wickeddarkman

Wotc = wizards of the coast. The name of the publishing game group before tsr bought them.
And it's actually vorthos. Back when magic started to be a big business they paid to get a team to analyse what players wanted from the game and build up some psychological profiles. They started out with 5 player types and gave them names, one was spike. Later it was discovered that there were more playertypes and I think you are one of those, named vorthos.

Heh, wotc has a name for your playertype,
I used to be the same before I got competitive.
What is it "lorthos" ?
Spike is the playertype I remember the most.

Hem, hem,
I told you battle of wits should be played with tutoring cards.
Apart from lands your deck must consist of 1 battle of wits, 1 pact of negation, and the rest should be tutor cards, supported by fillers like metamorphosis, streetwraith, and similar.

Yup, looking at aboriginal art koalas have space helmets.

Back then it was lilo & stitch that did it for me.
I still keep track of some stuff and the zootopia poster was kinda in that class.
There was true science mixed with it, like coala's have fingerprints.

Or did you mean redemption :)

Looks like I forgot it :)
That's pretty rare;)

Kazzong: the funniest thing back then was that they first attacked the game with christian morality and not soon after they created "redemption" I think it was called? Which had biblical figures and a fight between good and evil.
I laughed a lot ar that game, but from a collecters view it might be worth a lot more now because it's more rare.
Does anyone know the fate of it?

And everyone can be naive, about 15 years ago or so I was pretty certain coala's were evil and the founders of illuminati.
The clues were out there...

Vintage is a pretty violent format that punishes you for not having protection against combo.

The key to battle of wits + yorion is to figure out how many cards will be in your deck when battle hits play. Also I don't think there will be a problem with stating that your deck is for example a 198 card deck with 20 cards added by yorion.

I find companions to be a very fresh initiative in magic from a desigpoint.
I'm unlikely to be one that uses them, as I prefer to have a full range of cards selection when building decks.

Using this card effectively halves your selection pool, which is a hefty price.

The most interesting thing is how it also messes with manacurves. The more people uses companions the more it will affect the mana of decks, blurring guidelines forevermore.
The fun thing about that, is that that's actually old news. This has been ongoing for years, and people still follow the old rules like 1/3 lands. Do you see how complete the illusion is?

Companions will also lead to the largest tag ever in mtgvaults history, and in a weak attempt to counter it, I've started tagging my own decks as companion less but it creates the same problem.

Congrats on being the first to adopt the companion tag though, that's forerunner material ;)

We were also on the ancient web, bdominia, phyrexia.com, read stuff from the founders of magic theory, ancient stuff like that. My own interest for the web back then was fuelled by the need for knowing what decks were around.
It was actually more complex times, but happier.

Uh, party like it's 1964 :)

What's the name of that?

Yeah, I'd also, wish for a print proxy edition, it would make my evolution projects easier.

The cards are certainly from 2011, no question about that,
But I think the eldrazi were to blame.
I have testdecks of some of the oldest eldrazi decks there is. I could be persuaded to test out cawblade against them.
I do have other projects so we could also let it lie ;)

At that time I was building up an archive of 5000+ decklists.
I never saw that kind of abandonment until the eldrazi arrived.
The abandonment was done by older players who had spent years collecting and building decks.
When new players en mass joined the eldrazi frenzy and were able to beat all of the old players who didn't join the eldrazi the old players complained A LOT. when wotc failed to comply immediately the abandonment started

Are you sure of the timelines in here?
I've always kept a lot of lists on the meta.

Both stoneforge and Jace were banned before eldrazi were printed.
And at the height of the eldrazi era 60% of the meta was eldrazi, the meta was rather easy to analyse.

Valakut doesn't fit the timeline either if my memory serves me well

Later Jace got unbanned perhaps 1-2 years ago, but I never saw stone forge becoming legal again.

How recent is this?

Serum powder might be something to consider in this.

Consistency is not for beginners. First they need to learn to deal with the many situations a deck involves, then you teach them consistency, but consistency does not win in the long run. It may win by luck, but in the average battle against a well made deck the deck with most tricks win the game. And that means consistently versatile which is sort of not consistent in using fewer cards, but it's consistent in numbers of game mechanics.

Jessie: you might want to check out the tag beginner as well ;)

Kazzong:
Seems like a well built series. I wonder why people only upvoted the white deck.
That's typical mtgvault madness.