Snake City Vault aka My Black Lotuses Attack for 2 [Premium Article]

[Smmenen]

http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/vintage/20117_So_Many_Insane_Plays_My_Black_Lotuses_Attack_for_Two.html

Editor's Blurb:

Monday, September 20th -  Stephen unveils a new deck - Snake City Vault!

You probably saw my team's Lotus Cobra deck from the Waterbury.   Now read all about it, including my epic match against Matt Elias.

The opening line of the article was supposed to say: In Vintage, you want to beat Jace or Jace harder than anyone else.   By that I mean that you want to abuse Jace faster and more aggressively than other folks.  Lotus Cobra helps you do just that...

Enjoy!

[CorwinB]

Lotus Cobra ? Talk about incredible tech coming from nowhere !

I find your deck very intriguing, in that it relies a lot on creatures and planeswalker, which are generally alien to Vintage. This may be a testimony to the power creep in recent sets, or to the ability of top Vintage teams to think outside of the box.

[forests failed you]

I predict that Lotus Cobra will see play in decks with 4 copies of the card GUSH.

[Razvan]

I predict that Lotus Cobra will see play in decks with 4 copies of the card GUSH.

At this rate I won't be surprised if people start playing 4 Sphinx or Leviathan since it's almost trivial to get that much mana.

Very well done Brian (I assume you came up with the Lotus Cobra idea). This deck is a ton of fun, having 8 2/1s gives you a lot of options against a lot of decks. I am not sold on this being a solution to MUD yet, as I took this to a tournament this weekend and got smoked by MUD type decks (I found myself wishing I had a few more counterspells), but that's too small a sample space to judge I suppose.

Nice article Steve.