@withmk2 Nice! It took me a bit to find you on facebook to ask for it. Thanks for sharing your list. Feel free to hang out with the rest of us when you have the time. Congrats again on the title.

Here's the decklist typed up:

// Survival Salad

// 60 Maindeck
// 7 Artifact
1 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire

// 26 Creature
4 Basking Rootwalla
4 Vengevine
4 Hollow One
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
1 Wonder
2 Elvish Spirit Guide
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Hooting Mandrills
1 Manglehorn
1 Spell Queller

// 7 Enchantment
4 Survival of the Fittest
3 Stony Silence

// 1 Instant
1 Ancestral Recall

// 18 Land
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
2 Tropical Island
1 Forest
3 Savannah
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Verdant Catacombs
2 Wooded Foothills
2 Windswept Heath

// 1 Sorcery
1 Time Walk

// 15 Sideboard
// 4 Artifact
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Null Rod
2 Grafdigger's Cage

// 9 Creature
1 Kataki, War's Wage
4 Containment Priest
2 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Wispmare
1 Fairgrounds Warden

// 2 Enchantment
1 Energy Flux
1 Stony Silence

@33:14 I see a Kataki, War's Wage and Null Rod.

Could some please explain why Sekimoto scooped game 1? I didn't see any POs or Mentors in his grave, and he had the vault lock.

@chronatog I put the card in the row right in front of my mana producers. My next upkeep I move them closer to the red zone.

Good to know it's actually a rule. Mind you I've always played that way since I started playing ages ago.

What people really find strange is that I play all my cards facing my opponent and always have. I just figure I already know what everything in my deck does, so it just makes it easier for my opponent to read the cards. Anybody else do this?

edit: interesting. As per 4.6 this is illegal. "Each untapped permanent should face its controller." I've never been called on it. Perhaps because it says "should" instead of "must"?

I played since the beginning up until the end of flashpoint cycle. It's a great game, but finding players can be difficult. I also grew frustrated with the direction the Organized Play was going, having little in terms of support, and the implementation of a ban/restricted list and functional errata really turned me off. I became used to the power level the game was at, and it seemed to be watered down after the changes.

After digging, I found the answer. The only place that mentions this interaction is a ruling on Vesuvan Doppelganger.

12/1/2004
If a Doppelganger is flipped, and it copies a flip card in any state, it will copy both "sides" of that card but use the flipped side. If a Doppelganger is unflipped, and it copies a flip card in any state, it will copy both "sides" of that card but use the unflipped side. In the second case, if it ever meets the flip conditions of its new ability, it will flip and used the flipped side of what it is copying.

If you use Mirage Mirror to clone Budoka Gardener and flip it, does Mirage Mirror retain its flipped ability after the effect wears off, essentially making it a "flipped" Mirage Mirror?

If so, when I later copy Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant, will the Mirage Mirror be the creature or the enchantment? If it becomes the enchantment, at any time is it the creature, requiring one to be sacrificed?

@maximumcdawg said in The Reserve List - The Reddest Red Herring:

Print silver boarded versions with alternate card backs and you're closer to something that works. As it stands...

When I made a ton of proxies for my local group, all I did was blank a ton of unglued and unhinged chaff. They should just print collectors sets with gold borders that can be used as playtest cards. Better yet, print gold bordered versions of Vintage champs decks.