I misread this, this card is terrible.

@thewhitedragon69 said in MTG B&R Update Incoming!:

We didn't even get the vanilla "Vintage: No Changes" notice. We got the implied non-notice "Vintage: the format WotC won't even acknowledge, let alone give a F about."

They only mentioned the formats they were modifying. There was no mention of Standard /Commander /etc.

@topical_island said in [BBD] The Kenrith Walkers:

@brass-man we are old... I, I simply have no words.

@brass-man said in [BBD] The Kenrith Walkers:

@topical_island I love the idea of saying the game is marketed to 7 year olds by making a reference to a 25 year old kids show. Maybe WotC isn't dumbing things down... Maybe we're just really old.

This is a reason I really like vintage. I can go play vintage with my friends and we have a lot in common, mortgages, kids, money. I've been to a couple tournaments at a bar.
If I went to the standard FNM that draws most of the players where I live I wouldn't have that comradery, I like vintage because I'm old.

Thought I would mention. There's a full proxy Vintage web cam Discord now also. If you feel like playing with paper and can't (because of Covid, or your deck is worth more than your house). This is an option!
https://discord.gg/T6fMwZYH

@megustalabanana
Lotus, 2 Moxen and Petal is four secondary sources (40% chance in opener) of mana. Math that out with a 4 off card (40% of 40%) and you get about an 11% chance of it happening turn 1 if theres 4 copies in your deck.
Add in stuff like repeal and chrome or opal mox and your looking at 20ish percent.
This isn't a bad turn 2 play.
I think the home is in a mentor shell. Maybe a PO mentor deck without the PO's. Put in some extra Snapcaster/Jaces. Maybe a blue angel 2.0 deck.

I would 100% play this over [[Icatian Javelineer's]].

@vaughnbros I think against the big threats in vintage I would rather have this. Also, this gets rid Blightsteel. Beast within doesn't.

I don't know if this is possible. But if there was some way of putting a metagame tracker banner. Maybe grabbing deck names of the top few decks from another site. That would be really helpful.

@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.

As an Oath player I really like this, I also like that they will not be doing any thing prior to EW. This was a great move for WotC.

@botvinik Thanks! Didn't spend that much time reading Embiggen .

This guy is 5 types.

@optionparalysis
it was.

https://www.eternalcentral.com/so-many-insane-plays-episode-116-summer-2022-vintage-metagame-review/

I have no affiliation, just saw this on twitter.

I really enjoyed this. Probably your best content. Would love to see something similar on hoggak or PO.

I was looking at modern lists a while back and I noticed Crashing Footfalls was popular. Hypergenesis is also banned in that format. I wondered what the best thing I could do with cascade in vintage was, added one and one together and decided to make this.
Cascade gets alot of acceleration coming to vintage in the form of Simian and Elvish Spirit Guide. You also get the best pitch counters out there.
The ideal creatures to cascade into are griselbrand and emrakul. Chancellor of the annex is interesting because you can cascade it out and it is protection.

Here is a list,

Lands (14)
4 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Mana Confluence
1 Boeseiju, Who Shelters All
1 Cavern of Souls

Instants (14)
2 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will
4 Misdirection
4 Violent Outburst

Sorceries (2)
2 Hypergenesis

Creatures (30)
4 Chancellor of the Annex
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
4 Griselbrand
2 Maelstrom Wanderer
4 Sphinx of Foresight
4 Shardless Agent
4 Simian Spirit Guide

Most decks in vintage can vomit their hand out in one turn if they want to, so Hypergenesis is unilateral. The pitch magic and fast clock give you good combo matches. Some of the Bazaar matches (particularly Squee) are bad as well as Xerox.

Couple neat things,
This deck can be made entirely with foils.
It's pretty much entirely legacy legal.
It doesn't use anything too expensive and doesn't want to. Power and time vault would all get cast off of cascade, and this is not a bazaar or shop deck. There is a very strong argument for tabernacle in the side board.

This list needs optimization, and is just a talking point. I suggest you give it a whirl and see what you can do with it.

I'm in the market for some paper cards. I was looking on eBay and wasn't sure how authentic some of the cards are. Are people getting fakes of stuff like force of negations made these days? What about the foil etched versions.
In the past I've collected foreign editions. For the most part I haven't had to worry about fakes. I'm not sure how cautious I should be.
Thanks in advance.

@botvinik
This is the thread I think.
http://www.themanadrain.com/search?term=omnath&in=titles

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

@protoaddict
From what I've seen its really good, just needs a home.