"This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions."

Lame.  I'll take a stab and say it involves instructions on how to utilize a penis?

Hey Meandeck, you guys might want to check this out before the tournament:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC4NyO1gUqU

My friend said it helped him totally wreck his group game after LARP night.

There's a Paintshopped line over "Retards United" and the text "Meandeck" added in below it.  This is to subtly say that Meandeck are a bunch of retards.  Also, Doug Linn was said to be the female Asian in the picture.  It works because his last name is "Linn" and equating a man with a female is a jab at his masculinity.  Also, the background color is pink.

Come on man, we're Magic players not comedians.  Are you here to trash talk or psychoanalyze?

Smennen looks smooth in his bow tie, but who's the girl?  I didn't know Meandeck even knew any girls.

60 cards:


serum powder
island
island
island
island
island
island
serum powder
island
island
island
island
island
island
serum powder
island
island
island
island
island
island
serum powder
island
mox jet
mox sapphire
Lion's Eye Diamond
Black Lotus
Demonic Tutor
leyline of the void
helm of obedience
City of Traitors
lotus petal
Mana Cypt
mox pearl
mox emerald
leyline of the void
helm of obedience
island
Simian Spirit Guide
Rite of Flame
Rite of Flame
Mox Ruby
leyline of the void
helm of obedience
island
Mana Vault
Sol Ring
Simian Spirit Guide
Simian Spirit Guide
leyline of the void
helm of obedience
island
Elvish Spirit Guide
Elvish Spirit Guide
Elvish Spirit Guide
Elvish Spirit Guide
leyline of the void
helm of obedience
island
Simian Spirit Guide

Is that even true though?  I've been playing my sol ring at my shop every Saturday and no one says it's banned.  They even allow 4x Prosperity.

Troy_Costisick and all the rest of the Smmennenites need to stop attacking a legitimate format that is far more fun and better balanced than losing to Tendrils of Agony or Morphling for the hundredth damn time.

I get what you're trying to do here, but it's not helping this tragedy of a thread.  Verbal warning for spam/trolling.  -DA

Am I incorrect on this?  Vintage is a distortion of the game and totally not what Richard Garfield had in mind when he designed it.  The game is played totally without an attack step, unless you're casting Mana Drain I guess.


You just copied and pasted the original post, replacing "Legacy" with "this thread."  Do you think we're dumb?


Legacy exists because it gives people like me, who can't afford duals and blue cards, with a chance to compete even at the highest levels with whatever deck I feel.  I've had lots of success with my mono black discard and mono green land destruction, which both require 0 nonbasics and only a few really expensive cards (damn Birds..)

Honestly though if I wanted to flip a coin and wait 20 minutes while my opponent took his first turn every match I'd play Vintage.  At least Legacy isn't over turn one every game.  No thanks, I'll stick to my Dwarven-Charbelcher deck, I win like every week with it and I don't need fancy duels or moxes to do it.

I didn't even know LSV had a team, I thought he was a one man army!  Are you affiliated with Team EPIC or is "Epic Report" non-punny?  Your link says you're from CA so probably not.

Good job though bro, list looks solid.

I had a development seminar about an hour from Manila start this same day... Really sucks.

I will definitely make the next one.  The only MTG I do up here in Baguio is FMNs...

Hival and I have already begun testing.  Meandeck will break yet another format.

Thats awesome man, exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks!

Like two weeks ago I went to an FNM in NYC.  I had this pretty sick monored sligh deck I've been testing and I'm 2-0-1 going into the last round and I get paired up, which doesn't matter much to me since I can still win and have a shot at the $50 prize.  I actually really need to win, since I recently lost my job and haven't been able to afford food for my cat Snuffles for like two weeks.  My last five dollars were used on getting into the tournament.  My own stomach is rumbling when I sit down across from this 24ish asian-looking dude who looks more like a stock broker than a magic player.  Oh yeah he was wearing a suit and tie too.

He immediately asks if I know who he is, which is strange to me because I've never seen this dude in my life.  When I reply that I don't he offers me a foil miscut german Grozoth to concede to him.  I consider this seriously for like 10 seconds, since this would actually complete my set of miscut german foil Grozoths, but the need to feed myself and my family outweighs this.  He seems to get really irritated when I refuse and then takes the card and tears it in half right in front of me, along with enough guru islands to hardcast the damn thing.

By this point I'm really thrown off and confused.  I roll the die and get a 19.  He looks behind my shoulder and says "holy shit, Steve Menendian's here."  I look back, obviously excited, but all I see are a bunch of very large men with red rulers measuring cannon shots for Warhammer.  When I turn around the die is on 20, which is strange because I never heard it roll, but he insists he did.  I give him the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to bad luck.

He's on the play and takes like five minutes before playing a forest, declares that it comes into play untapped, and suspends a guy.  On my turn I play my mountain and say go.  On his turn, he drops a land, again stating that it comes into play untapped, and contemplates for awhile.  He then says he is attacking with his Baloth, which incidentally still has five counters on it.  I tell him it is still suspended, which seems to irritate him a lot, and he just plays a creature and says go.

This is actually where things got kind of sketchy.  After he draws a card for his turn, he tells me he forgot about the Suspend counters for the last two turns.  I tell him yeah, thats fine, but he keeps arguing and says he actually suspended it four turns ago.  I count his two lands and tell him thats impossible.  He then declares his Baloth as attacking, so I call a judge over.  He asks the judge if he knows who he is and when the judge says no, he yells out "I'm the fucking Legacy champion" or something like that.  He then asks to go to the bathroom and gets up and walks over to the counter.  He buys a couple of Yugioh boosters and then just walks out of the store.

Really weird guy.

Yes.

This is coming up soon.  I'm definitely coming, since I have to defend my double title.  Who else is swinging by?

Does anyone know anything about the Magic scene in the Philippines, especially Vintage?  I'll be living there for awhile and would like to know what formats are played, in what areas, and how large the events are.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TES pwns.

Nah, Dave Price as in the Rochestarian Survival player.  Same name, different people.

Top 8:

Zach Tartell with Enchantress
Bryant Cook with TES
Hatfield with Aluren
Dave Price with RGBSA
James Mankins with Blue Skies
Brandon Lepage with 4c Grow
Anwar with Red Death
Kyle Dargan with Psychatog

Enchantress lost to TES in the semifinals.

// Lands
    1  Bayou

// Creatures
    4  Elvish Spirit Guide
    4  Simian Spirit Guide

// Spells
    1  Cruel Bargain
    1  Yawgmoth's Will
    1  Yawgmoth's Bargain
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Mana Vault
    1  Sol Ring
    1  Chrome Mox
    1  Mox Sapphire
    4  Infernal Tutor
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Infernal Contract
    4  Chromatic Sphere
    4  Chromatic Star
    4  Dark Ritual
    1  Black Lotus
    4  Culling the Weak
    4  Diabolic Intent
    4  Land Grant
    1  Tendrils of Agony
    1  Lion's Eye Diamond
    1  Lotus Petal
    4  Cabal Ritual
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Ancestral Recall

I goldfished this list 10 times and killed turn one every time.

Edit: updated list

aw snap, cut the mox for a star

Fixed - Godder.

Someone leaked our tech!

What advantage does Spirit Guide have over something like Rite of Flame?  No Mind's Desire?  Also, I'm a huge fan of Brainstorm in basically anything with blue mana.  Its pretty good.

Why Lightning Bolt?  Spirit Guide blocks Meddling Mage all day...

If there are no Vintage tournaments in your area, hold your own.  You don't have to "convince" a card store to hold them for you, just pay a share to the store and they will be glad to lend the space.  You can't really say it won't work unless you try.

If weekly tournaments are something you're looking for, thats a really tough thing for any format.  In Syracuse, there is usually about 10 people for any given event.  When I stopped by Neutral Ground in NYC the week of New Years, there were 4 teams for a two headed giant sealed deck tournament.  The big events are really what get people excited, set one up!

Printing official proxies would be the sanctioning of fake cards in Magic, something Wizards simply cannot do.

Printing them in legal form would cause their value to drop considerably, but depending on availability, would probably still be out of reach of the average player.  Buying a $50 mox is still impossible when you need five of them.

Printing too many would be the same thing as printing proxies.

The whole thing is a dumb idea.

Yikes, you're right.  I'll get on that.

Fixed.

For anyone interested, I wrote a program to determine the chance of finding Bazaar before you mulligan to zero, confirming 93%.  If you're familiar with Java, check it out:

Now, what would happen if I were to physically erase or marker over the expansion symbol?  Modifying cards isn't generally against the rules.  Does this change whether or not the card has an expansion symbol?

Except for that one time.

Have you tried Remand?

This deck gets beat hardcore by 401 Thrull Champion.dec

I shall be there to add more pieces to my power set.  Is it worth it to purchase a bye?

Nice job, always a pleasure Mr. Feinstein.  We shall no doubt meet again.