I appreciate the informative response.  I have been selling most of my "blue" vintage collection lately, except the cards necessary to play UW Bomberman/Blue Angels.  I have always played a Dark Confidant control deck or some sort of Gush list, but I have become very bored of them over the last couple years. I guess I am looking for some opinions on UW Bomberman/Blue Angels decks before calling it quits with Blue.

What is your point?

What is your opinion of the Blue Angels deck?

I know that I may be resurrecting this thread, but is UW Bomberman still a viable deck?  I have seen a couple of Esper lists pop up here and there, but what happened to the awesome results that the UW lists were putting up?  Are there changes that need to be made in order for the UW version to shine again? Any thoughts?

Great tournament report, and I am happy to see that Nick is back to playing Vintage! 

Greg, those miscuts are freaking sweet!

I have to agree with what a few others have said about pictures and videos in a tournament report. Pictures are a must for me.  They help breathe some life into a tournament report. Even better would be some videos of important matches, even if they are just videos of the top 8.

Sweet looking list Stephen!  Makes me want to sleeve up some Gush's again! 

Any chance that there is a link to a live stream? Hoping to live vicariously through the stream since I was unable to attend

I have been running Myr Battlesphere instead of BSC in my Grixis deck for the last two months.  The meta usually consists of Fish, Shops, and an assortment of blue decks including Esper Bomberman.  I felt like Blightsteel Colossus was a liability in the deck, and Myr Battlesphere fixed a lot of the problems I was having.  Battlesphere was great against both Smokestack and Tangle Wire, and the game was interesting and interactive when copied by Phyrexian Metamorph.  The four extra 1/1's were sweet against Fish, providing support against a hoard of creatures.  It was even great in the face of Jace, the Mind Sculptor, and hurts way less when flipped to Dark Confidant.  I feel like Myr Battlesphere is a better choice at the moment, but to each their own!

My favorite Vintage playable card would have to be Time Walk.  It was my first piece of power, and it was a gift from my parents.

The other cards that fit into my top 5 Vintage playable cards would have to be Gush, Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Dark Confidant, and Time Vault in no particular order.

I am not familiar with a lot of the places in the area, so I will leave it up to you guys to pick!

Super jealous!

We had 9 players in attendance today.  There were 3 who were unable to make it, but hopefully we will see them at the next event!

We played 5 rounds of Vintage with a cut to top 4.

The Metagame Breakdown:

2 Grixis Control
1 Turbo Tezz
1 Gush Remora
1 Doomsday Cobra Gush
1 Noble Fish
1 Dragon (Minus Six)
2 Espresso Stax


The Top 4 Deck Lists:

1st/2nd- Matthew
"Sir Robert the Tezzeret"

1 Blightsteel Colossus
3 Dark Confidant
1 Goblin Welder

2 Tezzeret, the Seeker
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Echoing Truth
1 Thirst For Knowledge
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Mental Misstep
2 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will

1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Transmute Artifact
1 Yawgmoth's Will

1 Black Lotus
2 Grim Monolith
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Opal
1 Sol Ring
1 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault

1 Tolarian Academy
3 Island
3 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
2 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn

Sideboard:
1 Flusterstorm
1 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Ingot Chewer
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Mountain
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Tormod's Crypt
3 Yixlid Jailer

1st/2nd- Dale
"Espresso Stax"

Decklist coming soon
(did not provide one)


3rd/4th- James
"Dragon-Minus Six"

Decklist coming soon
(did not provide one)

3rd/4th- Zach
"Grixis Control"

1 Myr Battlesphere
4 Dark Confidant
3 Snapcaster Mage

2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Flusterstorm
3 Mental Misstep
2 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will

1 Demonic Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth's Will

1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault

1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn

Sideboard:
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Mountain
1 Perish
1 Pithing Needle
1 Pyroclasm
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Yixlid Jailer


My brother and I took some photos of the event.  There were far to many to post, so I will provide the link to the album:

http://s1287.beta.photobucket.com/user/LouisianaVintage/library/Vintage%20Tournament%203-2-13


Thanks to everyone who came out and made the event so awesome! 

Ok, checked out flight prices.  Going to discuss potentially going with my brother. I guess the only problem would be finding a place to crash, or finding a cheap hotel to split with other people.

Definitely interested in going, probably going to skip GenCon in favor of this tournament!

I am in the same boat.

5 of the 7 players were actually fully powered/without proxies!  RisingWater is currently finishing his power/Worshops, and the Noble Fish player had to proxy Meddling Mages lol.  

We finally had our first Vintage event in southern Louisiana with 7 players in attendance!  Unfortunately more people did not show up due to the holiday festivities and short notice, but hopefully next time we will have at least 8! 

We decided to play 6 rounds with a top 2 playoff.

The Metagame Breakdown:

2 Grixis Control
1 Dredge (Fatesticher)
1 Esper Bomberman
1 Noble Fish (Shardless Agent)
1 Mono Red Shops
1 East Coast Wins

The top 2 playoff was split by East Coast Wins and Esper Bomberman.

I apologize for not having everyone's deck lists.  For future events I will ask for the lists.


Here are some pictures from the event! RisingWater also has a few more!















A special thanks to RisingWater for getting this event together 

I would be up for playing at And Books too this weekend in favor of Anime and Games Central.. I used to play in the Legacy FNMs there.  Either place is fine though!

That would be great! Best of luck to you in starting something up over there!  I may be able to to attend a tournament or two in Texas if I am not taking summer classes.

Thats fine man.  I have not played competitive vintage since GenCon last year, or any type of competitive magic for that matter.  It will be nice to get back into the swing of things.

At least he will know that we mean business! 

Thanks Prospero! 

I just reached out to H, and I look forward to hearing back from him.  Hopefully he can make it!

Saturday sounds great.  I am up for anytime from noon till they close, but I could always show up earlier if needed.

Sounds great man!  That place is great.  If they are too crowded for some reason, there is another card shop/comic book store right across the street with some tables. 

This is extremely exciting!  Are you guys going on Saturday or Sunday, and do you have any particular time in mind?

I really appreciate the info. Thanks!

I totally understand man, its no problem at all!

Actually, Lafayette is a lot closer to me than Lake Charles!  It is about an hour and a half trip for me as well. 

What store were you guys planning to get together at?

This sounds sweet!

I have not heard back from you, but I understand that you are busy.  I was wondering where you guys might be getting together to play?  I am going to be free next weekend, and I would love to play some vintage, and I am sure that my brother would be interested in going as well!  I would really appreciate it man, and I look forward to getting a vintage scene going in Louisiana.  

I want it!

My kitchen tables magic days were filled with Goblins, Elves, and Dragons.  I had an Onslaught goblin precon deck that I upgraded with Goblin King and Goblin Grenade.  I also had a green/red dragon deck with 4 Elvish Piper's and what ever big dragons were laying around.  After Mirrodin released, I had a deck with Platinum Angel, Lightning Greaves, and Mindslaver.  Those were the days!

Although a cool idea, I would like to do something relating to vintage!

Wow! Amazing playmat Greg! 

Prospero, love the scene on that mat.  Greg did an insanely amazing job on that too.




I made this one a long time ago(nothing too amazing), but I messed it up when inking it in with the wrong type of colored markers. I just recently picked up a blank purple playmat, and I am still trying to figure out what to draw on it.

Sweet!