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  Vintage @Youtube & @Twitch
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  @GutoCmtt Awesome. I will be eagerly waiting.

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  SMIP Podcast # 86: The 2018 Vintage Year in Review & Moxies Award Show
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  @john-cox said in SMIP Podcast # 86: The 2018 Vintage Year in Review & Moxies Award Show:

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  I think people don't like to acknowledge shops. If they did they would probably play it and be less biased against the archetype.

  True.

  I also think that it's also about salience. When PO wins a tournament, it's a more salient and prominent accomplishment. When Shops wins a tournament, I suppose that is "as expected," and fades into the background, narratively speaking.

  I try to keep myself honest when evaluating what is actually the 'best deck,' by hewing to the facts. True, those facts can be arranged in different configurations depending on criteria, but I think a holistic POV shows that Shops, not PO, was really the best deck of 2018.

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  Vintage 101: The Power of Skulls
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  Good to know! I also pick the cheap stuff on modo.

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  SMIP Podcast # 85: Vintage Scenarios and Game Puzzles
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  Here is the link to Matt Sperling and Eric Vergo discussing the RUG v Shops scenario

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QahWDsZBAE

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  Vintage 101: As White as Snow
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  @kaluma this is great feedback for sure. it's something that's on the short list of things to look at. if i ever do decide to do this, i will be reaching out to some people to assist with it for sure. thanks for the feedback

  @craw_advantage hah yeah i saw that list off of chubby's twitter, and it looked super cool. i'll keep this in mind for the spice corner.

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  Vintage 101: Days Gone By
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  @iamactuallylvl1

  Thank you for producing great content yourself!

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  Vintage 101: Survivor - Amonkhet Edition
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  @megustalabanana said in Vintage 101: Survivor - Amonkhet Edition:

  @kaluma i really dont understand your last posts... so i have 2 questions for you, so i can understand the whole thing better:
  Do you stream aswell? If so...
  Does this jeff got more viewers than you?
  Somehow i feel i know alredy the answers.... and now i understand your post better.... it actually makes sense xD

  I don't want this to get out of hand, but Kaluma (along with a whole bunch of other people here* @wfain) invented the deck and did it witha lot of it streaming so I doubt Kaluma has stream envy. I think jeff is very good at playing popular decks in interesting formats. Most TMD people are more attuned to vintage gameplay than jeff's audience probably is.

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  More 'cardboard' event video coverage from Australia
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  I enjoyed the last one, so I’m looking forward to watching this!

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  From 20 to 0 in 90 Seconds: Anatomy of a Vintage Game
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  Great article! I still think his line with DRS was wrong. With 2 lands he could've pitched DRS for Rootwalla and pitched Rootwalla for any other creature. That way he gets his chump blocker anyway but ends with a card in his hand, guaranteeing his Survival chain next turn.

  But to your point in the article, these kind of automated responses is why Magic responds so well to training. Your results are very different when you're playing all the time vs when you're away form the game (or deck) for a while.

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  2019 MOCS Championship Update Announcement
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  This just went up: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-online/state-magic-online-2018-12-14

  Relevant portion to this question:

  Speaking of ways to play, by now you've seen Wizards' announcement about esports, and MTGO will continue to play its part by qualifying players for the tabletop Mythic Championships as well as hosting our own Magic Online Championship Series. As part of that support, we increased the prizes for Championships to $250,000 for the 2019 season. We've also expanded the ways you can qualify by expanding the Weekend Challenges to be part of the Championship Series. Now you can even qualify for the tabletop Mythic Championships by focusing on your favorite formats.

  So it sounds like everything they announced before is still on, including format champs qualifying for the Pro Tour Mythic Championship, and that this was just a communication miss.

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  Vintage 101: I Took an Oath
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  Serious Vintage #35 - Lands, the TSI Steveland winner
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  Great stuff from the crew once again. I love that somehow Experimental Frenzy Combo comes up during discussion of TSI meta. "Loses to Glacial Chasm." Good job Frank!

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  Romancing The Stones Invitational vids
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  TMD Vintage Magic Podcast - e4: Duane Haddix
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  Good episode! Great to hear some coverage on Terra Nova.

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  Team Serious Vintage Invitational LIVE!
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  @ten-ten I got it right heeeere!

  http://themanadrain.com/topic/2296/team-serious-invitational-tsisteveland-14-players

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  Vintage 101: Defense Against the Dark Arts
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  Great article man!

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  Vintage 101: The Greatest Thief
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  @cafecafe said in Vintage 101: The Greatest Thief:

  Small contribution for your Grixis videos section from last saturday: CafeCafe playing Thieves

  Thanks! I can't quite make changes once its published myself, but thanks for posting your video!

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  Serious Vintage #34 - Vintage Champs Finalist Nam Q. Tran
  podcast eternal weekend shops survival • • GrandpaBelcher

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  @spook said in Serious Vintage #34 - Vintage Champs Finalist Nam Q. Tran:

  I was unaware of the triple stack but had one this morning.

  Mistaaaaake!

  Thanks for listening! Glad you enjoyed it.

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  So Many Insane Plays – Measuring Metagame Diversity and Balance
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  @smmenen Good read! Very cool with a tool that can measure diversity. Seeing is believing.

  My only critique of your article would be that it wasn't immediately obvious that you flipped the index. You wrote

  Recall that a higher value indicates a more balanced and more diverse metagame, and a lower number indicates a less balanced and less diverse metagame, with .99 being a nearly perfectly balanced and diverse metagame with a plethora of viable decks, and a value closer to 0 being a metagame dominated basically by a single deck.

  But for that sentence to make sense, you would have to have read the endnote as you make no mention above of why this changed.

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  SMIP Podcast # 84: The Vintage Championship Recap
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  @smmenen thanks!

  I just printed it out, can't wait to playtest it with my playgroup this weekend.

  for posterity:

  scans of every decklist are at:

  http://www.eternalcentral.com/vintagechamps2018/

  and here's Cron's "Niv-Mizzet Grixis" as text:

  2 Deathrite Shaman
  3 Snapcaster Mage
  1 Tasigur, The Golden Fang
  1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun

  2 Mystic Remora
  2 Dack Fayden
  1 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
  1 Chandra, Torch Of Defiance

  1 Night's Whisper
  3 Preordain

  1 Ponder
  1 Treasure Cruise
  1 Brainstorm
  1 Gitaxian Probe
  1 Demonic Tutor
  1 Dig Through Time
  1 Time Walk
  1 Ancestral Recall
  1 Gush

  2 Lightning Bolt
  2 Shattering Spree
  4 Force Of Will
  4 Mental Misstep
  2 Pyroblast

  Black Lotus
  Mox Sapphire
  Mox Ruby
  Mox Jet

  Strip Mine
  Library Of Alexandria
  4 Scalding Tarn
  2 Polluted Delta
  3 Volcanic Island
  3 Underground Sea
  1 Island
  1 Mountain

  [Sideboard]
  4 Leyline Of The Void
  2 Ravenous Trap
  2 Shattering Spree
  2 Pyroblast
  2 Annul
  1 Flusterstorm
  1 Pithing Needle
  1 Engineered Explosives