There's something really wrong with this game if you are so excited about some basic lands.

Oath of Druids FTW.

In order to play to Vintage, we need only 2 things:

- Cards: Proxies are necessary.
- Incentive to play, besides playing for fun: Money is needed as a prize.

Give us a lot of money if we win your Tournaments, instead of pieces of paper. We will play Vintage for sure.

Why choosing at random?

Have you tried bidding for the decks (as in Invitationals)?

I didn´t think about using it in combination with other cards, only on its own.
So it´s even better than I thought 

 

It's not broken (as the top card of the library is not known, unless you cast the Faerie after the opponent casts his Future Sight  ), but it´s an autoinclude in my stack.

Most of Type4's creatures are *broken* not only for their p/t, but for their abilities, which aren't touched by this card.
Interesting, at least.

This card should be in the banned list of type4, as it´s an uncountereable "I win the game at instant speed" card.

Have you thought of a different tourney, more like one organized by WoTC, in which you would have several rounds of Legacy, and several rounds of Vintage?
Just like Worlds, but with 2 formats.
Maybe it could be too long, but you could divide it in 2 days, and organize several alternative-tourneys for those who doesn´t make the cut the first day.

You could copy the idea for some Waterbury, if it does work and if it receives positive feedback.
Or you could even create one anual Waterbury Worlds for old formats! 

Your 'Storm Returns' article at mtgchicago.com was fantastic, another one focusing on one list would be great!

Some years ago the SCG tournaments had hilarious trash-talking in the previous weeks, new tech emerging, and excellent coverage, and a lot of reports with pictures and decklists, which resulted in people attracted and lured by Vintage.

Things have changed for the worst.

Congratulations!

I hope the site won't turn into a premium one, so your articles can somehow revive the discussion about Vintage here.

Do you think that to make Vintage more interesting we should make MDrain's decks even more powerful?

I was also a fan of the WoT series, since the beginning.
As the books were getting more and more complex in their plot, the last book would have been the hardest one to write in terms of time for him, thus impossible to achieve due to his illness.

Sometimes even Force of Will isn´t enough to acomplish our goals.

Would you mind sharing the stack you used for those games?

Thanks in advance.

Is Future Sight going to be legal in this tournament?

don´t you think that all magic-pros will go to Grand Prix-Strasbourg (Block Constructed) which is on the same weekend?

Aren´t 4 Street Wraiths tailor made for a Doomsday deck?

The first ones depended on Chromatic Sphere to draw the Ancestral for the standard combo, the last ones only included one, but would be incredibly improved by including Street Wraiths. It would lead to more solutions and to even more 5card piles.

Now that stax decks are not prevalent as they used to be, a combo deck with 4Duress/Unmasks, 4FOW/BluePact could be playable again, to say the least.

My top10 picks:

10. Angel of Salvation
9. Akroma's Memorial
8.Take Possession
7.Seht's Tiger
6.Scourge of Kher Ridges
5.Barren Glory
4.Venser, Shaper Savant
3.Riddle of Lightning
2.Heartwood Storyteller
1. Spellweaver Volute
0. (Already banned) Whetwheel


EDIT: I dismissed Jhoira of the Ghitu at first, but it could be #5-6

Great news!

By the way, of all type4 writers, I think Mastriano´s ones were (are) the most entertaining ones, like this one or that one. I´m not suggesting to copy his style, but to have them as a reference.

Maybe because they are either playing faster decks abusing Will to combat other Will-centered decks, and because the other part of the Vintage community (the greatest part, by the way) has demonstrated time and time again that it´s very slow at adaptation.

That is not a good analogy. It does not have happened yet because WoTC has been careful with the unrestrictions.
Probably with the exception of Doomsday (which proved not be broken enough, in spite of the discovery of the Beacon combo by Jeek), WoTC hasn´t unrestricted cards with a high potential of creating new monster_decks, but because they were thought to be completely harmless.

And that is not the point with D.Halls. A deck casting Halls off Drains, and chaining Gifts with Gifts, and AKs with AKs is, at the very least, suspected of being able to re-restrict again Dream Halls in the very near future.

I hope you are suggesting an international one, not one with players from only the US (or Canada).

Earthcraft is already unrestricted.

Nothing.
I´m my opinion it doesn´t deserve to be on the Restricted List.

But...


It´s just that I don´t want Wizards to unrestrict (another different thing is restrictions) any card based on our opinions.
I´ve just seen the results of your poll, and the second card they want to unrestrict is one of the most powerful combo engines I´ve ever played with.


Why do you want the DCI to unrestrict something?

To shake up the format with a powerful card and make new tier1 decks with that card?

Because if the card is lame even as a 4-of, what´s the point of unrestricting it if people aren´t even going to play with it?, just for the satisfaction of making WoTC change the list?

That´s the same as asking people sometime ago to show their unveiled or possible combos with Doomsday (Desire-Beacon) while discussing for its unrestriction.
It´s never going to happen.

What about...

Unmask Spirit Guide
1B
Sorcery
You may remove a black card in your hand from the game rather than pay Unmask's mana cost. Add B to your mana pool.



Would it be too broken if the cc were 3B, and it added BB to your pool?

None of them

the black one would be insane in MeanTendrils decks

Wouldn´t it be broken as a 4-of in any deck supporting ETW (every combo/control-combo deck seems to be maindecking them right now)?

Treacherous Urge
   Instant   

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You may put a creature card from it into play under your control. If you do, it gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at end of turn.

You´re forgetting about stealing a Bosh, or a Memnarch, or a Masticore-type, or an Academy Rector, or even a Chainer!
In your opponent´s turn!

And, in the worst-case scenario, its a creature killer.