So I just found out that you can announce the cheaper half of a fuse or split spell and then actually use the the more expensive half or fuse both halfs together.

In other words, you can play a fused Far/Away for 1 mana with 2 charge counters

Beck/Call
Breaking/Entering
Boom/Bust

These cards have game ending potential as early as turn 2 for just 1 mana.

Matt that's exactly what I intended; a disengenous post meant to mislead people.  Wastelands, Leonin Relic Warders, Ingot Chewers; that deck is terrible against Shops!

Death and taxes comes up as #9 on mtggoldfish meta breakdown. 3.1% of the metagame. Additionally, the hate creatures in the deck are only a portion of the total strategy. More card slots are devoted to "beat down" (Stoneforge Mystic, Serra Avenger, Brimaz)

If you read my post you'll see that I am noting the differences in Vintage hate bears deck and decks like death and taxes; Vintage hate bears is not very good against opposing "fair" decks such as modern legal decks.  Legacy death n taxes has more impactful cards for "fair" metagames (Such as Stoneforge, Brimaz, and Serra Avenger)

Vintage hate bears has won and will will Vintage tournaments. But I'm not really interested in arguing with anyone. As someone who has piloted hate bears, I can say hate bears is a good Vintage deck specifically for the role it plays in keeping Shops in check.  I'll also double down on my statement that hate type decks in Vintage get away with a lot that modern/legacy decks cannot.  Staxless stax lost to a turn one Raging Goblin, remember?  That sort of thing is a recurring element of Vintage.

What else isn't remotely true?

The hate bears decks in vintage tend to be hyper focused. For example, last year around this time I was playing RW, which kills workshop decks by the way. I never had such an easy time beating Rich Shay than I did when I was on RW bears and he on Shops. Anyway, even though I had great game against Shops and 50/50 against the rest of the meta, I was paired against a random modern deck and was just absolutely destroyed.  I could not stop the barrage of Lingering Souls.  I'm assuming a legacy version doesn't lose to Lingering Souls, but probably will lose to a Shop deck.

If hate bears "kills" the top performing deck, Shops, then it should definitely be viewed as a major part of the metagame. I acknowledge that not many people play the deck, but the ones that do are keeping real life shop pilots out of top 8s. If more people picked up the deck, we'd probably see a decline in Workshop top 8s.

Hrishi,

Hate bears does show a unique attribute of Vintage. There is no other format in magic that a hate type deck can be good.  A hate bears deck is stocked full of creatures that literally see no play outside of Vintage because of unique abilities that are only relevant vs. decks like Workshops, Storm, and Dredge

A financial section with price ticker. Maybe someone to write articles about financial speculation once a month or so.

I don't think expensive instant and sorceries is the best route, because a 7 mana spell takes 7 turns of putting counters on BiaB.  That's not a winning strategy in Vintage.  I think its only practical application is getting through Spheres.  It will probably end up a fringe unplayable like Izzet Guildmage. 

5 years ago, there was 6 million magic players in 75 countries. 5 years ago, there was 140,000 magic online accounts. There could easily be 100,000 Legacy players

Yeah, but paying for (1) + (x) is easier than paying (2)(u) + (x).  You can play any instant or sorcery for 1 mana.

You can play a Tinker for 1 mana at instant speed. This could be really good against Workshops. 

Andy,

In addition to instant messaging, another upgrade would be additional ways to customize your profile.  For example:  With the player run league that I intend to run again, it would be nice to be able to click on the users name to see their profile.  Once in profile, one may be able to see MTGO user name and availability.  Should be optional to the user, of course.

Top notch counterfeits are impossible for reserved list cards. First they'd have to figure out how to counterfeit a card in general (they're not even close yet) and then they'd have to figure out how to give them a played/worn look.  I always shoot for heavy played cards because it's s guaranteed authentic magic card.

Oh as far as I know, the intent is to have a weak US dollar in order to promote US exports...

I think a huge upgrade would to have instant messaging so you can quickly communicate with people. (For Player run events and things like that)

So I picked up some Academy Rectors, Intuitions, Helm of Obediences, etc.  Stuff like that.

What's the speculation on In the Eye of Chaos?  It's at $30, which is a lot lower than I expected.

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Conch Horn looks great for 30 cents!

So the dual lands are spiking, but what about moxes? It makes sense that there would be more demand for dual lands initially, but moxes might go under the radar a bit before they get their own big spike.

Also what about something like Phyrexian Negator? It's a 50 cent reserved list card that's unlikely to see play

Is Mana Crypt on the reserved list? I don't think it is; it's not in any set and there are no "special mentions" on the list that I'm aware of

     
Weatherlight
Rarity:   R
Card Type:   Instant
Description:   Regenerate target creature. Gain control of that creature.




So with this card, can I just gain control of a creature? Or does it have to regenerate?

It says in the article $10 per pack

I usually side out cards I can't cast under graveyard lockdown: Troll, Chancellor, Dragon, Dread Return, 2 Ichorids

Leave in Powder and Bridge

Thanks. There would be more honestly but I've been taking a little break from playing.  It's a great deck.

For whatever reason I've been unable to "quote" people on here. Not on a MacBook, iPhone, iPad, or PC. Are you manually doing it?

I have similar experience, winning with the alternative strategy, but obviously if they don't have any graveyard hate, the dredge plan is just faster than a turn 5 kill.  For that reason I always leave some dredge plan in with the alternative plan and more often than not it leads to a faster win. The disruption is nice, especially Sanctity, but with a slower plan you're giving the opponent more opportunity to beat it.

One thing I've come to realize is that while the transformational board (Dark Depths) makes perfect sense in theory, the reality is that you're putting yourself on a slower clock in a lot of games in which the opponent can't deal with dredge anyway.  I don't think Dredge actually loses too many games to dredge hate; I think the bulk of losses come from anomalies such as turn 1 Vault/Key.

Even though I think it's the best deck, I haven't been playing any Dredge in events lately.  My thought is that the more people playing Dredge and doing well with it, the more people will be prepared for it come Champs.  The deck's biggest strength is that a lot of people don't play against it regularly, so their plans aren't finely tuned.  I tried to talk Josh Potucek out of playing Dredge this past weekend for that reason; he didn't listen and he won.  People's sideboards just gained +1 Dredge hate.

Does anyone else feel the way I do about saving Dredge for the big events?

The Eldrazi deck could just pack Leyline of Sanctity and have immediate game against combo. Void/Chains are as slow as Seer.

Yeah I'm not ready to start it, so I deactivated deck registration for now. I need to take a little break.

I originally voted no, but I would now vote 'yes'. 

Thanks, joel

Finals will be Islandswamp vs. me

I'll fire off the next season next weekend.  Submit your decklist: deck registration

The pairings will be formatted differently.  I think we can work with Ryan's suggestion and play each other once.  I'll type something up within the next few days and in the meantime, ideas would help.. Thanks

I felt 3 matches per week was pretty good.  Maybe a series of games vs. 1 or 2 opponents would be better than three individual matches?

If it wasn't for this league, I wouldn't be playing Dredge.  I'm thoroughly convinced it has the most potential out of all the Vintage decks.  I started out good in the P9 tournament and it's just something I'm going to build on.  I have more confidence with this deck than any version of blue.