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Slow the game down.Slow kill with Black Vise.Time Bomb/Rune of Protection or Parallax Tide/Ankh of Mishra combos for win.
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Cards that come to mind for this are, Equipoise, Mana Chains, Ghostly Prison.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I'd definitely use Ghostly Prison if it were vintage. Equipoise is cool.
I'm confused by your statement of, "If it were Vintage." Every card ever printed with the exception of the old ante cards and a few others are legal in vintage play. This one happens to be legal in Modern, Legacy and Vintage.
Sorry, I just mean the older style of artwork (mostly pre 8th edition). I realize that isn't actually what "vintage" means.
Actually Black Vise makes this deck Vintage legal only since Black Vise is banned in Legacy. And almost no card in this is legal in Modern ...But it's old school for sure. This is actually what decks looked like back then when we built the decks ourselves (nowadays R&D pre-builds them for us). About the deck:* Hoodwink has to go. The only benefit it has is that it only requires one colored mana but since you deck is almost mono-blue ... instead I would pack actual removal of sorts. Or, if you insist on that much bounce, what about Wash Out? It may be 4 mana but it gets rid of multiple threats and it doesn't target! As it is now you die to a single creature as long as it has hexproof.* The deck is slow ... there isn't that much we could do about it, but at least a bit:- I am a fan of cycling lands but not in this! You cannot afford that many lands that come into play tapped.- As it is, the deck is already Vintage. Might as well add a Sol Ring.* Planar CollapseYou don't have any creatures yourself and can't afford to wait until the opponent has four! Heck, you are bouncing his stuff and limiting the spells he can play, he will most likely never have 4 creatures in play! I think you have to bite the bullet and go up to 4 mana, adding Wrath of God instead. Better a more expensive card that does it's job than a cheaper one that will fail every single time you need it!One of the Wraths could be Balance as long as you stay Vintage.* Ivory Tower would be a wonderful way of keeping you alive.* You sideboard is cards you consider adding, right? Cards that didn't make the cut? Because it won't work as a real sideboard (besides being 19 cards). A sideboard should cover the weaknesses of the deck and problems you might run into:- You lack permanent removal spells. Oblivion Ring, Dismantling Blow, something like this.- Creatures with come into play effects would be very annoying for you, Torpor Orb solves this. Humility would even be better but costs more mana.- Burn decks circumvent about all your defenses. Add Douse to deal with them. Especially with those Arcane Labs, a Douse would mean game.
Thanks for the excellent suggestions. I admire your deck building skills so I respect your opinion. This, and most of my decks are casual and for games with 3-4 players. The people I play with don't have very powerful decks so I usually build mine with a $10-$20 budget. Wrath of God, Humility and Sol Ring, therefore are too expensive. Balance and Wash Out are affordable though.The sideboard is as you guessed; cards that didn't make the cut. I have never actually used a sideboard before. I just put cards that I want to remember there in case I want to swap something out in the future. Thanks again Puschkin.
Sol Ring has been printed in every single Commander deck (that's 15 so far), it has dropped in value dramatically.Wrath of God was just a placeholder name for the type of effect. Planar Collapse certainly won't work. If Wrath is not allowed due to budget reasons, try False Prophet or Evacuation.If you like my suggestions, why didn't you upvote the comment? Just asking because I made the observation that detailed comments are less likely to get upvotes than "Cool deck, bro" type of one-liners.
By the way, you can like your own posts once, I've seen a few of your posts having 0 likes, so I know you haven't upvoted yourself :D
Yeah, but why would I do that? I am not craving for attention, I was just wondering why the chance for upvotes seems to be antiproportional to the quality of the content.Another fun thing: I wasn't active for more than a year now and wondered how many, if any at all new messages there will be. Yours is the only one ... strange coincidence that you commented this week, but also noteworthy that it is Wicked Darkman - every odd year our paths cross :) So, I conclude, only a select few old farts like us will ever use deck search and comment on older content. I have tons of decks here and most of them should be interesting for anyone playing casual/multiplayer, but there was not a single hit. I know that forum culture is dying but am still somehow shocked how severe it actually is.These are more scientific type of observations, if you know what I mean. You most likely do :)
Thinking about it, since I never cancel subscriptions, it means all those hundreds of decks I commented on didn't get any new replies either.
The "like yourself" was for 1111222334 :DI tried to get to you because I hoped you could remember something, but I managed to find out the info on my own anyways. If you can remember the concepts I had around familiarity where I looked at manasolutions based on how many numbers they shared?Half a year ago I read an article about some scientist who had done the same trick to analyse how closely related stars are chemicaly. It turns out they used a method a frenchman had created to measure the familiarity of biological creatures by comparing shared features.I wanted to know around when I wrote about familiarity to see if I was first with the concept, but it turns out the frenchman beat me by being 5 years faster.Since then I've concluded that if animals, stars and manasolutions can be analysed this way, why shouldn't "anything" be able to be viewed that way, so I have started to use it to analyse football-results again and have had some progress, where my current results are beating my older results, and I need just a little more analysis to start earning money through safe betting. (So far my winnings are -137 kr each week, but since it's all by the numbers I actually don't lose any real money) I thought you might have some fun in learning that after close to 10 years, I'm almost back at where i was while phyrexia.com was alive :)I think the reasons why the young ones aren't getting us old ones is because they think the internet have everything they need, and in my eyes the internet has really degraded as a datasearching tool, so they've become lured into a false sense of safety and think they can become independant by surfing. It's up to us old ones to teach them that their knowledgebase have devolved :D
I remember something like this, but you had a different term for it and I can't recall it. And you were past mana solutions when you intoduced that concept. AH, how I miss Phyrexia. It's still up BTW, at least parts of it, including the forum (which is deactivated for posting but can still be browsed). Unfortunatley it covers only the last two years of it's existance.
I've been visiting it a couple of times to print some of my old stuff, I have an extensive archive of all my mtg-work, and have had a billion of theories since phyrexia fell and I was "trolled" out of mtgsalvation :D Like this one:https://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/the-diversity-threshold/