@stuart said in Yawgmoth's Storm:

I'm thinking about what I want to play at the next Austin Vintage event, and Storm is hard to pass up. I've noticed that most recent Storm lists on Mtgtop8 are playing 4 Dark Petition, and splashing for Mentor. Is this pretty much accepted as stock at this point? I'm currently on 3 Petition, no Mentor.

I haven't been playing storm much, so take this with a grain of salt. I don't really like the splash for Mentor. It's not awful, but I find it awkward more often than I enjoy it. I like 4x Petition and going all-in on Tendrils (pre-board). A lot of lists seem to not run Wheel of Fortune, but I don't think that's a good thing.

As the title says! I just got back into playing after a ~10 year hiatus, so I'm likely to be a bit slow and have forgotten things. Mostly, looking for people to play who are nice, not looking for lightning-speed play, and open to discussing the game/moves played. Also open to playing Legacy and Modern.

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Can we just start our own Eternal governing body?

#bringbacktype1?

There's some good stuff here:

http://themanadrain.com/topic/1897/starting-up-a-local-tournament-scene-need-help/8

@Evoclipse said:

@Smmenen ive asked you on twitter before: is the book available as a non digital print? If so, can it be shipped to europe?

This might not be what you're looking for, but I've printed digital copies of books via Lulu and been happy with the results. The prices for printing there are very reasonable.

@stuart said in StarCityGames Power 9 Vintage Tournament - 6/8-6/10:

Liquimetal Trygon Predator: need I say more?

1000% yes

@Ten-Ten The paper and hardback copies are available now from Eternal Central!

I've come back after that long! I quit after Mirrodin block. While the site seems to be frequented less, the quality is generally great. I miss the mana drain art though

@vaughnbros said in PSA: Containment Priest isn’t good:

was already seeing play before LSV.

I think the point there was LSV possibly popularizing it.

My favorites (non-promo):

This is my favorite Island art

but unfortunately isn't available on a black-bordered card (that I know of). Second Island is probably

@stormanimagus said in PSA: Containment Priest isn’t good:

@5space Actually, even that is wrong. Sullivan Brophy was one of the first to popularize the Barbarian Ring tech which he's now moved over to being Cabal Pit (and 1 Ring). It irritates me to no end when players assign credit to deck tech to the latest "high status" player who played with the tech even if they clearly stole that tech from an originator of it. Don't always assume that the only players who use spicy tech are guys like LSV. This actually happened to me with Mike Noble essentially being given full credit for Noble Fish even though I was absolutely 100% the originator of the deck as people in the know will attest to.

-Storm

Sorry, I should clarify. I didn't mean that LSV should be credited with the tech to any degree, but that his status would popularize it (on a larger scale) by him simply playing it. Of course, this will probably lead some to attributing this tech with LSV. I'm aware of Brophy's and @vaughnbros' work and didn't mean to take any credit away from them.

@vaughnbros said in PSA: Containment Priest isn’t good:

was already seeing play before LSV.

I think the point there was LSV possibly popularizing it.

@stuart said in TMD Vintage Magic Podcast - e1: Brian Kelly:

there’s a significant population of people who ONLY listen to podcasts via their IPhone app (myself included)

Likewise. I only listen to podcasts on my phone while I'm commuting.

@stuart said in Yawgmoth's Storm:

I'm thinking about what I want to play at the next Austin Vintage event, and Storm is hard to pass up. I've noticed that most recent Storm lists on Mtgtop8 are playing 4 Dark Petition, and splashing for Mentor. Is this pretty much accepted as stock at this point? I'm currently on 3 Petition, no Mentor.

I haven't been playing storm much, so take this with a grain of salt. I don't really like the splash for Mentor. It's not awful, but I find it awkward more often than I enjoy it. I like 4x Petition and going all-in on Tendrils (pre-board). A lot of lists seem to not run Wheel of Fortune, but I don't think that's a good thing.

@desolutionist Happens every month! I'm also not coming this month due to father's day, and I know the same is true for some others.

Why does the legendary planeswalker not get the new legendary hat on the top?

@macdeath said in How can I build a playable mono blue control(or combo) deck ?:

Mono blue is not worth it for a combo deck since without the black tutors you loose a lot of consistency. You want a deck with redundant pieces. I would suggest revisiting the Back 2 basics mono blue control with pwalkers and versatile blue creatures (like Consecrated sphinx, Torrential gearhulk, Vendillion clique, Snapcaster mage, trinket mage ...) In today's meta you can use Dismember or Propaganda/energy flux as your creature/artifact answers and have a strong counter package with 3/4 mana drains.

How about High Tide? Probably a splash would be good, but High Tide is quite consistent in other formats. I remember reading this back in the day, but it's quite dated:

http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/vintage/13186_Tsunami_Warning_Bringing_High_Tide_to_Vintage.html

Bumping in case any still plays not-on-MTGO like me

@stuart said in StarCityGames Power 9 Vintage Tournament - 6/8-6/10:

Liquimetal Trygon Predator: need I say more?

1000% yes

@stuart IIRC, the plan was 13 rounds total for both days?