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  Ain't No Rest for the Paradoxical - 11th Place Tournament Report - Vintage Champs 2018
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  Thanks for the feedback everyone! That was pretty much my take on it too, just wanted to see if i had the blinders on.

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  Drawing 14 - Vintage Champs 2018 Top 8 - 8th Place with "Grixis Thieves" or as I like to call it: Ocean's 75 by George Clooney
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  @vcf said in Drawing 14 - Vintage Champs 2018 Top 8 - 8th Place with "Grixis Thieves" or as I like to call it: Ocean's 75 by George Clooney:

  happy to see so top scores and naming me
  Congrats!

  I took some months ago Moatzu's list and changed abrade for goblin.
  I'm also starting testing -4leyline, dredge has a lot of issues for it. Did you considered Yixlid Jailer?
  I will also will test Tezzeret.

  The thing i'm not super fan is 4 notion. How many times did you resolve drawing 14 in 11 rounds?

  Thanks for the report and congrats again for your performance!

  Thanks! Yes, I also took a look at Moatzu's lists too from online.
  Yes, I have also considered Yixlid Jailer and love the card, as it can also clock dredge as hate piece. Not having played vintage in a year, I just took my dredge buddy's advice and played the 4x tormod's crypt.

  Tezzeret was great, essentially a 1 card combo for vault-tezz infinite turns over 2 turns, or redundant vault-key piece.

  The 4x notion thief may not be correct or optimal, but I was sure as heck gonna just jam it with draw 7s. I drew 14 4 or 5 times in the 11 rounds, but versus shops (3 of the rounds), you board out a lot of the combo pieces, so those rounds don't really count. I attempted to draw 14 4-5 other times, but was disrupted, twice in the top 8. So it isn't a hard thing to do. Most of the time, the notion thief is a must answer flash threat for blue decks so they have to trade counters/resources on it. Then there's the 2nd and or 3rd thief. Eventually, I trade resources off and easily set up vault-key for the win. I found notion thief to be more impressive than JTMS, due to it having flash. And it won beating for 3 a lot too. But yes, 4x notion thief may not be optimal. But my plan for the weekend was to have fun and try to draw 14. The top 8 was a cool side effect of it all

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  Team Vintage Super League report
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  3rd Mtg Vintage Chile Tournament Results
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  bomberman at Deal Me In Games
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  Deal Me In Games July Event 7/15/18 Results
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  You can see the 2nd game of the finals match between Joe and Joel here

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  SCG Con - Inferno Oath - 9th
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  SCG Con - Tournament Report from a First Time Paper Player (Sunny Dredge in 40th)
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  awesome report! enjoyed the read.

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  SCGCon: 9-4 on White Eldrazi (13 / 124)
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  Cheers @volrathxp - good to meet you as well! Ben was happy to have someone day 2 with his Bazaars, those things get next to no use by him.

  @13NoVa right back at you! Next time let’s break into Top 8.

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  SCGCON - Ravager Shops - 19th
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  @hierarchnoble It is hard to know if the PO opponent is on 1-2 snapcaster or is playing towards a tinker on blightsteel which is very good against shops so i don't mind hedging my deck with 2 cages and cutting the chiefs. My opinion is both chief and overseer in this matchup are low value/ineffective at winning because what i'm trying to do is prevent them from casting their spells with my spheres and null rods. If they can't cast their spells through that disruption, they can't win, and i can close the game with anything at that point.

  edit: cage is also good against the yawg will versions

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  2nd Last at SCCON with Ambush Viper Tempo (10th)
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  And I need to quote Paul Mastriano because this event made me remember why I fell in love with Vintage and the Community:

  “The best part about Magic is The Gathering”

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  Team Serious Open Report
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  Captain of the Ship - 1st Place Tournament Report - TMD Open 19
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  Thanks for writing this up, it was an enjoyable read

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  Top 8 at EW EU 2018 with URw Gremlin Xerox
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  Thanks everyone, I'm a scaredy-cat being afraid of getting greedy with Snapcaster and then end up making a resolved Oath live.
  I'd even bring in second Minbreak Trap for Thrun or Carnage Tyrant. =D

  PMs are somewhat broken, but when enlarged it seems to sort of work.
  I don't have FB, I'll try to get in touch with Mr. Forino via Nick, although my guess would be he's visiting parents in the South of Italy.

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  Deal Me In Games April 14 Tournament Report
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  Updated Dan's list to reflect the 2nd back to basics. I watched some of his top 8 games and just simply having B2B out changed the flow of every game I saw.

  Also, we have another top 8 deck - Troy Sands Mono-red Goblins (and actually I wouldnt even call this goblins as it features multiple other creature types for control. Gobbos is just the aggro win-con).

  #Troy Sands Mono red goblins Lands 19 10 mountains 4 ancient tomb 4 city of traitors 1 strip mine Artifact Mana 3 1 black lotus 1 mox ruby 1 lotus petal Artifact Control 7 1 chalice of the void 1 trinisphere 1 sorcerous spyglass 4 null rod Enchantments 4 4 blood moon Creatures 16 4 magus of the moon 4 goblin rabblemaster 3 dire fleet daredevil 4 simian spirit guide 1 koth of the hammer 4 Chandra, torch of defiance Sorcery 7 4 fiery confluence 2 chaos warp 1 ricochet trap Sideboard 4 leyline of the void 4 ensnaring bridge 1 pyrostatic pillar 1 eidolon of the great revel 1 koth of the hammer 1 sorcerous spyglass 1 abrade 2 by force
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  My Second place finish with Vintage Lands. Top Deck Games Monthly 1K
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  @emopizza I also did some testing with song of the dryads and imprisoned in the moon. They seem corny but both offer good options to threats that the deck has issues dealing with like active planeswalkers. I cut them in the end because they didn’t have any interaction once they hit the graveyard and were too much of an investment to have countered.
  I think they could easily see some play though as an answer to certain blue decks in the right build.

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  Vintage Challenge Data Collection Help Needed
  metagame report mtgo vintage challenge magic online • • diophan

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  It's finding the 5-6 hours to both play in the event to recoup EV and gather data during/after that is the problem!

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  Top 4 with Gifts at Gamingetc 12/9/17
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  @The-Atog-Lord Thirteen--I imagine there were others who felt similarly to you. It was my first time making it out to Gamingetc, so I don't know what's typical for their monthly tournaments. The drive back was more arduous than the tournament itself!

  @jsakpc Thanks! As for Snapcaster vs Recoup, I would say that the former is certainly a better card than the latter in a vacuum. Snapcaster is certainly more flexible. However, I am running Recoup because it is a single card accomplishing what would take 2-4 Snapcasters. I want Gifts to be able to win on its own given sufficient mana without any help. A lone Gifts can find Lotus, Will, Recoup, Demonic and win with whatever they give you (provided you have the mana). If you substitute that Recoup with Snapcaster, they can bin the Will and Snapcaster and cut you off Will.

  I think a Gifts deck with Snapcaster can work--flashing back draw spells and counters is very strong. I personally wanted to spend those slots on other cards and play a single card (Recoup) that makes Gifts a one-card combo. You could certainly try this list and sub in 4 Snapcasters in for the Barals and Recoup--and maybe finding another cut to fit in a Merchant Scroll, which would enable casting Ancestral twice a game more often. Such a move could solidify the mana base to UB, if you drop the red splash.

  That's what's so great about Gifts, you can tailor your list to your preferences and style!

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  Doomsday at the TSI
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  The only changes I'd make is to cut the 3rd Flusterstorm for either the 3rd Duress or the 4th Thoughtseize.

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  2nd Last at EW2017 with Ambush Viper Tempo (10th)
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  @bobbyvictory

  I only played against sean o'brien in the main event, but I did enough testing to feel comfortable in that matchup