@stormanimagus said in Deal Me In Games August Event Results:

Joe needs to stop calling "Jeskai Mentor" "UWR Humans." Incorrect naming is annoying.

Joe calls it humans. I call it uwr instead of Jeskai because those names came out while I was on a break from magic and I can never which is bant or jeskai or whatever.

@cleverpseudonym

We used to have it but we do not anymore.

It takes a lot of time to handle it and the person who used to do that (Roger Riera) does more than enough for the community already

I’m kinda like Lone Wolf and Cub from Shogun Assassin.

Rector Flash, nice! Thanks for posting the decklists.

Awesome - can't wait to check this out! Also, it makes me happy to see Dredge win a big event.

Thanks fishman! Looks like great fun and a strong field. Even if im not playing anymore, I remember I bought a mox ruby from you many years ago and it was great. Cheers!

I really like the omnitell deck.
If the author is on-line he can open a primer on the deck.

@stuart said in 27 May 2018: Romancing The Stones 4 (24 players in Austin, TX):

@yayjinaz We settled on running them approx every 6 weeks because

it's the most amount of time we as organizers could afford to devote to running these, and

Buncha wimps out there in Austin, I tell you what

@feldon808 No. I've only got Legacy Elves and Aluren built on MTGO right now, buying a house in a few weeks so money's a bit too tight to sink the $200 in TIX to build this out. This might be a hair too slow as it sits right now it's a turn 4-5 deck to combo off, but playing control elements earlier may smooth that out. This is a list in a vacuum too, I haven't played this build anywhere but solitaire so far. But having played the Legacy deck for years it feels correct solitairing.

Good to see Omar on Wizards.

@stsung I mostly agree on what you said, it's usually one or more of those reasons, depending on the specific group of players and also the few chances of playing Vintage just generate a loop (few tournaments- > few "prepared" players -> low attendance/competition -> fewer tournaments etc.)

The Danish guys are just sort of a proof of that: Thiim came 9th with Traxos (that'd be the Shops specialist on a close-to-stock list) and Henrik made top 8 with something that looks close to unplayable (Eldrazi + actual Spheres?! that'd be the veteran player on a questionable deck.

Here we have also another kind of player, those that used to be REALLY good back in the days and just are not up to date anymore, but it's hard to show them without having them play on MODO or in the US. They're just so much better equipped than the average Vintage player that they can show up with anything and being a contender, especially on stuff that punishes the unprepared like Standstill, Remora, etc.

@log said in EW Europe, 2018 - Congrats to Alfonso Zarzoso on Mentor!:
a manabase much like @13NoVa EW NA deck.

Funny enough, I am most likely playing Jeskai at SCGCon, and I am going to keep the exact same mana base. Strip Mine is a gimmick that sometimes feels great, but often feels horrible. And why cripple yourself with a 14 card sideboard?

Top16 decklists have been published in the first post.

Enjoy!

@ribby Thanks. We've been there for a while, IMO. The most common mode of Fiery Confluence was the "6 to opponent's face" as it closed out the game in a hurry with life-loss and Bolt-Snap-Bolt. I think Mentor getting restricted along with Gush made the control role worse and incentivized decks to try and exploit tempo more effectively, with cards like Wasteland. Shops is still the best tempo deck, but the URx decks can definitely fit into that role.

Edit: Also, Smash on a Precursor Golem is so good. About as good as Fiery Confluence on Precursor.