You have to figure that with the price already so high there's much less room for movement in Moxen prices, so I think that makes sense.

Not only is it proxy-free, it is all black-bordered.  It's so bad; in one deck I was toying with I was considering Defense Grid in the board, but could only play two since my third one was white-bordered. 

Yes, this is sanctioned.

We're working on that.  As soon as the date is finalized, I'm sure this will be one of the first places to know.

I have no doubt I will be scrubbing out of the main event early, so this seems like a good plan.

Exactly.  Some Oath decks, at least, have a handful of main deck answers to her outside of just counterspells (allowing for the existence of Cavern here), so you just have to be patient and hope you don't get 2/X'd out of the game before you can dig into one.

I'm a long time Oath player, and I am not pleased that she exists, but I'll adapt.  It's not as if playing Abrupt Decay (to cite one example) maindeck is a bad thing in Vintage anyway.  Rarely are you at a loss for targets.

Blaine is a real gent and was a pleasure to play.  Buried Ruin turned out to be the difference maker in our match, which is probably not something that has been typed all too often, I imagine.   

Videos are up:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ouC3y53nl7JsEXJR110QCRPhjBFuecc

Pro story, I really enjoyed it.  I got a chance to BS with Blaine some this weekend.  Good dude.  Though he was my first loss on the day, mostly due to that exact same Buried Ruins.  Absent that land, I might have had a chance to pull the match out. >.<

I definitely prefer DTT in my deck, but sadly the only time I got to play it this weekend it got Mana Drained, which was unfortunate.  Luckily, my opponent didn't have any broken uses for all that mana, at least.  

I played against U/R Delver three times this past weekend (Caveat: I am a "full time" Oath player, so bear in mind with this anecdote that I probably had an at least slightly favorable match up), and while they tried to bury me under an avalanche of card advantage, I found the real threat in the deck (at least against me) was Young Pyromancer.  I won all three matches, and the only games I lost were to an early YP followed by tons of cantrips, which resulted in me getting beaten down by a lot of tokens before Gris/DSC (Yes, I know Dack Fayden is a card, but so is an early Tinker) could hit the table and turn things around.  And even then, I was too low on life for Gris to make a difference.  TC was effective, but without YP and a butt ton of elementals on the board, it didn't feel like enough card advantage to handle one massive fatty.

I think TC is good, but I don't think it needs restricting yet.  As I feel most people are saying, let the format sort it out for itself for a bit before doing anything.

I would wait for confirmation from Nick, but my understanding is that the coverage will wind up on the youtubes at some point.

If I have anything to say about it, yes. 

Had a great time, because Nick Coss is a goddamned champion.  6-3 for the day on Oath, much better than last year's 1-3 drop debacle.  Getting to sling a lot of expensive cardboard with other grown ups is always a good time.  I hope to see you all again next year.  I would love to see us top this year's already amazing turnout!

Edit:  The best part of the day?  I didn't have to play against Drege even once.   

GenCon attendance is one of the few items left on my geek cred card as yet unpunched.  And it makes me sad.  Even though I no longer play craptons of different games anymore, it seems like if you are in the Nashville area and love Vintage, it's worth giving it a shot, because I have rarely heard bad things about GenCon.

Only a few more days to go!  Who's ready?

I would like to say it'd be nice if this weekend got mentioned on the mothership, though. 

The one thing I really agree with in the article is that chasing "the best deck" in Vintage is a fool's errand.  The variance between one deck and the next is often fairly small, and I do agree that your best bet is to play a deck that you know intimately, rather than switching because you heard Deck X won the last Vintage tournament that was reported on.

Aw, boo, that looks really fun but I will still be at work then.    Looking forward to a full report!

Still working on my power/duals, just so I have the ability to play on line when I want.  Not interested in speculating on the market, just need enough to play.

I have felt for a while that the best way to add Vintage cards to the mix would be to print an extremely limited quantity from the Reserved List (maybe doubling the total available or something), and sell the packs for charity, directly to the consumer.  Limit each address to five packs apiece or something to keep the SCG's of the world from cornering the market.  Give the money to Child's Plan, Children's Hospital of Seattle, whatever.

Vintage (and Legacy for duals) fans will buy them up at $50+ per pack, more cards go into circulation, the secondary market doesn't take a significant hit, especially if you use new art which WotC has already paid for.  We get more people to shuffle up with, sick kids/research hospitals/whatever get a crapton of cash, Wizards get great press that costs them nothing beyond the cost to print and ship, everyone wins.

I might actually get to shuffle them up for this.  Very excited.

There are prizes for the Top 8 non-powered finishers.  Just sayin' is all.

Rooms are still TBA, but most everything else is up:  http://www.cardtitan.com/eternal_weekend

This is a sanctioned event, so no proxies, sorry.

Exactly.  It's not a Vintage card.  That doesn't mean it won't be tinkered around with in some big mana Planeswalker deck in Modern or possibly even Standard to see if it would fly there (Urza land decks with Karn or something, maybe?), but it's not getting there at this level.

Unless you're going to give him haste *and* get Eldrazi Conscription on him, I just don't see any reason to get excited.  And even then, probably not.

Certainly not in Vintage, anyway.  On the kitchen table, with beers with my buddies?  You best your heiney I am dropping meteors on someone and laughing my face off about it.   

Unlike a StP, PtE, etc. etc. etc.?

I don't love the art at all, but because it is foil and people love to pimp out their decks, it will probably be a tough get.

This deck looks like it could be a lot of fun to play.  I may set aside my Oath shenanigans and try it out, to see if I like it.