I'm not sure that you can afford to run 2 Delve spells without 4x Preordain and/or Dack Fayden. You just won't fill your graveyard fast enough.
I think you should slot in at least one Snapcaster Mage, too, because it's just too good with Flash after your first one gets countered.
I took great joy in being able to provide @Solemn_Storm with an actual copy of Caustic Caterpillar for his NYSE sideboard, replacing the proxy he had made.
@The-Atog-Lord said in Vintage Challenge - 7/8/2017:
But an Atog just did. The Gifts deck is good.
Until tonight, I had never seen an Atog Manamorphose before.
@p3temangus Haha, I was thinking about both Confluence and Sylvan! And yeah, I took Crucible out of the 75 without thinking about that upside...
In my recent games with this deck, I've often felt as if I've had good cards in hand, but been unable to cast them. It hasn't been immediately clear if this was just bad luck, or bad mulligan decisions, or 3 DRS not being quite enough. Anyway I'm now trying a build with 4 DRS.
About half the posts in this thread do more to hurt interest in the Vintage format than the DCI could ever hope to do.
I rarely post, but I'm sufficiently dismayed by this thread, and all the other recent threads like it, that I felt unable to resist.
We have a simple request from Matt and Ryan that folks please not post gripes, snide remarks, anger, insults, etc. in their metagame report threads. This isn't unreasonable. It's probably very disheartening to do all the work they do, share it with the community, and have the overall response be one of vitriol -- regardless of where that vitriol is directed.
Let's be very clear. They aren't saying "don't post it anywhere", they're saying "please don't post this in direct response to my blood, sweat, and tears". I don't think that's much of an imposition, and it seems to me that honoring that request is the reasonable, empathetic thing to do.
I'd also like to put out a general call for empathy in this forum. It's especially important when discussing B&R and the metagame, because Magic players often personally identify with their favorite strategies, and when discussing B&R it's easy to feel like the stakes are high.
I think we'd all be a lot better off if we could collectively make an effort to be kinder to each other. Assume good faith and intelligence of others. Don't say things in a post that you wouldn't say to someone's face. Seek to find common ground instead of setting out to make caricatures of how you perceive the 'opposition'. Be patient with the metagame and with each other. And don't make posts that aren't how you'd like to be remembered as a human being.
I doubt I'm alone in thinking that we have a severe degree of polarization, of entrenched viewpoints, and of the invective that comes with that. It's tiring! And it can easily become a downwards spiral that drives good contributions out of the community.
Be well, folks.
@BazaarOfBaghdad said in Deck Names on MTGGoldfish:
@desolutionist said in Deck Names on MTGGoldfish:
Just a catalog of tournament results. ... mtgoldfish cycles them out of the database.
Partially true, if you click on a user's name, it still has a record of all their decklists that were ever live on the site.
Also, if you search for a particular card in decks, you can set a date range going backwards in time arbitrarily far. For instance: http://bit.ly/2qBw1R1
@ChubbyRain How'd you find this? Guessed the URL?
edit: nevermind; the challenges finally appeared on the results list page.
Looks like WotC has posted MTGO decklists for the last two days, but the Challenges are nowhere to be found
http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/deck-lists-magic-online-products-game-info
Anyone know anything about this?