Is Stasis competitive?

I'll try to make it as well. Good to see vintage coming back to Eudo... *cough* still owe us a lotus tournament *cough*

Well, well, well, just when I was considering dumping all my vintage cards. If you can somehow cast Animate Dead on the vintage scene around here that would be awesome. There are a few of us in SF (anywhere between 2-5) that would still play in events, as well as others from around the Bay Area.

Vintage in the Bay Area-
Superstars- The channelfireball higher ups stopped coming, this led to their many followers also not coming. Attendance went from 30 to 20 to 10. When there was only 10 people coming, and you knew exactly what everyone was playing it made it not fun or worth the time to spend an entire weekend day traveling and playing 3 rounds. In their defense, Superstars held them for longer than they should have, considering how unprofitable they were. These haven't fired in 6 months or more.

Eudomonia- They used to run a power 9 series; we got through the 5 moxes in 2009?!! (holy crap that was a long time ago); they gave away free entry to the lotus tournament to people who got 2nd place in the mox tournaments...then never had a lotus tournament. Pretty shitty. Not sure why they stopped, there were some scheduling conflicts, but they never rescheduled.

Anyway, those are the two main vintage stores, both of which now have zero. Hopefully your name will spark some interest in the format around here.

Glad to see this happened. Sorry for the lack of support from SF, just wasn't possibility for me this weekend. Hopefully this helps build some more local interest in the format.

Nov 20th is the weekend of the world championships.

You guys should sponsor a mox event at worlds

It's a Rare in the first set of a block that will be drafted a lot. This card is probably OK in standard, not SFM good. It will see some play in vintage probably a 2 of in some decks. And will see some play in other formats as well. This card will NOT be $15 in 3 months. Probably $7. If you want to get some for value, get foils.

Great to see a mox up again Eric! I will be in vegas this weekend, but everyone else show up!

I  think worlds will be the last pro tour that still has all the side events going on. So, yep you can go and there will be fun things to do, but the public events probably won't be announced for a couple months.

I think the source is organizing a legacy version, not sure how it has worked out or if it has even happened yet. But I'd be down for a vintage tournament on cockatrice

Ah man! Saw you posted in this and thought there was going to be good news. Pull some weight and get us that Lotus tournament, west coast vintage could use a high profile tournament to jump start things

Wow, that's a lot of cards. I've found bringing in 6 cards for game 2 seems about right. Usually 4 Chain 2 Claim. Then for game 3 siding appropriate for the hate. But I really dislike watering down the deck with all the sb cards. Usually you only need to answer 1 piece of hate, and keeping in fatestitchers allows you a turn in which they can't recover from. Glad to see you're keeping at least 1 dread return in for each matchup, that's a mistake I think a lot of people make is to side out all of them.

Eric and I were planning on going until Saturday night when something else came up. Hopefully we'll be there next month.

Cool, would love to see a good turnout

Is the CF crew going to be there?

I went undefeated in a small tournament last weekend playing 4x Gitaxian probe. It took the spot of disruption in the list (leyline, chalice, or unmask). It was pretty good all day, similarly to those other cards, it's only good in your opener. I would compare it most to unmask, but instead of slowing your opponent down a half a turn it speeds you up a half a turn. A few times I tapped bazaar then used probe to see their hand and dredge grave troll into narco and cabal therapy which was pretty sweet on turn 1. It's definitely playable, but not sure correct.

Whoops, copy / pasted from c. fireball email. I'm assuming it's sunday

Reminder to everyone that there is vintage on Sunday for duals Info:

Start Time: Sunday, June 19th : Noon
Entry Fee: $25 (Pre-Register Now!)
Format: Vintage (10 Proxy, Unsanctioned)
Structure: Swiss Rounds + Top 4 or Top 8
Prize:
2x Tropical Island Guaranteed!
Other prizes based on attendance.

No Sol Ring in the winning list? Care to comment on it's exclusion?

You don't always have metalworker, workshops can't cast Eldrazi, and with spheres, well, you get it.

For me it goes Mox > Duals > Library.  How many would it take to make a lotus tournament worthwhile? 40ish?

List? Were you playing gitaxian probe?

One time I wanted to cast a bloodghast and had a gemstone mine and a coliseum. My oppenent had 2 leyline of the void in play and I had mulliganed to 2 without a bazaar. So that game wasn't going well anyway. But that was the only time I wanted to be a city of brass.

Thanks for posting the lists Eric, it was good to play some vintage again. I was the dredge player. My plan was to have a good game against shop decks so I wanted a lot of lands and a lot of Bloodghasts / Ichorids. This worked pretty well as I played against Workshops twice.

@Metman I activated a Coliseum one time and it won me the game. I mostly just wanted a lot of lands and figured I would play some that were good when they weren't paying for sphere effects.

Good to see everyone!

Hey guys, sorry, doesn't look like sfers will be making it this weekend.   Haven't played vintage in forever.

Scratch that, looks like we probably are going

Just checking in to see who's planning on playing some vintage this weekend? Should be a couple of us from SF coming. Let's get a good turnout!

I get the difference, but I don't think this card will see heavy play, but will see some sideboard play. It is just another piece of graveyard hate. In your situation, rav. trap would likely be just as good, and that card seems to have fallen mostly out of favor. Yes, any color can play it, etc etc. It's not that the card is bad at what it does. It's that this type of effect isn't as good as people convince themselves, these effects are always looked at from the best possible situation and people seem to forget that this cost you a card, and that you may draw more of these (no it's not that good to hit multiple targets, especially in vintage with so many powerful 1 ofs)

The card is fine at what it does, but extirpate was rarely seeing play. People are talking like this a a new effect, we've essentially had this card for years. It will see some sideboard play after initial release, then it will slowly go to fewer and fewer copies.

That sounds fine, but I'm wary about how it will actually turn out. Lately we haven't had 16 people, and without the draw of a guaranteed MOX I wouldn't be surprised to see less attendance. We'll see, and I'll try to make next weekend.

Sweet, except prize support was cut in half 
I guess with the low turnouts that it was bound to happen