I would also love to see it come home to waterbury.

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Nice report!!

I played him in the first round of top 8 it is tough to play against.Overall congrats on your finish.

Playing with three sensei's divining tops are much better than playing with two because it gives you a greater advantage in using the confidant.

If anyone has open slots on teams please state the team name and where the team is from(town, state, where you play), or if anyone wants to start a team pm me. I live in enfield, connecticut, I play all types of vintage around my region.





Thanks,
Steve

This is a thread for players looking for open slots on teams. I decided to create this because I, like many others is looking for a team to join.

Thanks,
Steve

I fixed your thread title, for clarity

Dave is definetly the best magic player ever congrats dude!

He is usually good about getting the decklists up fast be patient!

Yes good finish! if I ever finished that high at waterbury I would go crazy! Do you have any idea what you played against in round 8?

Yes I agree that red is not a need to a good dragon deck, but the green is needed-- I think that xantid swarms are key in this deck because you definetly need to protect you combo. When I used to play dragon I would almost always make sure that I had a swarm on the table before I would go for the win- it is to risky without it. Another key card that green uses is crop rotation, bazaar needs to get out fast for a quick win. Last off, you may want to run 1 more animate spell to make sure that you have enough.

Hey can someone enlighten me on the whole top sixteen results? thanks

Good Job on beating me in top 8 dave and nice report. If only I casted that bargain second turn.....

I think a transformational sideboard could also work in this deck, like a Rector Trix.

  VERY TRUE!

So I guess it is true that zheng won waterbury last april also, along with this one this year. I left when he was playing in his top 8 match and he was getting owned pretty bad by oath salvagers, with the other person he was facing getting a first turn win. He must have made a comeback.

O my god. Why the hell would you run three colors in TPS. You  would need two turns to get out your volcanic island and underground sea- and this deck sucks without the underground sea. This would also need you to get out two fetches by turn two to even get a second turn win. TPS is supposed to go off turn 1 or two, maybe even three but, overall relying on your fetchlands and getting godly draws is not the way to play TPS.

This card is from the new set Betrayers of Kamigawa. I was wondering if anyone else noticed this but this may have some infinite abilities to go with it. For one the card's mana cost is 2B. This is somewhat cheap for type one combo. Its wording: Enchant Creature: "You may play Blessing of Leeches any time you may play an instant.""At the beginning of your upkeep you loose one life."" 0: Regenerate enchant creature."BINGO!!! infinite triskelion! Triskelion pings it's oponent twice and pings itself once.(Triskelion comes into play with four +1/+1 counters on it, Remove a counter from Triskelion: Triskelion deals one damage to target creature or player)Questions? Comments?

I never actually understood the combo between phrexian dreadnought and illusionary mask could someone please inform me!!!!Thanks


Illusionary Mask
2
Artifact
X: Put a creature card with converted mana cost X or less from your hand into play face down as a 0/1 creature. Put X mask counters on that creature. Play this ability only any time you could play a sorcery. The creature's controller may turn the creature face up any time he or she could play an instant by removing all mask counters from it. This effect ends if the creature is turned face up. A,B,U-R [Legal in Vin.] (Oracle Version Date: January 22, 2005. See http://gatherer.wizards.com/)

Phyrexian Dreadnought
1
Artifact Creature
12/12
Trample
If Phyrexian Dreadnought would come into play, sacrifice any number of creatures with total power 12 or greater instead. If you do, put Phyrexian Dreadnought into play. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. MI-R [Legal in Vin, Leg.] (Oracle Version Date: January 22, 2005. See http://gatherer.wizards.com/)

Mask lets you pay 1 to put the dreadnought into play facedown, avoiding the 'nought's drawback. You can then flip the 12/12 without any sacrifices.

However, you could have asked this in the rules forum, or used the search function to see if it's explained elsewhere. Warning for spam.

-Jacob Orlove[/color]

I dont know maybe its just me but I am having a problem with running drains and bazaars in the same deck. It is an exellent idea and probably took alot of thought but they just dont fit in  the same deck together.

Maybe you could try running circular logics especially with this deck, would give you exellent draw and cheap counterspell.

I dont think gush would be necessary at all in this deck considering it takes two turns to activate plus two islands...ouch!!!

Just goldfishing with this deck i had some(or I should say alot) of problems with spoils of the vault. This card is key to getting the win but most of the time it is pure luck. I mean if your fishing for a ritual that has four copies then your pretty much set but that lotus is tempting...This calls on if you are a good mtg player or not also.

Carl, don't you think that the forces in tps a re somewhat of a security so your oponent does not cast a first turn 3sphere? I mean in recent post you were telling us about in multiple matches trinispheres and other decks that play cards exactly like that where you needed an answer and  it makes your deck that much better and then you go off next turn.

Your hand will be screwed by discarding it to the Bgahdad. You cannot put Bazaars in a control deck.

Can you actually be happy about this other than getter the three boosters?

Thanks for the clarifacation.

Meandeck Doomsdeck used the FoW, Duress's, and Unmask's to protect their spells, without them this deck is flat-they are a need.

With bazaar of Baghdad and control you totally fucked up your mana base, plus !draw! with portal?? I dont think this deck will work to well with these standards.

4 choices....

i think it will find its place in a lot of decks like stasis may come back now

sounds like it could be ok in t1