I hadn't considered Dismember, I'll try that out for instant speed removal. I don't really see how Favor of the Mighty helps against Worship troll, since in my experience, Worship is the problem, as I can fly over the trolls with my wincons. While Detention Sphere can take care of Worship, I like to have a few more answers. Besides, Wrath is decent in a number of other matchups.
No Halos might be a mistake, and I might end up cutting the Enchantresses, which are somewhat slow, for those. That said, the enchantresses are great when they manage to live until your next turn. I haven't played against infect yet, so I don't have any experience in that matchup yet.
Edit: How does Enduring Ideal let Detention Sphere deal with hexproof? Sphere is an ETB trigger that targets a non-land permanent. Sure, you can target the Worship, but in that case, you might as well cast the sphere instead.
Path is somewhat of a nonbo with Prison and Sphere, but I feel it is a necessary evil. Enchantress is somewhat slow, but nice once you get going. Spreading Seas is great against a ton of decks, especially Eldrazi, same with Ghost Quarter. In the board I'm using Wrath over Verdict since there's good amount of people in my meta playing TrollWorship and I have yet to play against a blue deck I'd want wrath effects against.
I like the art a lot. It might be from a retail version of Duels of the Planeswalkers. I know the Frost Titan that came with the 2012 edition had a similar set icon, except colored mythic brownish.
Goblin chord? Theres a lot of ways to make multiple goblins efficiently and chord out the dweller. Simian Spirit Guide, maybe rituals? Dweller gets back rituals or maybe Atarka's Command? Just spitballing here. I don't think he's terrible at all because you're spending comparable mana when you snapcaster something like K command with a much bigger body. Have to figure what are the most devastating things to "Dwell on" so to speak.
Blood Moon is a very common and extremely powerful hatecard in modern, used in a lot of sideboards playing red. Ensnaring Bridge are centerpieces for decks like 8rack and Lantern Control, also in modern. I'm unsure if they see common play in other formats.
Ok, lets say WotC opted to remove the reserved list. (Yay Homelands reprints! I mean...)
Now obviously, the biggest thing to get into people's hands would be the Power Nine and the ABUR Duals. They COULD put them in a Reserved Masters set, but let's try something different.
From the Vault Sets. One would be the Power Nine, one would be the Duals. New borders, new art, foils. Large, but limited Print Run.
1.) What should the print run size be of each set to get the cards into people's hands, but not flood the market?
2.) What would such a printing do to the value of the originals?
3.) Would such a product actually help Vintage/Legacy's survivability?
4.) What should each pack cost MSRP? $100? $200?
5.) Slight Twist: This is a special "One time only" print run and after these sets are printed, they will NEVER be printed again (kinda a limited reprieve from the RL, rather than a straight abolishment). Does that change your answers to 1-4?
4.) About $20,000 or more. Authentic foil Power 9 are hard to come by. Shoot, I would say they are near impossible to come by. Putting that many sets on the market would start a stampede. Stores would likely need to higher armed security to prevent robbery.
Authentic foil Power 9 doesn't exist in paper. The first set to have foil cards in booster packs was Urza's Legacy.
Basically Reflector Mage, Goblin Dark Dwellers, crappy version of RU Prowess, and no Eldrazi so far.
First week and Rally decks still look the best versus a non-control field. That being said I think the UR deck can easily be reworked for a better list.
Very surprised no Mardu ...
I like using Elusive Spellfist instead of Jace in RU Prowess. It's better at blocking when playing defensive, and it's amazing for punching through when your opponent clogs up the ground.
It's looks fairly good, I think you'll have problems with various Dragons though, possibly along with Siege Rhino. The lack of boardwipes in the board seems slightly problematic also.
I could probably have won the match I lost, but I forgot about the trigger on my Tajuru Beastmaster two turns in a row, and as such didn't make what would have been profitable attacks those turns. I won a surprising amount of games by just stalling the board and draining my opponents to death with Essence Depleter and Zulaport Chainmage.
In 2hg, my friend and I went 4-0-1 with 28 teams, coming in at 2nd due to tiebreakers. I played a close to ideal BR devoid deck, with my friend on a solid U/W goodstuff deck. I don't remember the his exact list, but highlights include a Quarantine Field, Isolation Zone, Spell Shrivel, Void Shatter and Reflector Mage.
My decklist was as follows:
While it would still have been an extremely solid deck without Fall of the Titans, Fall took it WAY over the top. Several of our wins came from my partner triggering surge while holding up countermagic, allowing me to fireball our opponents for anywhere between 12-18 damage. The card is just absurd in 2hg. Our only draw came when our opponents made me discard both Fall and Barrage Tyrant and even then we were still close to winning when we went to time. This with my friend's Gravity Negator giving my Bane of Bala Ged flying.
I hadn't considered Dismember, I'll try that out for instant speed removal. I don't really see how Favor of the Mighty helps against Worship troll, since in my experience, Worship is the problem, as I can fly over the trolls with my wincons. While Detention Sphere can take care of Worship, I like to have a few more answers. Besides, Wrath is decent in a number of other matchups.
No Halos might be a mistake, and I might end up cutting the Enchantresses, which are somewhat slow, for those. That said, the enchantresses are great when they manage to live until your next turn. I haven't played against infect yet, so I don't have any experience in that matchup yet.
Edit: How does Enduring Ideal let Detention Sphere deal with hexproof? Sphere is an ETB trigger that targets a non-land permanent. Sure, you can target the Worship, but in that case, you might as well cast the sphere instead.
3x Mesa Enchantress
1x Heliod, God of the Sun
Instants(4):
4x Path to Exile
Enchantments(27):
4x Journey to Nowhere
4x Spreading Seas
3x Greater Auramancy
2x Luminarch Ascension
4x Ghostly Prison
4x Detention Sphere
4x Leyline of Sanctity
2x Sphere of Safety
5x Plains
2x Island
4x Flooded Strand
2x Hallowed Fountain
2x Glacial Fortress
4x Ghost Quarter
2x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
4x Celestial Colonnade
4x Nyx-Fleece Ram
2x Wrath of God
3x Stony Silence
3x Nevermore
2x Rest in Peace
1x Story Circle
Path is somewhat of a nonbo with Prison and Sphere, but I feel it is a necessary evil. Enchantress is somewhat slow, but nice once you get going. Spreading Seas is great against a ton of decks, especially Eldrazi, same with Ghost Quarter. In the board I'm using Wrath over Verdict since there's good amount of people in my meta playing Troll Worship and I have yet to play against a blue deck I'd want wrath effects against.
Edit:
Force of Axe
U
Instant
As an additional cost to cast Force of Axe, discard a card or pay 5.
Counter target spell.
I think a cycle based around the Lightning Axe template could actually be pretty cool, but I don't really have any ideas for WBG.
Clicky Clicky
1x Rot Shambler
1x Snapping Gnarlid
1x Essence Depleter
1x Vampire Envoy
1x Vile Redeemer
1x Netcaster Spider
1x Scion Summoner
1x Zulaport Chainmage
1x Saddleback Lagac
2x Seed Guardian
1x Kalastria Nightwatch
1x Tajuru Pathwarden
1x Tajuru Beastmaster
1x Baloth Null
1x Plated Crusher
1x Unnatural Endurance
1x Visions of Brutality
1x Complete Disregard
1x Hedron Archive
1x Mire's Malice
2x Oblivion Strike
Lands
9x Forest
7x Swamp
1x Crumbling Vestige
I could probably have won the match I lost, but I forgot about the trigger on my Tajuru Beastmaster two turns in a row, and as such didn't make what would have been profitable attacks those turns. I won a surprising amount of games by just stalling the board and draining my opponents to death with Essence Depleter and Zulaport Chainmage.
In 2hg, my friend and I went 4-0-1 with 28 teams, coming in at 2nd due to tiebreakers. I played a close to ideal BR devoid deck, with my friend on a solid U/W goodstuff deck. I don't remember the his exact list, but highlights include a Quarantine Field, Isolation Zone, Spell Shrivel, Void Shatter and Reflector Mage.
My decklist was as follows:
1x Kozilek's Sentinel
1x Slaughter Drone
1x Sky Scourer
1x Eldrazi Mimic
1x Flayer Drone
1x Nettle Drone
1x Matter Reshaper
1x Dominator Drone
1x Thought-Knot Seer
1x Maw of Kozilek
1x Havoc Sower
1x Akoum Firebird
1x Barrage Tyrant
1x Walker of the Wastes
1x Bane of Bala Ged
1x Outnumber
1x Reality Hemorrhage
1x Complete Disregard
1x Touch of the Void
1x Devour in Flames
1x Seer's Lantern
1x Swarm Surge
1x Press into Service
1x Fall of the Titans
6x Swamp
8x Mountain
2x Wastes
1x Cinder Barrens
While it would still have been an extremely solid deck without Fall of the Titans, Fall took it WAY over the top. Several of our wins came from my partner triggering surge while holding up countermagic, allowing me to fireball our opponents for anywhere between 12-18 damage. The card is just absurd in 2hg. Our only draw came when our opponents made me discard both Fall and Barrage Tyrant and even then we were still close to winning when we went to time. This with my friend's Gravity Negator giving my Bane of Bala Ged flying.