Thanks for the quick report. I think your deck is very solid. I do request your opinion on a few cards.

1. Mana Vault: I've always hated this card. What's your experience? I often find that I would prefer another colored source (e.g. a Mox Opal) since you need a relatively high number of colored mana to begin your storm rampage. Opal is especially nice since you can add black one turn and blue the next (assuming you go past turn one ).

2. I noticed you have 2 Chrome Mox and 1 Mox Opal. Any reason it's not 1/2 or 2/2 split? I find that I usually put the Mox on black with a Duress or something. Are you worried about drawing two Opals or do you not feel it's just not as good as Chrome?

3. Did you miss Windfall?

Thanks.

Wow, sick draws in the finals. Congrats!

1. Madison, WI

2. Depends...probably an hour or two.

3. Depends on the players, right? A play set of undergrounds or a mox would be nice. Though, I would really just prefer something like $20 entry.

4. Space, clean tables, vintage players

5. Ideally zero proxies. Maybe we'll see a resurgence of aggro decks?

I'm in! Big blue baby!

I'm so jealous. Dreamers used to host such great tournaments back in the day. Would be nice to have occasional tournaments in Madison.

Awesome! I appreciate the effort you guys are putting in to revive the Wisconsin vintage scene. I'll try to make it.

The winning list is card-for-card the list I would have played at GenCon if not for work (other than the sideboard mountain). Congrats to everyone who played and represented the greatest format.

It's really a shame that this isn't being streamed. Hopefully someone will at least record the top eight matches for later viewing. Unfortunately, it's the closest some of us get to real sanctioned vintage. What I would give for a sanctioned vintage scene around here...

I can't play today or tomorrow, so I'll concede. Sorry, Guli...we'll play for fun when I have some time. =)

Are decklists going to be posted for this event and the previous few Xtreme events?

I'm in

Got absolutely smoked by GI 2-0 playing my bant deck. I made play mistakes, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway as I would have needed much better draws to deal with what he threw down. Have yet to win a game with that pile!

This one's finally over. Lost to GI in 3 great games. I was playing Snapcaster control and he was on Bob control. The second game was particularly interesting and involved about 10 momentum swings and some Jace fights. He ripped a REB to kill my Snapcaster one turn before his Jace would have been attacked to death. From there, Jace took the match by doing what he does.

I played Guli today. Still waiting to play my match against GI.

I played a Stoneforge list and forgot to put in some Wastes. Oops. Would have helped against Guli's Maze of Ith in game two

1 Batterskull
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
2 Mystic Remora
1 Mystical Tutor
2 Spell Snare
1 Time Walk
2 Qasali Pridemage
3 Trygon Predator
1 Green Sun's Zenith
3 Noble Hierarch
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Tarmogoyf
3 Swords to Plowshares
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Flooded Strand
1 Island
3 Misty Rainforest
4 Tropical Island
2 Tundra
1 Windswept Heath
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
SB: 2 Flusterstorm
SB: 4 Grafdigger's Cage
SB: 3 Nature's Claim
SB: 2 Serenity
SB: 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
SB: 1 Swords to Plowshares
SB: 2 Tormod's Crypt

Here's my deck

2 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Island
4 Underground Sea
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
4 Mana Drain
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Brainstorm
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mana Crypt
1 Flooded Strand
1 Gifts Ungiven
3 Swords to Plowshares
3 Tundra
1 Flusterstorm

SB: 4 Leyline of the Void
SB: 2 Yixlid Jailer
SB: 1 Swords to Plowshares
SB: 3 Serenity
SB: 1 Kataki, War's Wage
SB: 1 Balance
SB: 1 Misdirection
SB: 1 Flusterstorm
SB: 1 Tormod's Crypt

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Round one against evouga:

Game one: We fought over his early Ancestral. I played a Drain and a FOW and he only had a FOW. From there, I dropped a Jace and generated enormous card advantage before beating him with his own Forbidden Orchard tokens and Snapcaster Mage.

Game two: I didn't have much to bring in against him (anyone else with ideas?), so I just threw in my 4th STP and a Misdirection. He mulled to four and I kept a sketchy six. His hand was actually quite broken--mox, mox, mox, tinker --> Blightsteel. I didn't have a FOW, but I did fortunately have STP in my opening seven. Again I generated enormous card advantage (from LoA this time) before assembling Vault/Key.

Fun games, though his deck didn't take off either game. Thanks, evouga.

I won 2-0 against evouga, I'll post a story/decklist later. Eastman: I'll have cockatrice up and running quite a bit in the next few days. Just log on whenever you have any free time and we'll hopefully get our match played in the next 2 days.

I'll be on cockatrice tonight and this weekend, so I know evouga and I will find some time to play. Maybe Eastman could do the same so he could play our second round game too.

I've been on cockatrice the past few nights, but evouga hasn't been around. I'll keep cockatrice open the next few days and into the weekend whenever I'm free and we'll get this match done.

Well let me know if you have some time tonight. I'll be hanging around cockatrice. Friday night *may* work, but unlikely.

That was completely my fault. I was on call and couldn't get an hour off. How about tonight? When are you free?

Are they metallic on the front or the back? I assume clear in the front, shiny back?

Does anyone have any experience with the KMC metallic blue deck protectors? I'm thinking about buying a bunch of those and some KMC perfect fits for my decks.

Specific questions:
1. Do they fit with the perfect fits?
2. Can you see through the METALLIC KMC sleeves? I would hate to buy them for all of my decks only to find out that I can play Delver of Secrets and other flip cards. This is an important issue. I do have some of the KMC Super Orange sleeves and you can see through them. I would like to avoid that.

Thanks.

Or we could all just play cockatrice for free. For someone with substantial time commitments (and thus no real way to "make money" from playing on MTGO), the pros of paying cash for fake cards (which cannot be cashed out very easily, from what I understand) are clearly outweighed by the cons. I really don't understand why MTGO is so popular when you can already play online for free. If I were a new player, I think cockatrice would be the way to go.

Any vintage events on site? We could really use some...and would consider going to the event if so.

I'm on right now if you're around.

I'll play

I'll play!

I took storm down in three games. Control vs. control mirror (i.e. the match took over an hour!) that came down to a fight over Sensei's Divining Top in the final game which ended in me Draining his FOW to fuel a massive Yawgmoth's Will.

I took down boggyb in 2 games. I assembled Vault/Key very early in each game. So it goes.

Why Lava Dart over Fire/Ice?