Academy deck?!?!?!?

[backforgood2007]

Hi im new to your forums and willing to learn (again).

I played magic 4 years ago so in not a total noob in the game i started again when i got MWS.

I have one question doesn't anybody play the old school academy deck i played when i stopped? (haven't seen any post so far on it)

And also I've seen many decks SB mentioning a deck featuring Ichorid I have yet to be convinced that this deck is good enough to win a pro tournament.

Thanks for this forum guys seems nice

[That0neguy]

Nope, tendrils of agony is a much better kill condition now.  Although Tolaria West could possibly have people considering to try to rebuild it, I think tolaria west, will end up being too slow, and tendrils will still be better.

Academy is still used in several decks though.

[MolotDET]

doesn't anybody play the old school academy deck i played when i stopped?

that would make you a person who last played in 2003?

Well, "Academy" which was an all out combo deck that killed with an "X" spell (Stroke, Torch or Fireball) hasn't existed since about 2002 and died a slow painful death. It lived on and off for the few years before that, making appearances in metagame shifts that leaned heavily twords aggro but the advent of a non-stagnent metagame full of Aggro decks that won faster and had a lot of control pieces (TnT, Stax, Fish, EBA and Ankh-Sligh) along with the strengthening of Control decks and other more stable and redundant combo decks made playing the "Academy" deck very hard to win with and so it went kicking and screaming into the nether.

Release of cards with the "Storm" ability resurged "Academy" type decks that are much more stable and harder to disrupt. thus if you are looking for threads talking about an "Academy" like deck you will be looking for threads with the new buzz words;  Long... Storm Combo... TPS... or Tendrals.

so the answer to the question is basically NO but is really KINDA...

as for the Ichorid deck... the jury is still out on that one but you can bet there are some guys sitting in a dark room somewhere that are looking for the optimal deck list. so you can really not rush to judgement on that after GenCon this year...

hope this helps

Mo

[backforgood2007]

thanks this is a sad/happy day for me but still I hope to get back in the saddle as its called.

thanks guys hope to see you on MWS.

My name there is SNAKE

[Disburden]

Just for your reference there is a recent Academy list in the tournament results thread. It made top 8 during the last Pro Tour side event. The deck seems like a lot of fun if you ever think of sleeving up an Academy deck.

[backforgood2007]

  COOL disburden I think i will dust off my old deck to then.

Do u have a essential magic account I think ive seen u there if its the same person. 

I think I will swap some cards from the new series