I feel like Blood Moon is a heavily underplayed card in vintage. It's not quite as oppressive as in Legacy, more akin to Modern due to moxes. Maybe if Shops played Red for Blood Moon, I've played red prison in Modern a lot and it's incredibly strong and I feel like this could work in Vintage.
Thanks everyone for the feedback! I decided that adding more artifacts and white for mentor + swords would be worth playing, I will add some results after testing
Mainboard
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Black Lotus
1x Blightsteel Colossus
1x Brainstorm
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Dig Through Time
2x Flooded Strand
1x Flusterstorm
4x Force of Will
2x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1x Karn, Scion of Urza
1x Library of Alexandria
1x Mana Crypt
4x Mana Drain (LEG)
4x Mental Misstep
3x Mind Twist
2x Mission Briefing
2x Misty Rainforest
1x Monastery Mentor
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Opal
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Paradoxical Outcome
3x Polluted Delta
2x Scalding Tarn
1x Seat of the Synod
1x Sol Ring
1x Strip Mine
1x Supreme Verdict
3x Swords to Plowshares
1x Tendrils of Agony
1x Time Walk
1x Tinker
1x Treasure Cruise
2x Tundra
2x Underground Sea
Sideboard
2x Chain of Vapor
4x Hurkyl's Recall
4x Leyline of the Void
2x Mindbreak Trap
2x Supreme Verdict
1x Swords to Plowshares
I feel like, one card that has the potential to be insane in the right environment is City in a Bottle, prepare your phones fore much googling. Karakas is a way better suggestion though.
Hello TMD
One card that I think is sorely underplayed in vintage is mind twist. When this card was the scourge of all formats it was combined with mana drain to demolish your opponents hand. It is said that it mind twist resolves you often loose on the spot. So, onto the list!
This is something that I threw together quickly as a brain fart, unfortunately I'm away from my computer this weekend and unable to test it at all online.
This version is very control heavy, with Jace as the only win condition and a ton of interaction. What does TMD think of my terrible brew?
Yesterday I loaded up Jeskai Mentor online and noticed it runs significantly more permission than other vintage decks I've played. So my question to you all is, how much permission do you run?
@john-cox isn't gifts just even slower intuition/realms uncharted in this deck?
Unrestricting Fastbond would be cool. Lands would significantly change the vintage meta. The problem would be with all the new Fastbond decks available. It's hard to turn down hands with Fastbond serveral lands and a major threat that wins the game like Tezzeret or Jace
For those unaware flash is one of the stupidest cards ever printed. The fact you can instantly kill someone at instant speed with protection for 2 mana with protean hulk is dumb.
Anyway another card that pairs well with flash is academy rector. When academy rector dies you exile it and search for a enchantment and put it into play.
So how viable is a flash rector deck? Is it better to go for the "I win" enchantments like omniscience and eldrazi conscription or for silver bullets like energy flux and runed halo? Which colours are right to play, obviously blue for flash, white for rector, and black for tutors + viscera seer, but is it worth adding red or green?
Would a UW balance deck be competitive in the current meta? Would unrestricting this card alter the meta in any major way?