MTG Salvation

I don't play vintage often, but when I do, this is what I play. I sling my life total around dangerously, and I usually lose game 1 against control, but as long as I enjoy myself right?

Possible Turn 1 Kills:

Fetch for Bayou OR play Bayou OR play Overgrown Tomb untapped. Cast Dark Ritual OR crack Black Lotus for black. Cast False Cure. Cast some sort of combination of Skyshroud Cutter and/or Reverent Silence. Cast Bond of Agony paying your opponent's life total.

Another option would be like above, although Overgrown Tomb is not an option for this one. Replace the casting of False Cure with a Sign in Blood targeting your opponent. Cast Bond of Agony paying your opponent's life total.

On the draw - If your opponent did something on turn 1 that caused them to lose life, you play a Bayou and cast Bond of Agony paying their life total.

Other notes:

The Sideboard Package is almost exclusively against control.

I call this Kamikaze because I go all in on one move and die if they can stop it.

I think you might be making a common mistake with Bond of Agony. You have to pay a mana for each damage in addition to the life. So if you want to make them lose 10 life, you have to pay 10 life AND 10 mana. Otherwise, it would be one of the most broken and powerful cards ever printed.

I really like the concept behind the deck, but it looks a lot like an old Legacy deck. I'll try to find a list, but it used Kavu Predator, False Cure, and a bunch of "opponent gains life" cards. You might want to check it out.

I see one glaring issue and that is bond of agony's mana requirement isn't being met...when you play it, you must also pay x..if you wish to make them lose 10, then the total cost is B+10 colorless+10 life.

You need to pay mana for Bond of Agony. None of the situations you described produce enough mana to pay for X.

You must really not play Vintage often if none of your opponents have ever pointed this out to you.

Otherwise, you play a Swamp and win if your opponent uses a fetchland.

I don't play vintage often, but when I do, this is what I play.

I would add Yawgmoth's Will, it pretty much make the cards in your deck twice as powerful. I would also probably add Mox Jet, Mox Sapphire, Mox Ruby, Lotus Petal, Mana Crypt, Necropotence, and Yawgmoth's Bargain into the mix. If you get Yawgmoth's Bargain into play then you can almost certainly get a first-turn win. In addition, you might as Well use Night's Whisper instead of Sign in Blood.

Otherwise, it would be one of the most broken and powerful cards ever printed.

It would be the best card ever printed. A single card channel-fireball? That would be sure as hell be banned.

A channel-fireball that costs B insted of 3G