Hello there.

I am pleased to see that other people are trying out Jori as well. I was playing with it for a while now in practice rooms and I got to similar conclusions. Free or cheap spells are great, obviously. Proactive cards seem to be a lot better here then random counterspells. SCM is great, but enough is enough. I wanted to draw Jori relatively often, so I am playing three (probably too much, but it is blue, so whatever).

That being said, my decklist is a bit different. I am playing Jori in a Pyromacer Therapy shell.

4 Young Pyromacer
2 Snapcaster Mage
3 Jori En, Ruin Diver

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Dig Through Time
4 Gitaxian Probe
2 Preordain
4 Gush
3 Lightning Bolt
3 Cabal Therapy

2 Dack Fayden

4 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will

1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus

13 lands:

1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine
1 Island
3 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
5 blue fetches

Cabal Therapy is a great card with Pyro, and good with Jori too, for being cheap or free to cast. It also gives me maindeck access to more disruption than just 8 counters against fast combo like DPS, Belcher or Tezz, where this kind of deck usually struggles. I am playing all five moxen, which seems strange for a Pyromacer deck, but I thought that if nothing else, they cantrip with Jori, and they help a lot with casting both Jori and Dack on turn 2. Lots of turn one Pyromancers too. Dack is great in this deck, he pitches away additional moxen or lands from gush. I went down on lands due to full set of moxen. I am also playing both Strip and Library, becouse of pure greed. Forth Misstep is to protect guys from Bolt or Plow, but it is also useful against storm or opposing Missteps on your Therapies for example.

When this deck wins, it has like a milion cards in hand. Once you get Jori online she really pulls you ahead, slowly but surely. I found her excellent against slow blue decks, Mentor, other Pyros. In most fast combo matchups I cut her for hate. Same with shops. I don't know what to do against oath, becouse the matchup is so bad that I don't even care to have cages in a board (prefer crypts and leylines for both dredge and DPS).

People keep to mention that part quite a lot. While it obviously makes no sense, I don't understand why this is such a big problem. It is just another superweapon, they wanted to make it look more powerful than the others. Granted, they could have made it a bit more sensible, but honestly, Star Wars has more in common with fantasy than science fiction, so I don't have a problem with it. For me, practical effects are way better in making the movie more believable than trying to explain magic (like the prequels). That is one of the major reasons why I think The Force Awakens is great.

Hi!

I'm maciek1618033 on MTGO (not maciek16180, that is an old account ). I'm playing Vintage and Modern. The clan invite would be appreciated.

Hello everybody!

My name is Maciek (from Poland) and I'm currently working on my master's degree in computer science. I have been playing Magic for about 6-7 years now, but I got interested in Vintage just recently, thanks to Randy Buehler's VSL. I was hooked immediately after watching the first few episodes, but I wasn't ready to make an investment and buy cards (I'm talking MTGO here, the paper format is out of the question ). So I started with Legacy and it was super fun until they banned Dig Through Time.

Meanwhile, the Bloom Titan deck has arisen in Modern. I thought I wasn't interested in that format, but I liked this kind of land-toolkit-combo deck, so I bought it. It turned out that the deck really suits my playstyle and I have been winning quite a bit in online 8-man events. So much so in fact, that after a month of playing Bloom I used earned tickets to buy most of the cards I needed for Vintage. Selling the remains of my Legacy collection did the rest.

So here we go, after being interested in Vintage and tracking tournaments results and format evolution for about a year now, I finally have my Vintage deck. Right now, I have been playing for not much more than a week. It is a ton of fun (although still pretty intimidating). I try to get better in piloting Grixis Control, becouse this is a deck that I wanted to play the most.

It is really great to be here!

Cheers,
maciek16180