I'm on as Triple_S  and I play mostly Legacy, Limited, and occasionally standard.  And the odd EDH/100 Card Singleton also.

I'm planning on playing this time out, barring something happening (like my brother asking me to help him move that day). 

Only ~10 days or so before I drive out, should be a great time.

I will be there Wed-Sunday morning..not playing in events but up for hanging out.

At this point my plan is to mostly hit the dealers tables, artists room, and maybe loiter a bit around the vintage area to catch up with folks.  I play a lot of D&D these days (and EDH) so its looking to be my first MTG-free GenCon.


Drop me a PM here or on FB if you want to try to catch up.

It is looking like this this will be my first trip back to GenCon in nearly 7 years and I just wanted to gauge how many of the 'old guard' would be going also.  It would be great to catch up with some of the old Meandeck, Short Bus, Canadian, or California guys from back in the day.  Anyone making the trip?

Decklist incoming!

4 Polluted Delta
4 Underground Sea
3 Tropical Island
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Wasteland

Creatures:

4 Dark Confidant
4 Trinket Mage
3 Phyrexian Dreadnaught
1 Inkwell Leviathan

Spells:

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Stifle
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Berserk
1 Tinker
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Echoing Truth
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Misdirection
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
1 Pithing Needle
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Illusionary Mask
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet

Sideboard:

4 Smother
3 Mindbreak Trap
3 Oxidize
3 Relic of Progenitus
1 Echoing Truth
1 Trickbind

Thanks again for everyone making the trip down for the tournament.  I hope you guys enjoyed the Capital Ale House after the event, I'm hoping to do a mini-report on this in the next day or so.

I think this is going to be the first Vintage tournament I've played in about 5-6 years, coming out of retirement ftw.

This tournament should be good times, I'm definitely looking forward to it.

Off the top of my head, a few of the items up for auction:

UL Mox Ruby
Mishra's Workshop
3 x Ill. Mask
3 x P Dreadnought
One of each dual land (in a set)

With any luck Saturday will be the 'rebirth' of the Richmond vintage scene.  Allowing 15 proxies definitely helps out those of us who unloaded their power several years ago.

You beat me to it.  In one of our large bi-monthly EDH games someone eventually accumulates a fuckton of tokens (I remember someone killing almost the entire table with a swarm of HUGE saproling tokens generated with Rith).  The Leyline is a measure of control just to keep me alive long enough to start recurring Magister Sphinx or Mindslaver....or to get the Sensei/Future Sight engine going.

This is the EDH deck I'm disassembling for the time being...its fun for the player, but not the opponents.  Its not optimally built (sub academy ruins and tol academy for 2 lands):

General:  Sharuum the Hegemon

Creatures
Magister Sphinx
Inkwell Leviathan
Sanctum Gargoyle
Vedalken Engineer
Sphinx Sovereign
Sower of Temptation
Gold Myr
Leaden Myr
Silver Myr
Sphinx Summoner
Trinket Mage
Soul Warden
Faerie Machanist
Solemn Simulacrum
Empress Galina
Myr Retreiver
Vedalken Archmage
Etherium Sculptor
Relic of Progenitus
Scroll Rack
Feldon's Cane
Voltaic Key
Blinkmoth Urn
Darkwater Egg
Cloud Key
Ivory Tower
Proteus Staff
Lotus Bloom
Chromatic Sphere
Scrabbling Claws
Riptide Replicator
Tsabo's Web
Courier's Capsule
Mindslaver
Charcoal Diamond
Marble Diamond
Skullclamp
Conjurer's Bauble
Wayfarer's Bauble
Sensei's Diviniing Top
Etherium Astrolabe
Executioner's Capsule
Serum Tank

Instants:
Gifts Ungiven
Fact or Fiction
Mystical Teachings
Impulse
Lat-Nam's Legacy
Condemn
Telling Time
Thirst for Knowledge
Congregate
Swords to Plowshares

Sorceries:
Tendrils of Agony
Yawgmoth's Will
Reverse the Sands
Ritual of Restoration
Demonic Tutor
Brilliant Ultimatum
Fabricate
Roar of Reclamation

Enchantments
Leyline of Singularity
Future Slight

Mana:
Seat of the Synod
Tundra
Thran Dynamo
Darkwater Catacombs
Mystic Gate
Tainted Field
Arcane Sanctum
Orzhov Basilica
Secluded Glen
Dimir Aqueduct
Darksteel Citadel
Miren, the Moaning Well
Fellwar Stone
Underground Sea
Darksteel Ingot
Tainted Isle
Caves of Koilos
Mind Stone
Temple of the False God
Bad River
Skycloud Expanse
Sky Diamond
Sol Ring
Azorius Chancery
Vault of Whispers
Volrath's Stronghold
Scrubland
Talisman of Progress
Talisman of Dominance
3 Islands
2 Swamps
2 Plains

chrystania/theb
holy pally/s-priest
70/70
draenor

I quit raiding since my old GM was comperable to RandomMiser in temperment...mostly farming gold waiting for wotlk to hit and getting back into MTG again (t2 and block since I sold off my juice a while ago)

We have gone w/ a slightly powered down view for our type 4 stack, eliminating a lot of the cards which just win you the game asap or take the 'fun' factor out of the game.  Gamerobber, Mindslaver, Glarecaster, and Knollspine Invocation have all hit the bin lately.

I ran into a couple of Old Ghastbark's, but always seemed to have to ability to conspire a burn trail to deal w/ it pretty quickly.

Last night was some Shadowmoor drafting at FNM and I ended up with a pretty sick (but creature light) mono-r deck.  First pick pack 1 was a Firespout...the green I wanted to accelerate my deck was largely cut off (I ended up with one duo and one mauraders)...but the red kept coming.  My removal suite was....retarded:
1 Firespout
1 Jaws of Stone
3 Puncture Bolt
1 Burn Trail
2 Power of Fire
1 Furystoke Giant

Along the way I picked up a foil Painter's Servant to help fuel my Horde of Boggarts.  The downside about the deck is I had very few answers to Shield of the Oversoul, my only game losses on the evening were to a turn 3 Duo, turn 4 Shield.

Overall a pretty fun evening though picking lots of quality stuff for the new EDH deck I'm building (Sek'Kuar).

not to interrupt the Mask discussion...but another possibly bad deck

Where is the Prohibit?!?

4 FoW
4 Mana Drain
2 Mana Leak/Miscalculation
1 Misdirection
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Back to Basics
3 Intuition
4 Accumulated Knowledge
1 Deep Analysis
3 Trinket Mage
3 Painter's Servant
2 Grindstone
1 Pithing Needle
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Oona

5 Moxen
1 Sol ring
1 Lotus
1 Academy
9 Islands
6 Fetchlands

The combo match up for this deck is near unwinnable as its currently constructed.  Here is another more 'standard' V Masque that began the discussion initiallyl..but again I think it needs 4 x Duress/Thoughtseize.  The lack of Brainstorm means FoW isn't a really viable option IMHO

4 Mask
4 Naught
4 Survival
1 Ancestral
1 Time Walk
1 Squee
1 Genesis
1 Anger
1 Wonder
4 BoP
3 Wall of Roots
1 Q Ranger
4 Shapeshifter
1 Phage
1 Jailer
1 G Drake
1 Gigapede
2 X Swarm
1 Withered Wretch
1 Kataki
 
4 Fetchlands
4 bayou
2 Taiga
3 Tropical Island
2 Forest
1 Mountain
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Lotus
1 Jet
1 Sapphire
1 Emerald

Let me say first that the deck is untested.

The advantage is really against the unprepared opponent that won't be expecting something along these lines...the 'coming from left field' factor.

Earlier this year my interest in the WoW endgame came to a grinding halt...and as luck would have it some old friends got me out to Draft one friday night.  The magic bug never really leaves us...flash forward a few months and I'm playing in the SCG $5k tournament, and catching up w/ old friends like Kowal, Klep, Smmenen, and co.  Anyways, here is a little deck that Thorme, Gammadoom, and I came up with shortly after the B/R announcement.

Not your Father's Vengeur Masque

4 Mask
4 Naught
4 Survival
1 Ancestral
1 Time Walk
1 Protean Hulk
1 Carrion Feeder
1 Mogg Fanatic
1 Anger
1 Squee
1 Reveillark
1 Body Double
4 BoP
3 Wall of Roots
4 Shapeshifter
1 Viridian Zealot
1 Jailer
1 G Drake
2 Xantid Swarm
1 Kataki
 
4 Fetchlands
4 bayou
2 Taiga
3 Tropical Island
2 Forest
1 Mountain
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Lotus
1 Jet
1 Sapphire
1 Emerald

I got 3 of the 5 right...and that post was mostly in jest too.  Damn.

I'd prefer a set of restrictions like this:

Brainstorm
Merchant Scroll
Bazaar
Flash

Unrestrict
the useless stuff

SN TheTripleS (original eh?) and my one player right now is Cub Batterson (named after my dogs).

I started playing this about a week or so ago, and its a blast, and takes next to no time (and no actual money).

sigh, I downloaded MWS again b/c of this weekend.

I'm heading down the site in about an hour or so....20 min drives ftw.

Definitely looking forward to seeing a lot of old school faces this weekend.

Hmm, might be time to get the Bus fired up again..