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Darksteel Plate!

Yep, there's a reason Tolarian Academy got banned or restricted in every format... :)

I've always been surprised at the fact that nobody's turned Gaea's Cradle into a Legacy-winning powerhouse deck yet. It seems so plausible that it could happen...

don't forget Woodland Changeling! :)

This deck is just begging for Thran Quarry. It's *pleading* for Thran Quarry. It's reaching out with a melodramatic hyperextended grasping lunge at Thran Quarry...

I'd probably swap the 2 Disperse with the 2 sideboarded Day of Judgment, as Stag + Day / Venser + Day is amazingly powerful. No guarantees that'll make the deck more playable.

How frequently do you get the metalcraft replacement on Dispatch? I'd be testing a four-of, but that might be me being too optimistic about metalcraft.

Did Journey to Nowhere rotate out? gatherer.wizards.com still lists it as legal in Standard under the Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret printing, but that doesn't make sense to me...

You might enjoy the card Privileged Position -- with two copies in play, your permanents can't be targeted. It pairs well with Leyline of Sanctity and Island Sanctuary or Blazing Archon...

Stuffy Doll + suspended Shivan Meteor = Sephiroth's Meteor from Final Fantasy VII

...nice. :)

There's no need to make this a deck; this is what the forums are for.

Neat deck. Alternate mana acceleration possibilities to look into:
Ancient Tomb
City of Traitors
Cloudpost (especially along with Glimmerpost)

Hey, awesome job rigging up a Turn 1 win in Standard. Even if it's rarely achieved, just demonstrating that it's possible is an accomplishment. Well done!

Might be true in Standard/Extended, but in Legacy, there are also mono-red Dragon Stompy and weird-arsed mono-blue Stompy decks (based on Sea Drake). Aggro's usually about accumulating damage from multiple cheap threats like Wild Nacatl and Tarmogoyf. The Stompy decks are not really "aggro" because they focus on cheating mana acceleration to drop a few huge creatures fairly early, using Ancient Tomb and City of Traitors, the red variant uses acceleration like Seething Song and Simian Spirit Guide, the blue version (which I have never understood to save my life) uses Mox Diamond and Chrome Mox and junk like that.

This is a great idea. I really think a blue-black Torpor Dreadnought deck could be something special, with Stifle and Hunted Phantasm and Hunted Horror. I'll try to build it and post to MTG Vault some time today.

True. I hope that Praetor's Grasp sees some Vintage play. It's insane. Steal their Ancestral Recall? Or their Time Vault? Or hell even swipe a Force of Will, or a Lodestone Golem versus MUD? ... wow. wow.

...I just hope the 1BB casting cost doesn't make it infeasible to use in Vintage. The three-mana tolerance is awfully low these days.

Heh, my first reaction to seeing the Phyrexian sneak preview was, "Oh my god, Surgical Extraction, oh my god. ... ... I bet surewhynot's pretty damn excited over this."

:)

Stuff like this is what the forums are for...

Other options to look at --

Blackmail
Plague Witch
Scepter of Fugue
Zombie Infestation

...especially those last two

You could use Strongarm Tactics or Rotting Rats or Smallpox or (ehh) Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace with some red mana sources...

Not to mention, you now run the risk of a 1 in 3 chance that casting Treasure Hunt will give you a Serum Powder and no Manabond...

Each time you mulligan, you draw one less card than before. The chance you'll get your Treasure Hunt by mulligan is only 38.6%, and that's assuming you mulligan all the way down to one card, which is very dangerous. If you only let yourself mulligan down to five cards, then your likelihood of getting your Treasure Hunt is only 27.2%.

If you compute the likelihood of drawing Treasure Hunt *and* a blue mana source by your second turn, you actually dip slightly below a 1/3 chance of success, and that's assuming you mulligan down to one card.

It just won't work often enough to be a reliable strategy. Otherwise people would actually play a deck with 1 Fastbond and some lands and some Banefire type spells, and then mulligan for Fastbond.

Only one Dawnbringer? Best bomb-combo card in the deck and everybody has one too many of those FNM foils of her in their junk binder. Could swap out Karmic Guide for a second Dawnbringer or swap out one of the Boros angels.

Should also include one Serra Angel. Just 'cause, man. The classic that started it all. You could probably get one of the great-looking Revised edition ones for the price of a cup of coffee.

As for Liliana Vess, there's only one way to answer that question: Show her the card. Does she frown, or do her eyes light up with possibility? If she likes it, swap a couple Vess for a couple Funeral Charms. If she doesn't, no sense trying to fit it in, right? :-)

...or Terravore.