I've always liked angel for its versatility. I've definately hit time vault/key/plats/ basic island (which was extremely relivant) all in the same event. In manaless varients I'd always try to run it.

How can TPS win the tournament.  Only green creatures win TMD's.  They also have to be mainboard!  No sideboard goyfs or sillyness.

Also, your bad matchup, (Shops), can not deal with inky. Especially mono red.

            Op-Match    PL-Duel    Op-Duel   Matches
Rank    Name    Points    Win%    Win%    Win%   P/W/D/B
  1   Eric Dupuis    10   60.4167   77.7778   56.3889   4/3/1/0
  2   Chris Roberts    10   54.1667   70.0000   53.0556   4/3/1/0
  3   Pat Broderick     9   56.2500   66.6667   52.7778   4/3/0/0
  4   Micah Greenbaum     9   52.0833   66.6667   50.0000   4/3/0/0
  5   Jesse Martin     9   41.6667   66.6667   38.5354   4/3/0/0
  6   Matt MacCauley     6   70.8333   44.4444   63.3333   4/2/0/0
  7   Barry Everson     6   60.4167   55.5556   57.7020   4/2/0/0
  8   Nick Vallas     6   56.2500   40.0000   51.5909   4/2/0/0
  9   Bill Rosa     6   41.6667   50.0000   41.6667   4/2/0/0
 10   Chris Reed     4   45.8333   50.0000   43.2576   4/1/1/0
 11   Duncan Devlin     3   60.4167   28.5714   56.9444   4/1/0/0
 12   Robbie Conolly     3   52.0833   36.3636   53.0556   4/1/0/0
 13   Heather Carpentier     1   52.0833   30.0000   51.6667   4/0/1/0
 14   Andy Farias     0   54.1667   0.0000   54.1667   4/0/0/0

Another excellent turn out!  We had several people who were unable to make it, so it was definitely possible for us to hit the 17+ needed this week.  A sincere thanks to everyone who has continued to support these events.  Here's hoping we hit 17+ next week!

So I made a metagame breakdown. I only have 79 decklists, while the dci reporter master list they used for indicating who got a gameloss, which they also gave me, states 81 players. 9 people earned a gameloss for misregistering their decklist! That shocks me.

On to the actual breakdown:

27 Mana Drain decks ( 34% )

• 13 Tezzeret (1 MUC version)
• 5 Painter (2 also running Vault+Key)
• 3 Slaver (2 Strategic)
• 3 Meditate Remora
• 2 UR Landstill
• 1 Tezzeretless Tezzeret

13 Workshop decks ( 16% )

• 6 Mono Red WS Aggro (1 with Taiga for Grudge)
• 3 Mono Brown running Metalworker (1 being Affinity)
• 2 Uba Stax
• 1 5-Color Stax
• 1 Master Transmuter Slaver

9 Blue Aggro ( 11% )

• 5 Dreadnought (3 Mask/1 Dreadstill/1 Goyf)
• 3 UB Fish (1 being Faeries)
• 1 Affinity with Force of Will

7 Oath of Druids ( 9% )

• 4 Akroma&Overlord
• 3 Progenitus

7 Ritual Combo ( 9% )

• 5 TPS
• 2 Ad Nauseam

6 Ichorid ( 8% )

• 5 Manaless
• 1 Mana'd

10 Other ( 13% )

• 3 Hate (BGR, RGW, WB ManPrison)
• 3 Other Combo (Lich's Mirror, Dream Halls, Combo Elves)
• 1 Turboland
• 1 Pox
• 1 Survival Slivers
• 1 5-color-stax without Workshop

I think it is quite a good representation of where Vintage is nowadays. I'm interested in your opinions!

i keep thinking about that guy, but he never seems to make the cut.there are other cards i would rather play. but i will try it as a one of and see where it gores from there

If aggro oath is dead then why choose Plat over Tidespout?

Doesn't the double blue requirement of Mana Drain conflict with the black cards enough to the point where Negate may be better?  What do you drain into anyway in this build?

Bayou's instead of Trops?

Is this even an honest attempt at taking Oath in a better direction?

What happened to your attempt at http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=37019.0.

Reread http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=35895.0

This could be done with the trasmute build ... here u could hardcast platz , so u have an out more.

The Mountains Win Again originated as a mono red deck and then quickly developed to add white, so those are the cards that I consider classic at this point. I agree with Troy's assessment that the card advantage in TMWA. Most cards either have to be very good at what they do or flexible enough to allow for multiple benefits in game.

we had a good turnout, with about 10 players, lets keep it going guys!

       an overall good time was had, a great learning experience for me, especially when i "learned" that rich shay had that 3rd blue card in his hand when he proceeded to live the dream and commandeer my tinker lol  i just wanted to find out what that 3rd mystery card was, i just couldnt wait haha =[

With the 4 Seas and without the Vault + Petal, thats only 59 (I Believe). Do you run Tormods main or something?

You're missing some cards there.... I assume some number of Underground Seas, maybe Mana Vault + Lotus Petal?