A Vintage deck I'm working on.

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4 Duress
4 Accumulated Knowledge
3 Annul
4 Force of Will
1 Ancestrial Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Gush
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Cunning Wish
4 Diabolic Edict
4 Counterspell
4 Brainstorm
3 Pyschatog
1 Wonder
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
2 Tropical Forest
4 Polluted Delta
4 Fooded Strand
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine

We're allowed 10 proxies at our local Vintage tournments. Mine are
Library of Alexandria, Mox Jet, Mox Sapphire, Ancestrial Recall, Time
Walk, 2x Force of Will and 3 sideboarded cards.

I don't want to show my sideboard just yet. Any advice (don't tell me
not to play it!) would be appreciated.

I will write that I do have Wastelands x3 s.b., cause if I don't somone
will point it out. Thanks.

 

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First thing i notice is the inclusion of Yawgmoth's Will, i seriously doubt
that you'll need it in a deck w/ Tog. For one thing the Will and Tog
seriously work against each other and using the Will isn't going to win you
the game with a Tog when your taking its primary pumping source away. I
would run Demonic Tutor over the Will in this deck, i would put Vampiric
Tutor in also since you have brainstorm and AK.

Couterspell should be Mana Drain period no questions asked you have 10
proxies? then 4 Mana Drain, 1 Recall, 1 Sapphire, 1 Jet, 1 Library, 1
Lotus(no LOTUS!?!) and 1 other whatever you need. Personally i would use it
for Berserk in the board and get the 2 other force's you need, they really
aren't that hard to get. If you have Berserk you only need to make the tog
+10/+10 to be lethal if they don't have a blocker but for everything +1/+1
the tog get +2/+2 so you can circumnavigate blockers like a hot knife
through butter.

If your going the AK route i would serious look into Intuition because it
fills the yard with 3 cards and 1 in hand, that is +3/+3 for the tog right
there. very good stuff.

Personally, i wouldn't play Diabolic Edict, but then again i probably
wouldn't have creature removal MD anyway, but i guess it depends on your
meta, if i had a 10 proxy tourney instead of 5 i would play Control Slaver
because i have 5/3 right now and would much rather have be playing a Mana
Drain deck.

so i would recommend:

-4 Counterspell
-4 Diabolic Edict
-1 Yawgmoth's Will
-1 Wonder
-1 Time Walk

+4 Mana Drain
+3 Intuition
+1 Cunning Wish
+1 Lotus
+1 Vampiric Tutor
+1 Demonic Tutor

Also, i would very seriously reconsidering your mana base, I'm guessing all
the Volcanic Island and Tropical Forest is for some fancy stuff in the board
that you didn't post. I play T1, i don't play Standard, i dabble a little
bit in Ext. i don't play T1.5, i play T1. Your deck will die instantly to
Crucible/Wasteland Lock. You need to run basic land because you will not
have a chance to quickly get out of it and if they have Sundering Titan
anywhere in the SB or MD this is almost instant doom for you. I would high
recommend reworking the mana base to include islands and a decent amount
like 5 or 6. Also i would recommend Crucible either MD or SB for this deck
to go with those wastelands and that stripmine.

 

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Im not saying you should run this deck but, it is a great deck to play,
extremely consistent turn 1/2/3 win and is probably cheaper to build than
the Tog deck in a 10 proxy. Plus it's combo and i just love playing combo
but that's me, if you don't play it i would recommend studying it to learn
how to stop it though because it really wouldn't surprise me if this isn't
one of the T8 decks in the tourney.

Meandeck TPS

The Kill
4 Tendrils of Agony
1 Yawgmoth's Will

Search/Draw
4 Spoils of the Vault
4 Night's Whisper
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Brainstorm
1 Necropotence
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Demonic Consultation

Mana:
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Darkwater Egg
4 Dark Ritual
4 Cabal Ritual
4 Land Grant
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Black Lotus
5 Moxen
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Chrome Mox
1 Windswept Heath
1 Bayou
1 Tropical Island

Very simple combo deck, all you think about is 'what do I have to do to-to
have 2BB to play ToA with a storm of at least 9.'

In a 10 proxy you could proxy:
5 Moxen
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mana Crypt
1 Bayou
1 Tropical Island

The other cards in the deck would cost less than 40 bucks to get on eBay,
the only other expensive cards are Chrome Mox, and Yawgmoth's Will (Mox
~$12, Will ~$12-15).

Actually a lot of easier to play than it looks if you look @ it that way. gl
with your tourney with what ever you decide to play.

I guess this is more for other people too, if the have 10 proxy T1, this is
a fantastic deck to play if you have the chance try it out.

 

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On 2005-03-11, Darkwvlf <darkwvlf@isp.com> wrote:
> Im not saying you should run this deck but, it is a great deck to play,
> extremely consistent turn 1/2/3 win and is probably cheaper to build than
> the Tog deck in a 10 proxy. Plus it's combo and i just love playing combo

(leaving the decklist at the bottom)

Thank you for posting this. I don't have many of the cards from this era, but
would love to try playing this. I do have a grim monolith, would that fit
into this deck?

I think decks like this can be good for players (like me) that have mostly
played standard and dabbled with Extended. Also, gives me a chance to use a
few cards I can't use otherwise that are sitting in my binders from when I
used to play a while back.

thank you,
K

> The Kill
> 4 Tendrils of Agony
> 1 Yawgmoth's Will
>
> Search/Draw
> 4 Spoils of the Vault
> 4 Night's Whisper
> 4 Sleight of Hand
> 4 Brainstorm
> 1 Necropotence
> 1 Ancestral Recall
> 1 Demonic Tutor
> 1 Demonic Consultation
>
> Mana:
> 4 Chromatic Sphere
> 4 Darkwater Egg
> 4 Dark Ritual
> 4 Cabal Ritual
> 4 Land Grant
> 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
> 1 Black Lotus
> 5 Moxen
> 1 Lotus Petal
> 1 Mana Vault
> 1 Sol Ring
> 1 Mana Crypt
> 1 Chrome Mox
> 1 Windswept Heath
> 1 Bayou
> 1 Tropical Island


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