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Author Topic: Mind's Desire pseudo TPS  (Read 1431 times)
justanothernewb
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« on: September 17, 2011, 08:59:49 pm »

1 Island
4 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Underground Sea
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
2 Cabal Ritual
4 Dark Ritual
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Fact of Fiction
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
3 Grim Tutor
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Imperial Seal
1 Lion’s Eye Diamond
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Memory Jar
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mind’s Desire
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
4 Personal Tutor
1 Ponder
4 Preordain
2 Sins of the Past
1 Sol Ring
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

Sideboard:
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Flusterstorm
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Praetor’s Grasp
1 Tinker
3 Xantid Swarm
Sorry if this belongs in a more compeititive forum.
I've just been getting into Vintage magic. I've been playing Legacy, but it's just stopped being interesting for me. I've been trying to build a slightly different Storm model.
The basic plan here is the same as normal TPS decks, but I had to cut a few cards, to make room for 4 Personal Tutor, which can fetch the core spell, the one you plan on ramping to: Mind's Desire. In total, you have 11 tutors that can search for it, so you can pretty reliably get it. Alternatively, sometimes you want to search for YawgWin, for which all the same tutors apply. It tends to goldfish at around turn 2 or 3, but I don't know if it's viable by Vintage Standards. I don't know how fast the format is right now, though I doubt it's all turn 1 wins, and I don't know how disruptive the opposing decks can be to this.
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« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2011, 10:44:28 pm »

With only two Cabal Therapies to clear the way, I suspect you are going to Mind's Desire your way right into a mess'o'flusterstorms in the near future.
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« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2011, 12:17:28 am »

Actually, those are Cabal Rituals. Different Card.
And that's what I'm really worried about. The deck is extremely consistent, but aside from Force, it runs basically no disruption. Are there any clear ways to insert, say, Duress into the deck without destroying the main engine of Personal Tutor+Desire?
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« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2011, 09:21:47 am »

Actually, those are Cabal Rituals. Different Card.
And that's what I'm really worried about. The deck is extremely consistent, but aside from Force, it runs basically no disruption. Are there any clear ways to insert, say, Duress into the deck without destroying the main engine of Personal Tutor+Desire?

No.  Blue is going to out-counter the snot out of this and shops are just going to lock it out insanely fast with only force to stop their first play and you haveing 3-4-6 as a majority of cc in your deck.  If they land a single sphere, it is bad news for you.
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