Top 16 decklists here: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/vintage-premier-2015-10-25

Thanks for sharing.  Top 16 lists are now up

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/vintage-premier-2015-10-25

I've had several games where I've just sidestepped having to deal with the cage/priest and won by hard casting Dromoka and swinging for a few turns.  Cannot be countered is a thing.

Great letter. Magic online needs to be able to handle infinite loops. I'm probably being naive to hope that a vintage league would gather enough players to provide a sufficient stream of opponents.  If it worKed a league would best suit my schedule.

Thanks for posting, I'm a big fan of propaganda and that, along with chalice on 1 looks like a great meta call against dredge, young pyro and mentor.  You've found a great home for this within an oath shell and since oath is one of my favourite archetypes I definitely want to give it a try.

I'm happy to see another dual that can be fetched up but I can only really see myself playing this in casual decks where I don't have the real duals/shocks.  I've played a lot with farseek and there is no downside searching one of these up with it.  But this is not something I see myself doing in eternal formats.

Congrats Rich - Thanks for posting the deck list and how you got on.  Interesting to see you ran with the Kolaghan's command over the Dack Faydan Randy was running in his build.  Clearly a lot synergy with Snapcaster and Pyromancer and the modern Grixis builds all play it. Is this meta dependant or do you think the command would still be preferred in a meta where you expect to face more shops and steel city vault? I would have thought against hate bears and mentor the command is preferred for the immediate impact.  When we played the grixis mirror on MTGO (my user name: pvanbeek) after the Vintage Daily didn't fire I was played two Dack over tutor and command.  Was tutor a win more or decisive in any of your games?

Great tournament report thanks for posting, Brian.  I've been a convert of Dromoka in Oath ever since I saw you playing her in a streamed mana drain league match.  I'm currently playing her as the only only creature main with a storm combo finish - milling my entire library the turn after she hits play and then using Memory's Journey to put yawgwill on top of the library.   The bomber man build sounds far more resilient so hope you don't mind if I take a similar build for a spin.  Interesting take on the FoW, I'll start testing with 4 and see if I share your experience of card disadvantage being an issue.

Would be great to play though 5pm EST Thursday's is starting a little late here in Europe.  Put me down for Sundays if the start is before 3pm EST.  Would be good to have an alternative if the DE doesn't fire - my modo username is pvanbeek

Well I'm glad WOTC reacted to feedback about the eternal DE's but it does not sound like they listened to it.  At first glance the payouts on the 8 man eternal DE's looked awful compared with the 8 man queues.   Then I remembered that one is SE and the other swiss with maybe more players.  If the DE fires with the minimum 8 though I for one will feel slightly hard done by that there is no booster and no QP for going 2-1.

Thanks for streaming this so those of us overseas could partake of some of the action - I watched until the wee hours live, and the rest on the vod on Sunday.  I've never been to New York - next year's tournament might just be the catalyst I need to organise a trip.

Stephen - when Power 9 was finally release on MODO I realised Vintage was the constructed format I wanted to play online. Sadly I missed the boat with paper, though intend to play in a few proxy tournaments provided they are within reasonably travel distance.  Your year in review articles were an incredible resource to let me pick up a sense of history a format I'd only really experienced tangentially up to now - the last paper vintage tournament I played in was 2002 and this was just an extended deck to which I added some restricted cards (only power was ancestral).  So I had no hesitation buying your 2003 article, which picked up where I left off - great to continue to see how the Vintage metagame evolved.

I'm only about a fifth of the way through but I have one request - is it possible to hyper link your footnotes down to the references at the end of the document, please?  These are a great resource but it takes away a bit having to scrolling down to the bottom and back up each time.  My current work around is to have two copies open at the same time, with one open at the references.

Thanks for all your writings.  I look forward to the year when Young Pyromancer was released.

This chimes with me. I've lost count the times I've settled down to watch a final of a major tournament only to witness a blowout due to mana screw.  Whereas most vintage matches I've seen that are blowouts are because one person gets to the broken things their deck is supposed to do.  

Slightly off topic but I suspect this would have the biggest impact in limited where you typically run 42.5% to 45% land.  There are so many times I have one land; mulligan to 6 and still only have one land.  Getting to see my next card and shipping it to the bottom if its not a land makes a huge difference to the odds of drawing another.  In a typical 17 deck if you mulligan to 6 with 1 land in hand the odds of your next draw being a land are 46% (16/34).  With the scry 1 its close to 73%.  Which is still pretty risky.  But with 2 land on the play, your odds of drawing a third in you first draw go from 44% to just under 70%.

So I'm definitely in favour for limited.  I'm still learning how to mulligan constructed hands, this will probably make mulligan decisions harder but ultimately makes it more interesting after the first if you do so I'm all in favour for constructed too.

Since I started playing vintage online I've played 4 preordain in pretty much every deck. I'm forced to play serum visions in modern and it a pale shadow of preordain.  Getting the card right away makes a huge difference, I'd prefer opt over serum visions if preordain was banned.  While testing grixis control I found running 4 dig and 1 cruise I'd occasionally be out of a yard to delve, so I play 3 Dig and 1 cruise alongside 3 gush. 
Personally I'd up the gush count to four, and probably try merchant scroll over mystical - less of a misstep target. 

It doesn't help that to report a bug you have to navigate a hive of menus.  For what its worth here's a direct link https://wizards.custhelp.com/app/ask/p/1713,525,1761,1762

Edit: Sorry forgot to add you need to be logged into your customer account...yet more hoops to jump through

Thanks for streaming this, and for making vod so that those not able to see it live can catch-up.

Hi, my MTGO username is pvanbeek.  I tend to join the first vintage game that gets hosted in the tournament practice room, but feel free to PM if you want to play test.

Hi I'm Patrick van Beek, I live in the UK, by day an Actuary and by night I spend too much time playing Magic online.

I've played both paper and online on and off for many years.  Paper since Revised/tail end of The Dark though took a long break since Torment apart from the occasional pre-release. Recently started attending pre-releases regularly again as my son now also plays.  I beta tested MTGO, hence the highly original pvanbeek user name and occasionally still beta test.   

The last time I played in a (paper) vintage tournament was 2001.  I think the name Vintage for Type 1 had only just been introduced. Surprised to look back at my DCI history to see that it was sanctioned, and even more surprised to see that I went 3-0.  It was at the local club so only a few pieces of power between us (I have only ancestral recall).  I really loved the oath deck even though it was pretty much 2000/2001 extended with a couple of restricted cards thrown in. Would be great to update spike weaver & feeders and triskelion to grisselbrand and power up but realistically this is only going to be on a proxy basis.

The VSL got me hooked on Vintage again and the release of Vintage masters means force of will and duals are finally at a level online I consider affordable.  Since then been playing a bit of a brew that evolved from the (old) classic online format - crucible fastbond and zuran orb to fuel landfall or banefire.  Slowly picking up the remaining pieces of power and looking forward to building some different decks (including oath) and playing in the Vintage queue's. 

I love building around new cards (currently taking infinite turns in Modern with Alesha, Living Lore and Time Stretch).  Hopefully TMD can give me some inspiration how to best brew in Vintage, and perhaps as a way to get in touch with any UK players to play some proxy paper Vintage.