What are your thoughts on the GAT matchup? I've been playing this deck since you posted your last(?) tournament report and I'm loving it. However, I find that GAT's heavy disruption usually leaves me sitting with a lot of mana and a fow'd draw7 or similar. The REB's/pyro's from the sideboard are useful but it's still very hard. Ideas?

Goldfish's Lich deck:

        1 Library of Alexandria
        1 Tolarian Academy
        1 Glacial Chasm
        3 Underground Sea
        4 Bayou
        3 Tropical Island
        2 Volcanic Island
        4 City of Brass
        1 Black Lotus
        1 Mox Emerald
        1 Mox Jet
        1 Mox Pearl
        1 Mox Ruby
        1 Mox Sapphire
        1 Sol Ring
        1 Mirror Universe
        1 Mana Crypt
        1 Scroll Rack
        1 Zuran Orb
        1 Dark Heart of the Wood
        1 Sterling Grove
        1 Vampiric Tutor
        1 Demonic Tutor
        1 Yawgmoth's Will
        1 Lich
        1 Mystical Tutor
        1 Ancestral Recall
        2 Impulse
        3 Brainstorm
        1 Fact or Fiction
        1 Intuition
        1 Time Walk
        1 Timetwister
        1 Time Spiral
        1 Fastbond
        1 Regrowth
        3 Forgotten Lore
        1 City of Solitude
        1 Wheel of Fortune
        2 Red Elemental Blast
        1 Enlightened Tutor
        1 Replenish
        1 Abeyance


SB:  1 Cursed Totem
SB:  3 Hydroblast   
SB:  1 Oath of Druids
SB:  1 Red Elemental Blast
SB:  2 Pyroclasm
SB:  3 Pyroblast
SB:  1 Seal of Cleansing
SB:  1 Circle of Protection: Black
SB:  1 Circle of Protection: Red
SB:  1 Abeyance

2faces plays Yawgmoth's Will from Hand
huh plays Tormod's Crypt from Hand
huh puts Tormod's Crypt to Graveyard from Play
<2faces> from hand?
<2faces> how do you play it from your hand exactly
<huh> you are a little kid man
<huh> vintage is not for amateurs like you
<2faces> haha
<System> Player Lost

I've been playing this deck for a week or so now and I really love it. Great job, guys!

I only have one question, it's about sundering vitae. I know the card seems like the perfect artifact/enchantment destruction in this deck, but how often do you actually tap more than 1 creature to reduce the mana cost? seems to me like naturalize would be a better card to fill this position with.

One question about the irc channel-  whenever I try to join it I get instantly banned, am I missing something here?
And those tournament result decks, along with the star city article gave me a good idea of what people play now.

Awesome, thanks for the quick responses!

Hi, I am trying to get back into vintage and magic in general. I played a lot of 5 or 6 years ago but sold my all cards due to lack of money. Now that my situation is better I figured I'd give the game a try again and this forum seems to be a good place to start, seeing as how bdominia is long gone... I have a few questions;

What do people use to play online, is apprentice still okay?
How come I get banned when I try to join the mirc channel?
Where can I find a good list or post of what is currently considered to be "good" decks?


Thanks in advance! Glad to be a part of the forum.

Marcus