Myriad Games Vintage - Saturday July 11th, 2015

[Myriad Games]

Myriad Games: Salem
8 Stiles Road
Salem, NH 03079
603-681-0355

Salem@MyriadGames.com

Saturday July 11th, 2015

Registration will begin at 10:30 AM. Play will begin at 11:30 AM.
Ten (10) proxies are free with entry.
Decklists are not required.

Entry: $20

Prizes

As with all our events, prizes scale up with attendance, so the more the merrier!
~ 90% of the prizes will go to the Top 8.
The remaining ~10% will go to community support prizes.

Here are some examples of the prize distribution based on attendance:

20 Players - Total Myriad Money ~ $400 Myriad Money
30 Players - Total Myriad Money ~ $600 Myriad Money

Preregister today by emailing us, calling (603) 681-0355, or stopping by Myriad Games.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this event, please post here or email us.

Make plans now to come join in the fun!

We'll be posting details about the rest of our 2014 Myriad Games Monthly Vintage Series at www.MyriadGames.com

[Urtho]

Just FYI, this is now on the 18th 25th due to the prerelease on the 11th.  I plan to be there, see you all on the 18th.

Edit:  Date has been pushed to the 25th to allow more people to attend.

[waywreth]

25th as noted.  Also it starts at Noon, not 11:30am.

[ErtaiAdept]

See you all there tomorrow!

[Untranslated]

Glad to see it's still on.  Was thinking of coming up there too.  Anyone know whether they still offer the free entry if tournament date is within 30 days of birthday?  Cheers.

[waywreth]

I do not believe there are any birthday perks anymore.

[The Atog Lord]

It is good to be back.

Today, nine powerful wizards gathered to play Vintage at Myriad Games. I had not been to an even there for years, and I was very pleased to return. We played four rounds of Swiss for the event, with no cut to top eight.

I played a Grixis Pyromancer list. This is similar to the list that Randy used to win this past VSL mini-season. I also went 4-0 in a daily with a similar deck while streaming. The idea behind the deck is to use Young Pyromancer to pressure the opponent while using the amazing synergy between Pyromancer / Cabal Therapy / Gitaxian Probe.

I faced Workshop (winning both games despite losing the die roll); Hatebears; and two UWR Mentor decks. I went 4-0 in matches, 8-2 in games.


// Mana
3 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Strip Mine
2 Underground Sea
4 Volcanic Island
1 Island
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire

// Disruption
3 Cabal Therapy
3 Lightning Bolt
4 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep
1 Dack Fayden
1 Kolaghan's Command

// Creatures
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Young Pyromancer

// Draw and Search
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Dig Through Time
4 Gitaxian Probe
3 Gush
1 Ponder
3 Preordain
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk

Sideboard:
3 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Mountain
2 Pulverize
1 Pyroblast
4 Leyline of the Void

[Prospector]

Congrats Rich - Thanks for posting the deck list and how you got on.  Interesting to see you ran with the Kolaghan's command over the Dack Faydan Randy was running in his build.  Clearly a lot synergy with Snapcaster and Pyromancer and the modern Grixis builds all play it. Is this meta dependant or do you think the command would still be preferred in a meta where you expect to face more shops and steel city vault? I would have thought against hate bears and mentor the command is preferred for the immediate impact.  When we played the grixis mirror on MTGO (my user name: pvanbeek) after the Vintage Daily didn't fire I was played two Dack over tutor and command.  Was tutor a win more or decisive in any of your games?

[The Atog Lord]

Great questions. Demonic Tutor was fine. The best card to find was Time Walk. If you are already running Black for Therapy then Demonic Tutor makes sense. But Demonic Tutor is not a reason to run Black.

As for Command, it was spectacular. It greatly exceeded my expectations. It was a two-for-one against Shops. Against Mentor, I could kill Mentor and rebut a Snapcaster.

[Islandswamp]

Great questions. Demonic Tutor was fine. The best card to find was Time Walk. If you are already running Black for Therapy then Demonic Tutor makes sense. But Demonic Tutor is not a reason to run Black.

As for Command, it was spectacular. It greatly 8exceeded my expectations. It was a two-for-one against Shops. Against Mentor, I could kill Mentor and rebut a Snapcaster.

I've been wanting to try Kolaghan's Command for a while, but I wasn't sure if it was good enough. If you liked it, I'd love to try it.

I love the deck, if I can cash a daily with it it HAS to be good!

[brianpk80]

Great job, Rich!  The deck looks extremely flexible and powerful. 

[Bluediamonds]

Nice to have met you =)

[wappla]

While this deck is effective in the current metagame, I am very concerned about what it's validity says about the format right now. That you can play a deck without a fast combo and exactly one instant speed way to remove an artifact and zero ways to remove an enchantment is a bit concerning. That the deck can get away with so many sorcery speed cards in Cabal Therapy and Gitaxian Probe shows how little respect we have nowadays for Yawgmoth's Will, Tinker, or an early Oath of Druids. This deck's Oath plan really underscores a belief that the archetype has fallen off a cliff in the past six months/

[The Atog Lord]

I actually don't disagree with any of your points, Wappa. All control decks are metagame decks. This is no exception. If the format became full of Oaths, then I may need to re-think my deck choice.