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    • Marland_Moore

      Dark Depths
      Vintage Strategy • • Marland_Moore

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      Been messing around with it for a bit and fast combo seems like hell to play against but the grindy decks don't have any good solutions so far.

    • cleverpseudonym

      TSI: The Land 3 2022.06.4
      Official Tournament Results • • cleverpseudonym

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      IamActuallyLvL1

      Very cool!

    • cleverpseudonym

      2022.07.23 - Team Serious Open - All-American Cards and Comics, Warren, OH
      Vintage Tournaments • • cleverpseudonym

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    • Brass Man

      Catastrolabe!
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      @brass-man
      That looks nice! Definitely worth trying out.

    • Protoaddict

      [CBC] Green Slime
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      @revengeanceful I'm not totally up to date with what a mana ability is anymore but no you should not be able to counter a lotus or moxen or sol ring with this because they do not use the stack, they just instantly resolve so long as there are no targets on the mana ability.

      The things that it does counter that are pretty interesting are Oath, Survival, Time Vault, Voltaic Key, a bunch of the Tormods Crypt analogues. I believe it can also kill Urza's saga as soon as they play it and trigger the lore counter being added to it, before they can even squeeze it for mana.

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      Full Proxy vintage in Chapel Hill, NC July 31st at 12pm
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      @jaeastep I'm not in the area, but I'm excited to see the event! Best of luck!

    • IamActuallyLvL1

      One Year of Modern Horizons 2 Vintage Data
      Vintage Strategy • • IamActuallyLvL1

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      This is truly amazing content. Thank you for compiling this data and doing the analysis.

    • Marland_Moore

      StoneBlade
      Vintage Strategy • • Marland_Moore

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      @iamactuallylvl1 I obviously cannot take any credit here but I am enjoying that Stone Forge is not creeping into the top tier when there was so much doubt about it's power level.

      I think the arch type has a lot of potential in the current meta and will continue to do well.

    • Protoaddict

      [SNC] Ledger Shredder
      Single-Card Discussion • • Protoaddict

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      Card is completely nuts. Trying it out in everything to figure out the best home

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      LA Vintage 5/15
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    • thecravenone

      Houston, TX | 4/10/2022 | Full Proxy Vintage at Asgard Games
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      Ten-Ten

      @thecravenone how did this turn out, if I may ask?

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      RUG OF SMOTHERING
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      @babau Maybe? Previous cards that tried to stop Storm by being painful still let the Storm player go off and so they were far less powerful than cards that STOPPED the Storm player. At least this one guarantees lethal damage before the Storm count gets to 9. As turn 1 off a Workshop, I could see it if you needed a narrow answer to Storm.

    • Marland_Moore

      Format Inertia
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      @thewhitedragon69 You are absolutely correctly, that this is just is. My point here was something that @Smmenen brought up in their last podcast. Vintage has always been a format that exploits fast and free spells. My point about MH1 and MH2 is that we got a lot more "free" spells and many more fast spells that have really locked the format into it's arch types.

      I'm not making a judgement, more of a statement about format identity.

    • Protoaddict

      [CBL] Wilson, Refined Grizzly
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      [NEO] Patchwork Automaton
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      @serracollector It's a house in Standard, but I think Traxos just does what this wants to do but better. Yes, this has ward 2, but it doesn't have trample or "vigilance", requires 6 artifacts cast to be the same power of Traxos, and a Force of Vigor really still handles both since getting 2 mana available behind a FoV is small fries in Vintage.

    • Protoaddict

      [SNC] Void Rend
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      @marland_moore Teferi can be used besides this, they have different play patterns and are not mutually exclusive.

      Otwara is a land and therefor not pitchable, a strong attribute of this card, but again not mutually exclusive.

    • Protoaddict

      [SNC] An Offer You Can't Refuse
      Single-Card Discussion • • Protoaddict

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      @botvinik This card would have been monster in 4x Karn days, but now that it got the axe, it's have to be a UG fish deck if anything. Otherwise, swan song is just better...or spell pierce.

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      Play/draw win rates
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      @dshin
      One way to do this (assuming no one already has) would be to make a bot to record play draw and winners and throw it as some of the streamers YouTube vids. This would yield a fairly large data set relative to the rather small vintage community although it would have a number of unfortunate confounding factors.

    • John Cox

      Tangle wire might be banned?
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    • John Cox

      WoTC is bringing back the table top PT.
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      revengeanceful

      I'm really excited for this. PTs used to be must watch events for me, and I'm looking forward to watching them again!