 - Cloud of Faeries
4 - Curiosity
1 - Ancestral Recall
1 - Timewalk
2 - Daze
4 - Standstill
4 - Force of Will
3 - Null Rod
3- Crucible of Worlds
1 - Mox Sapphire
1 - Library of Alexandria
1 - Strip Mine
4 - Flooded Strand
1 - Polluted Delta
3 - Island
4 - Volcanic Island
4 - Mishra's Factory
4 - Wasteland

Sideboard:
1 - Blue Elemental Blast
2 - Stifle
2 - Sigil of Sleep
2 - Fire / Ice
2 - Maze of Ith
3 - Red Elemental Blast
3 - Rack and Ruin

Evilkin and Dejan had been testing Spiketail Hatchling vs Flying Men and agreed that the hatchling would be better.

The third crucible was great, and I would have liked a third Old Man, especially against fish. I never had a hard time with the 3cc (maybe I'm just lucky Smile ). If I resolved an Old Man first game I won. Against 4cc it gave me extra turns to attack, because he needed to get rid of the old man before he could morph in an angel. By the time he was able to, he was low enough that I could finish him off. Against workshop, stealing welders was key. Against fish, thanks for the lavamancer.

The curiosities weren't  as useful as I would have liked. Most of the time the opponent was able to deal with the creature before I got to abuse it. Swords, Lavamancer, flying blockers (including pentavite tokens), Fire, etc. all hindered my curious creatures. Still, when it did work out for me, it was great.
5  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Old Faerie Men (Bringing life back into Old Man of the Sea) on: September 05, 2004, 08:43:07 pm
I took a version of this deck to the Ontario Vintage Championship 2 with some changes suggested by Balzary. There were about 40 people there, and I ended up getting 3rd place. Smile

I had a 4-1-1 record after 6 rounds of swiss play.

Round 1: 2-1 vs 4cc
Round 2: 2-1 vs 7/10 split?
Round 3: 1-1-1 vs fish
Round 4: 1-2 vs CoW Combo
Round 5: 2-1 vs fish
Round 6: 2-0 vs survival/shapeshifter/masknaught (can't remember the deck name)

Top 8: 2-1 vs fish
Top 4: 1-2 to shockwave playing a UB Workshop deck

Old Man of the Sea helped out a lot. He stole lots of lavamancers, but the best was in round 2 where a stolen welder plus null rod allowed me to weld away his 2 pentavus (pentavi?) for a gilded lotus and a mox pearl.

I only ran 2 Old Men, but a third would have been nice, especially against fish.
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