About a year or two ago, at a quebec type 1 tourny, some one top 8'd with a 5c elementals deck, which used ingot chewer, mull drifter, and a bunch of duress effects as disruption. Does anyone know where to find this list? It seems like a really cool deck.
Here is a deck from Quebec from a vintage tourney which ran Ingot Chewer, Shriekmaw & Duress - no Mulldrifter - I wouldn't really describe it as 5ColorElementals though.
The only vintage deck that really uses Mulldrifter is Dragon.
Here is the listing I found using Mulldrifter - and it happens to be from Quebec.
The interesting thing about us legacy players is that we consider Force of Will, Dark Ritual, Blood Moon, Tarmogoyf and Swords to Plowshare to be fair.
I really don't see how that could be at all competitive. It's not particularly fast, it doesn't have any counterspells, and it only has a small amount of disruption. You have pretty much no protection against anyone who tries to kill you.
It seems to me the only way this will win is if the opponent gets a horrible, slow draw.
Elementals really don't have a place in Vintage. Maybe there's a deck in Legacy with them?
That deck won big time because everybody was saying exactly what you are saying, and it was in the Gush era.
It's excedingly fast thanks to smokebraider acceleration, it has a great toolbox and superior tutoring means thanks to flamekin harbinger and it does use proactive disruption to hinder combo and control.
The deck looks awkward, but it's really playable. And it mostly is so because traditionally, vintage players refuse to aknowledge that it is.
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The interesting thing about us legacy players is that we consider Force of Will, Dark Ritual, Blood Moon, Tarmogoyf and Swords to Plowshare to be fair.
It actually tickles me that there are several tribes out of Lorwyn that are Vintage worthy -Elves, Elementals & Faeries. Now I am not crazy about any of these tribes as decks, Elves has obviously seen the most play and the Elemental deck above I wouldn't consider very viable in most metagames, while Faeries as a "tribe" I think may be overstating it, but Spellstutter has seen some play.
Looking forward to your revised build, I am doubtful about it's playability, but maybe you will prove me wrong.
I remember this one. For those that think it's a total joke.......I would do some research. I know it was rogue, but it did have some success. Xwt hit this on the head! If you weren't prepared to face this deck {Because it is/was rogue} then you would understand the sneak attack it had.
S.M.
That deck won big time because everybody was saying exactly what you are saying, and it was in the Gush era.
It's excedingly fast thanks to smokebraider acceleration, it has a great toolbox and superior tutoring means thanks to flamekin harbinger and it does use proactive disruption to hinder combo and control.
The deck looks awkward, but it's really playable. And it mostly is so because traditionally, vintage players refuse to aknowledge that it is.
Here is a deck from Quebec from a vintage tourney which ran Ingot Chewer, Shriekmaw & Duress - no Mulldrifter - I wouldn't really describe it as 5ColorElementals though.
The only vintage deck that really uses Mulldrifter is Dragon.
Here is the listing I found using Mulldrifter - and it happens to be from Quebec.
http://www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=19434
4 Incandescent Soulstoke
4 Mulldrifter
4 Flamekin Harbinger
4 Smokebraider
1 Mournwhelk
1 Horde of Notions
1 Ingot Chewer
1 Nameless Inversion
1 Deepfire Elemental
2 Thoughtseize
3 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Duress
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Bloodstained Mire
4 Polluted Delta
3 Ancient Tomb
3 Badland
3 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Dust Elemental
2 Aethersnipe
1 Faultgrinder
1 Virelame sangpyre
1 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Nameless Inversion
3 Shriekmaw
2 Ashling the Pilgrim
http://mtgquebec.com/viewtopic.php?t=3586
thanks a ton, now I'df like to hear everyone's opinion on the deck, and how they might adjust it to our current meta game.
It seems to me the only way this will win is if the opponent gets a horrible, slow draw.
Elementals really don't have a place in Vintage. Maybe there's a deck in Legacy with them?
It's excedingly fast thanks to smokebraider acceleration, it has a great toolbox and superior tutoring means thanks to flamekin harbinger and it does use proactive disruption to hinder combo and control.
The deck looks awkward, but it's really playable. And it mostly is so because traditionally, vintage players refuse to aknowledge that it is.
Looking forward to your revised build, I am doubtful about it's playability, but maybe you will prove me wrong.
S.M.