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Hello everyone, long time reader/first time poster here. I have been playing Vintage online since we acquired our full set of power, and I have mostly been trying out variations of Gush Tendrils. I briefly switched to Gitaxian Long for a bit, but found it to be less resilient, and since there are alot of control decks in the daily events online, I figured Gush was a better place to be. I tried a version with Mystic Remora and more counterspells, but found that diluted the deck quite a bit as far as being able to go off on fewer resources. So after a little research, I found a list on mtgtop8 from January of this year that had what I wanted: Gush and Dark Ritual. After playing with Ritual for a bit, it not only made going off more consistent, but allowed me to be able to go off on fewer resources. After some tweaking, this is where I am currently at:
3 Underground Sea 3 Tropical Island 4 Misty Rainforest 2 Scalding Tarn 1 Island 1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Black Lotus 1 Lotus Petal 1 Mana Crypt 5 Moxen 1 Memory Jar 1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 1 Chain of Vapor 1 Mystical Tutor 4 Dark Ritual 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Rebuild/Hurkyl's Recall 1 Gifts Ungiven 4 Gush 4 Force of Will
1 Ponder 3 Preordain 1 Thoughtseize/Duress 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Time Walk 1 Demonic Tutor 2 Regrowth 1 Timetwister 1 Tinker 1 Yawgmoth's Will 1 Tendrils of Agony 1 Mind's Desire
1 Necropotence 1 Fastbond
SB: 3 Energy Flux 1 Rebuild 2 Nature's Claim 1 Forest 2 Tormod's Crypt 3 Ravenous Trap 1 Flusterstorm 1 Duress 1 Dismember
I'm still not sold on Energy Flux being the card I want against Shops, it's already kind of slow at 3 mana, and it usually costs 4 or 5 mana, and I just don't think you have that kind of time in the matchup. Maybe Trygon is where I want to be, every time i've had it post board against them it feels like they can't ever beat it. 5 cards might seem like alot for Dredge in a Tendrils deck, but you sometimes need a bit more setup than TPS or the Long decks, so I just like having more cushion against them. The Blightsteel has been superb for me, and I would never think of moving it to the SB. I have yet to Tinker for Jar, so i'm not actually sure if it's good or not, but it doesn't take up a ton of space and I can see certain situations where I want access to it. I've been looking for ways to shore up the control matchup post board, and it seems like I would have to cut down on the Shop/Dredge hate to make room for more Duresses, I could also see cutting the random Dismember, as it has rarely come up.
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