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    • RE: [ELD] Mystic Sanctuary

      @Serracollector it still comes into play tapped then amulet untaps it so that won't work.

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    • RE: Vintage meta-game strategy

      @stormanimagus Having played a lot of jund, I don't think we're currently in a good format for it with all the tinker running around.

      posted in Vintage Strategy
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    • RE: Vintage 101: Ascending the Throne

      Its more of an esper mentor deck that I call doomsday for fun. Doomsday won me one game that was already pretty locked up, I almost had a turn two doomsday against smennen when he mulled to 3 but he hit multiple cabal therapies off some good dredges. It closes out the game fast when you've locked things up with teferi and narset and can be a surprise win game 1 that makes people board weird but it gets sided out in almost every matchup. Mentor is the main win I just really like the card doomsday and played it for fun. That said it makes sideboarding really easy since the doomsday package is usually about how many cards you want to bring in +/- a preordain.

      posted in Vintage News
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    • RE: [D&D] Maddening Hex

      @stormanimagus if you're are planning on playing it online, I would not play maddening hex. Last I heard it was bugged and deals no damage.

      posted in Single-Card Discussion
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    • RE: Vintage Boardstates!

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      posted in Vintage Community
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    • RE: Vintage 101: Interesting Times Ahead

      @botvinik A new article was just posted today. You can also find the archive of past articles here.

      posted in Vintage News
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    • RE: Eternal Weekend 2021

      @darkspiredragon Just announced this morning. Legacy events are the weekend of November 19-21 and Vintage events are the weekend of November 26-28. https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-online/magic-online-announcements-october-12-2021

      posted in Vintage Tournaments
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    • RE: Un-restricting cards

      @chubbyrain1 I can't really speak to saga mirrors as I haven't played saga much myself but I actually think saga was great for the format in that it made things a lot more interactive. Saga, and to a lesser extent ragavan, making it more important to interact with permanents on the board helped increase the range of viable decks. I had a really good run with jund during that time because suddenly tinker decks cared about you interacting with their board. I haven't found ragavan mirrors to be that bad either. As a 2/1 ragavan can't attack through anything so even if you can't immediately remove it you can just keep it from attacking by having a blocker. I think a lot of these cards like hullbreacher and Narset that suck to play against in the mirror are really not that bad if you just play a different deck. That doesn't help so much when the decks you want to play are hosed by those cards but I think they have plenty of counterplay. I agree lodestone golem is probably a safe unrestrict in a force of vigor world but since I am biased against shops I would still rather not see it happen. Unrestricting mentor on the other hand I think would just make every non mentor non combo deck completely unplayable.

      posted in Vintage Community
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    • RE: Teferi Midrange

      That gush impression inspired an esper doomsday list I took to 3-3 in the challenge last week. It seems like the combo of lavinia and teferi is pretty powerful. Teferi definitely opens up a lot of interesting lines. Did you have a hard time playing leovold at all? DRS probably helps with that but what do you think about narset?

      posted in Vintage Strategy
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    • RE: Death's Shadow

      It could also work pretty well in a grixis deck with dreadhorde arcanist.

      posted in Single-Card Discussion
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    • RE: Jund deck

      @john-cox I've played a lot of jund online. The format has been pretty hostile with doomsday being the best deck but whenever shops or bug is good jund is fine. I 5-0'd with this list in March and I think it is representative of how I would build Jund these days:
      Lands - 18
      1x Badlands
      3x Bayou
      1x Strip Mine
      2x Taiga
      1x Tropical Island
      4x Verdant Catacombs
      4x Wasteland
      2x Wooded Foothills
      Artifacts - 6
      1x Black Lotus
      1x Mox Emerald
      1x Mox Jet
      1x Mox Ruby
      1x Mox Sapphire
      1x Soul-Guide Lantern
      Creatures - 14
      4x Deathrite Shaman
      4x Dark Confidant
      1x Collector Ouphe
      3x Tarmogoyf
      1x Klothys, God of Destiny
      1x Leovold, Emissary of Trest
      Instant - 16
      1x Mental Misstep
      1x Ancestral Recall
      2x Lightning Bolt
      3x Pyroblast
      4x Abrupt Decay
      3x Assassin's Trophy
      2x Force of Vigor
      Sorcery - 3
      1x Time Walk
      1x Demonic Tutor
      1x Green Sun's Zenith
      Planeswalkers - 3
      3x Wrenn and Six

      Sideboard - 15
      3x Mindbreak Trap
      1x Pithing Needle
      2x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
      2x Yixlid Jailer
      1x Opposition Agent
      3x Ravenous Trap
      1x Collector Ouphe
      2x Force of Vigor

      As Jund your gameplan is usually to grind out your opponent with 1-for-1 trades while putting stuff on board that accrues you value over time. Playing more mana dorks to let you drop a bomb on turn 3 runs counter to Jund's strengths. You want your spells to be as flexible and to do as much as possible. Your spells are cheap, you don't need the extra mana. You really don't want to draw a hierarch later in the game. Ragavan could be interesting. I don't think Jund wants Void Mirror at all.

      posted in Vintage Strategy
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    • RE: [KHM] Burning-Rune Demon

      Recent oath lists playing rune-scarred demon like this one have mostly been using it to set up a kill using underworld breach. Getting two pieces of the combo seems pretty good and can be fairly resilient letting you make a pile from breach, lotus, brain freeze or sevinne's reclamation depending on what you need/what you milled over with oath.

      posted in Single-Card Discussion
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    • RE: Grixis Monkey

      @lienielsen You shouldn't need to use the wayback machine. If you're just looking at the popular decks/metagame section on mtggoldfish it will show you the most recent decks but if you are interested in finding decks from a particular time period or using a particular card you can use their advanced deck search to find those. For instance here is a list of all the tournament finishes for vintage decks containing at least one copy of ragavan from the beginning of October to today.

      posted in Vintage Strategy
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    • RE: [AFR] Tasha's Hideous Laughter

      @john-cox I don't think this interacts with dauthi voidwalker.

      posted in Single-Card Discussion
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    • RE: [NEO] Reality Heist

      Seems like this could be alright as thoughtcast 9-12 in 8cast.

      posted in Single-Card Discussion
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