Lol well if you're gonna bet on a sure thing why not bet twice?

I sincerley apologize if my comment was taken in a negative light. I was merley refering to the fact that Long Island is a rather long drive for anyone except those on Long Island. I am sure it will be a lovely tournament as have all the Long Island tournaments. If I in some way offended anyone I did not mean to, my comment was in reference to long driving distance not anyone in specific. Again good luck to all those playing Saturday!

I'd love to come to this but I'm in New Bern and have no way there, if anyone is going from near by me please let me know I don't want to be that creepy hitch hiking Magic chick lol

Awesome event, lost to the same Fish player Potuchek lost to for my win and in. Went 3-0 and then lost 3 in a row, sad panda :p I'll deff have to make the 10 hour drive for the next one lol.

Shawn Griffiths   Tom Dixon   Raf Forino   Josh Butker   John Geras
Josh Potucek   Scott Hughes   JP Kohler   Allen Fulmer Ray Robilliard
Matt Elias         Mike Hajduk   Tom Dixon   Chris Varosky John Jones
Ryan Glackin   Brian Carey   Visna Harris   Allen Fulmer   Mike Egan
Paul Mastriano   Mark Hornung   Vito Picozzo  Anthony Scalzo Brienne Pope

No idea who'se going to this thin, or why they'd treck all the way up to Long island to do it lol, but here's my best guess. Good luck everyone!

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Ryan Glackin
Vito Picozzo
Josh Potucek
Rob Edwards
Shawn Griffiths

Me and Bibendum will be moving to NC (the deep South) in less than two weeks so we will be making every attempt to make this tournament. Can't wait to meet some fresh faces!

Pretty stoked for this one, it's one of my last ones before moving to North Carolina, gonna be Dark Times' last hoorah!

Wouldn't miss it for the world! 

This has been in the works for nearly a month now, but it's finally close to happening.  I can't tell you what it is or my job title, but as soon as every i is dotted and t is crossed, I will happily share.

I love the Northeast, and I'm very sad to be leaving family and friends, but a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has come up that I simply cannot pass up.   Next week, I will be in my apartment for a planning meeting for my new job, and then looking for housing Friday and Saturday.   In particularly, I want to explore New Bern a bit for apartments.  '

I plan to revive Vintage in the South.  The South is -- quite frankly -- the home of Vintage.  It's where Mono White Parfait began, where JP Kohler lives, and it is a place where Vintage can return to glory, and I hope to do my part. 

However, I know many of you don't live in that area -- and since no one is available or free next Thursday afternoon, any time Friday, or Saturday to help me explore the area, learn the city, and look for housing or even just grab lunch, I won't to meet with you.  Please don't PM me (no solicitations)

I'm very much looking forward to this next and exciting stage of my life, and I hope that my tenure in the South, however long it may be, will help revive Vintage in that part of the country.   

Brienne





P.S. Thanks Smmenen

Congrats on the win Tom. The list is interesting to say the very least. From what I saw you played really tight.

Yes indeed Dark Times with White. It'll get there next time, I assure you.

Considering I respect Demars as a player I wouldn't "jab" him. It was a relevant response to an equally relevant point. I don't sit around pontificating how I can invalidate someone's post. I stand by my opinion that opening up the format to more interesting deck building is a positive thing, not a negative.

I might be reading into this the wrong way, and if I am please let me know. But how is opening a format up to innovation a bad thing? I think it makes the format healthier if anything, it enables players to test with riskier things rather than everyone have the same hum drum answers to Dredge. Don't get me wrong, I personally love me some Dredge players, but that's an opinion based on the deck I play. But for someone to make a sweet new brew and actually have a shot to do well with it seems positive.

Oh my goodness, this card is a house. Snap call, running 4 in the main. Oath, Tinker, Dredge, Yawg Will, Combo, Kuldotha Shops, SHUT DOWN!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a single card that changes the hate that every deck will have to run is influential at the VERY least.

Yea the Goyf Gush decks should be largely unaffected. As for Dark Times, it's not very graveyard based other than Yawg Will, and you aren't casting creatures from your deck so it's freaking amazing for Dark Times! I can't speak for the other decks you listed but there's my two cents about a deck I know well.

Got 99 problems but a graveyard aint one. Just wow! Dredge, Oath, Tinker/Blightsteel, Yawg Will, this card is a house!

In alphabetical order:



Matt Elias
Ryan Glackin
Mark Hornung
Vito Picozzo
Brienne Pope

Congrats on the win Mischa Dettwiler However I still stand by the fact that I think the Death Shadow combo is weak in comparison to other combo options. I'll be debuting a new Dark Times list with a special splash this Saturday, should be good for the current meta. We shall see.

I can safely say that the deck I am playing is NOT in fact named Dark Times.

Super excited to debut the new deck at this tournament guys! These tournaments are always fun! Here's to hoping someone passes the door prize to me again lol.

Speaking on behalf of 100% of the females in attendance at the event (Spoiler alert-just me lol) I didn't mind his shirt at all. Many things cause barriers for female Magic players, but I assure you, corny t-shirts are not one of them

If I wanted to run Dredge I would be. This new Dredge tech doesn't scare me as a Dark Times pilot in the least. I can see why other players would be fearful of it seeing as it changed how they board, but to me it's just a cute little gimmick that will go away just as soon as people realize it's a poor effort to shove in another win condition to a deck that doesn't know how to do anything but flip cards into their graveyard.

I understand the concept fine, I just don't think it's all that useful. It seems like he's spreading himself too thin. Also, how exactly does implementing the Dark Times combo protect someone from counterspells? I feel like this deck in general has no answer to the broken blue, the Oath, or the Shops decks. In all actuality it only seems to strengthen a Dredge on Dredge match and nothing else. I do agree that it hits your opponent hard when they've dug for their graveyard hate, but in the end a strong deck vs this one wouldn't have that hard a problem in the end. It isn't like any deck playing any counterspells ditches all of them in favor of 4 Leylines.

I'd also love to touch on the same subject as above. I get the cuteness of boarding out half your strategy to throw off the other player, but take it from someone who actually runs Dark Times, not having any tutors seems exceptionally poor. Then again trying to shove in a combo that generally needs it's own deck to run does also.

Trying to find a ride to the Vintage tournament, would be coming from Scranton PA, if anyone is available please let me know I can throw in gas money. Thank you

Don't call it a comeback, we've been here for years lol. No but seriously, mental misstep is SUCH a pain! I board it in half the time just to misstep missteps.

This past Saturday I played in a 20 person tournament and took 4th. I did fine against Shops (2-0), ELVES! (2-1) and assorted aggro. I lost in the finals against a TPS list that just moved faster than mine could. Here is the list I played.


2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
2 Dark Depths
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
10 Swamp
4 Dark Confidant
4 Vampire Hexmage
1 Hex Parasite
1 Pithing Needle
1 Mox Jet
1 Lotus Petal
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Black Lotus
1 Helm of Obedience
1 Necropotence
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
4 Thoughtseize
1 Mind Twist
1 Imperial Seal
4 Duress
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Diabolic Edict
4 Dark Ritual
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Liliana of the Veil

SB:
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Perish
1 Chains of Mephistopheles
2 Snuff Out
3 Mental Misstep
1 Diabolic Edict
2 Yixlid Jailer
2 Hex Parasite
2 Emissary of Despair



Hex Parasite in the main was an awesome advantage game one against Shops, and it's great as a quick beater in games where there aren't things to remove counters off yet. And mental misstep in the sb against tendrils was awesome, I beat TPS twice before losing in the quarter finals.