Well I want to get into Vintage. And it helps with the 10 proxie card rule. I can't spend hundreds until I move out so I want to know it Manaless ichorid is a good choice? I have everything but the Bazaar of Bagdad.
Mana less ichorid is a good starting point, assuming you just want to play vintage. It's probably not going to get you stapls for other decks, but it's easy to play with.
The deck is easy to play and cheap. The one thing going against the deck is it's susceptibility to grave hate. If your metagame is very prepared to hate out Ichorid; Fish might be a better deck choice.
I find it hard to believe that "its afraid of blockers". A 20/20+ trampling ghoul or a dozen or so hasted 3/3 zombies isn't exactly a pushover in combat.
Besides, what's your point? Are you saying that Ichorid is no good because you can beat it with a block deck?
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The one problem with having Ichorid be your starter deck is the fact that the cards you are going to be buying are not useful in other decks in Vintage. Essentially, once you move on, you have to start over again. If you go with something else, like fish, then you can at least use the Force of Wills toward your next deck, at least most likely.
That being said, Ichorid is a pretty powerful deck right now. It's not amazing, but it is a good a place as any to start.
I also wrote an article on this a bit ago, if you're interested:
Its more actually that Ichorid seemed weak in the dredge deck. The Ichorid was only a 3/1 Haste that kept coming back, but the army of 3/3 ghouls was scarry.
These days the Ichorids are used more to pay Dread Return's flashback cost (yielding more token creatures with Bridge) than they are for attacking.
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Ichorid is a good deck to start with just to get a feel of the Vintage game, which just happens to win a lot. It's the easiest viable Vintage deck to play, supplanting Fish.
Since you're going to be using it with 10 proxies, it's really cheap to build. I'd say go and try it out, even if for nothing more than to acquaint yourself with the Vintage players and decks in your area.
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However, so far the best finish that ichorid has had (using starcity database) is 3rd. In SCG Roanoke, it landed 14th.
In other words, don't expect to be landing #1 spots that often.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
Besides, what's your point? Are you saying that Ichorid is no good because you can beat it with a block deck?
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
That being said, Ichorid is a pretty powerful deck right now. It's not amazing, but it is a good a place as any to start.
I also wrote an article on this a bit ago, if you're interested:
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These days the Ichorids are used more to pay Dread Return's flashback cost (yielding more token creatures with Bridge) than they are for attacking.
Since you're going to be using it with 10 proxies, it's really cheap to build. I'd say go and try it out, even if for nothing more than to acquaint yourself with the Vintage players and decks in your area.