@craw_advantage said in Proxy Rules:

I voted for "X" and I'm going to set X=75 (Battle of Wits players are on their own). I understand no-proxy tournaments but I don't really understand "some but not all" proxy tournaments. It's kind of a bummer because I'd love to try to get a group of friends together (who no longer play competitive Magic regularly) to attend a local tournament, but it definitely isn't going to happen with the expense involved even at the fifteen-proxy level. Although maybe part of the purpose is to keep the scrubs out, in which case mission accomplished.

I think part of the rationale for partial proxy tournaments, at least historically, has been that most events are held at stores trying are trying to sell Magic cards to players. I doubt in most cases there's any "keep the scrubs out" motivation behind it.

There's still monthly Vintage in the Boston area at Gamingetc in Acton. I think that's the only regular Boston area Vintage now that Scholars has closed, sadly.

This was a really enjoyable episode, I love wonky Workshop decks, and always have. Your discussion of Tiny Robots led me to dig up the old TMD thread about a deck I worked on back in 2004 that shares a lot of strategic similarities with Tiny Robots:
http://www.archive.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=18620.0
Thanks for motivating me to take a fun trip down memory lane!

Agree with that decision, no deck is dominant or problematic at the moment.

Those Revised ones make me so happy. Great work!

@arty said in Survival Salad:

Hey guys! Long time Vintage player but haven't played too much recently as I haven't been enjoying the format as much. That being said, I decided to go to Champs and now I'm trying to decide what deck to play. I like that it attacks the format from a different angle and it looks like a TON of fun to play. My question is, if Champs was tomorrow, what list would you sleeve up? I've seen varying lists online and would like to test the next few days on MODO. Thanks!

I'd still go with the GUW list that won Asia Vintage Champs, -Spell Queller, +Dryad Militant. I don't think you need red or black to have a good shot against the field. Others will likely disagree, so you may have to try multiple versions and see which you like best.

I still feel like the Bant Survival deck that won Asia Vintage Champs, perhaps with a few tweaks, strikes the right balance of attacking PO without sacrificing other matchups too much. Having access to five Stony/Rod after sideboard along with Chalice, Thalia, and a fast clock means the deck is well prepared for that matchup and still has game against the other decks in the format.

One thing I'd love to see more of is gameplay videos that aren't just streams posted after the fact. I get why we don't have a lot of these, since they take more editing work and time commitment than just posting a stream, but I'd love to have more of these.

@moorebrother1 said in Is Old School killing paper Vintage?:

Based on all of comments to this thread maybe Vintage should take page from Old School and hold more regional events with very small prize pool and the proceeds going mostly to charity.

The Old School events are getting more that 80 players and they are drawing players from all over the country. If there are issues getting a monthly event fired in local areas maybe do a yearly or bi-yearly event to get a better draw. If this was done on a regional level we could have more events with more people. The EV would be next to zero but there would be more paper Vintage played.

This is something I could get behind. I know some local card store owners would be down with this my area.

I dunno, I've run an annual full-proxy charity Vintage event the last two years with a small prize pool in an area that doesn't get a ton of Vintage events, and haven't broken the 20 player mark either time. I really marketed the hell out of it this year too, so I don't know that what you're describing is the solution.

@gkraigher I don't think Surgical (or graveyard hate in general) is particularly good against Dark Ritual Storm, but it does seem good in the other matchups you mentioned.