Vintage 101: The Horror! The Horror!
Howdy folks! It's time yet again for another edition of Vintage 101! I'm your host, Joe Dyer, and this week we're finishing up our look at Duskmourn for Vintage! In addition to that, we've got a look at some of the data from 4Seasons Bologna and some Challenges from the past week.
Without further ado, let's dive right in!
Spooky Scary Set Review
We're finishing up our set review for Duskmourn: House of Horror this week! There wasn't much left to cover here, so let's see what else this set has in store for us!
Ancient Cellarspawn
This card is probably not good, but I love the concept of it, especially when you consider Bolas's Citadel is a card. I definitely want to put this into play and Citadel someone. Seems fun (but not competitive).
Experimental Lab // Staff Room
Lands decks don't usually show up too much in Vintage, but having a Crucible enchantment in green that's also a Yawgmoth's Will for a turn seems kind of fun. Would be curious where this could go.
Giggling Skitterspike
An indestructible threat that can easily become a 6/6, works well with Steel Overseer and deals a bunch of damage to an opponent? Seems like it would be super fun to try out somewhere.
Unwanted Remake
This remake may not be great, but it's an intriguing effect for one mana. In Vintage the manifest feels like so much less of a downside that one mana destroy a creature is not unreasonable.
4Seasons Bologna
Very recently in Bologna, Italy was the 4Seasons Summer event, which had multiple differening events from various formats. Of those events was the Main Vintage event, which had approximately 64 players in it. These events are generally very interesting. You can find the main 4Seasons Tournaments page on Facebook over here.
Let's take a look at the Top 8 for this event. You can find the decklists for these over here.
| Deck Name | Placing | MTGO Username |
|---|---|---|
| Breach | 1st | Luca Bastianelli |
| Initiative | 2nd | Lukasz Matusiak |
| Oath | 3rd | Phil Richman |
| 4C Lurrus | 4th | Joe Brennan |
| Dimir Lurrus | 5th | Damiano Buttarelli |
| Dimir Lurrus | 6th | Raffaele Ramagli |
| Esper Lurrus | 7th | Enrico Vair |
| Jewel Shops | 8th | Nicolas Wallian |
Quite a bit of Lurrus here, with 4/8 of the Top 8 taken up by the deck. I hope to maybe see some more data out of these events in the future.
Vintage Challenge 32 9/12
The first Challenge event of the week was the Thursday event. This event had 56 players in it according to the data collected by the Vintage Streamer's Discord.
You can find the Top 32 decklists for this event here and the data sheet here.
Dimir Lurrus was the most popular deck of the event and it had a pretty reasonable win rate. Jewel and Initiative were both popular but their win rates weren't great. Dredge did very well as did Breach.
Let's take a look at the Top 8.
| Deck Name | Placing | MTGO Username |
|---|---|---|
| Dimir Lurrus Control | 1st | unluckymonkey |
| Dimir Lurrus Control | 2nd | Montolio |
| Breach | 3rd | TrueHero |
| Dredge | 4th | Lord_Beerus |
| Dimir Lurrus Control | 5th | duke12 |
| Dimir Lurrus Control | 6th | _Batutinha_ |
| Initiative | 7th | Lollopollo2001 |
| Breach | 8th | thedeck84 |
Quite a bit of Dimir Lurrus in the Top 8 here. In fact the end of the event was two Dimir Lurrus decks. Let's take a look at the winner.
Very interesting build here. Dauthi Voidwalker looks quite good here, given that it fights opposing Lurrus' very well. Also, Feed the Swarm is super neat.
In Second Place we had another Dimir Lurrus deck.
Fairly stock looking variant of this deck. Bowmasters and Frog is really good for sure.
Also in this Top 8 we had Breach.
Kind of cool to see Breach bounce up and around. Haven't quite seen it for a while. Also, Dack Fayden? Be still my beating heart!
Vintage Challenge 32 9/13
The second Challenge event of the week was the Friday event. This event had 45 players in it according to the data collected by the Vintage Streamer's Discord.
You can find the Top 32 decklists for this event here and the data sheet here.
Dimir Lurrus was the most popular, but it's win rate wasn't fantastic despite some solid finishes. Dredge looked really good here, as did Doomsday.
Let's take a look at the Top 8.
| Deck Name | Placing | MTGO Username |
|---|---|---|
| Azorius Control | 1st | BiggestBird |
| Dredge | 2nd | laughingrock |
| Dredge | 3rd | Danielpena397 |
| Doomsday | 4th | Tsubasa_Cat |
| Doomsday | 5th | discoverN |
| Dimir Lurrus Control | 6th | unluckymonkey |
| Esper Lurrus Control | 7th | albertoSD |
| Dimir Lurrus Control | 8th | JOANANTON |
Big spread of Dredge/Doomsday/Lurrus. At the end of the event it was Azorius Control that won.
Sort of like Initiative Tinker without the Tinker. Pretty cool list honestly.
In Second Place we had Dredge.
The Dredge lists keep fluctuating back and forth on what they're doing. I think it makes sense because it keeps people guessing what the deck is wanting to accomplish.
Further down the Top 8 we had Doomsday.
The Frog/Voidwalker combo here looks super neat. I like the more Tempo-esque strategy to push the opponent off their initial gameplan of trying to prevent Doomsday.
Vintage Challenge 32 9/14
The third Challenge event of the week was the Saturday event. This event had 55 players in it according to the data collected by the Vintage Streamer's Discord.
You can find the Top 32 decklists for this event here and the data sheet here.
Dredge was super popular here and it's win rate was very good. Dimir Lurrus Control seemed to do quite poorly. Oath looked good as did Jewel, and so did Sphere Shops.
Let's take a look at the Top 8.
| Deck Name | Placing | MTGO Username |
|---|---|---|
| Sphere Shops | 1st | Montolio |
| BUG | 2nd | musasabi |
| Jewel Shops | 3rd | Jumba |
| Dredge | 4th | Dogeminer02 |
| Dredge | 5th | LucasG1ggs |
| 4C Lurrus | 6th | ziofrancone |
| CounterVine | 7th | UrpurEmanure |
| Dredge | 8th | Lord_Beerus |
Quite a bit of Dredge here. At the end of the event it was Sphere Shops that won.
Old school Ravager Shops! Gotta love it. I am digging this. Also, Null Elemental Blast in the sideboard is super neat.
In Second Place we had BUG.
Frog and Bowmasters continues to look really good in all of the lists I see them in. They're a very powerful combination of cards.
At the bottom of the Top 8 we had a 4C Lurrus pile.
Ajani, Nacatl Pariah seems like such a sweet sweet card. I am loving it.
Vintage Challenge 32 9/15
The final Challenge event of the week was the Sunday event. This event had 45 players in it according to the data collected by the Vintage Streamer's Discord.
You can find the Top 32 decklists for this event here and the data sheet here.
Dimir Lurrus was the most popular deck and it's win rate was very good. Jewel Shops also looked great here, as did Tinker variants.
Let's take a look at the Top 8.
| Deck Name | Placing | MTGO Username |
|---|---|---|
| Jewel Shops | 1st | yPrincipe |
| Dimir Lurrus Control | 2nd | Bezerra_da_Silva |
| Dredge | 3rd | Zenith777 |
| Dimir Lurrus Control | 4th | Junkmener |
| Dimir Lurrus Control | 5th | Ark4n |
| BUG | 6th | RyanWu |
| Esper Tinker | 7th | Cioffo86 |
| Lurrus DRS | 8th | unluckymonkey |
Fair amount of Dimir Lurrus here, but at the end of the event it was Jewel Shops that won.
Quite a solid looking list. It's so interesting how this deck quickly spun and evolved without 4x Saga. It might have made this deck even better.
In Second Place we had Dimir Lurrus.
I think if this deck is going to be the most popular fair deck of the format going forward, Dauthi Voidwalker definitely does seem like a great card to combat it. It snags so much away from the other Lururs players.
Speaking of Lurrus, at the bottom of the Top 8 we had Lurrus DRS.
Voidwalker and Frog seem like insanely good cards for sure, and I also like the one of surveil land in the manabase. Those cards are quite powerful.
Around the Web
- Revenantkioku has a video on Doomsday vs Eldrazi Top. Check it out here.
- Montolio has a video on Dimir Lurrus. Check it out here.
The Spice Corner
Cats.
Wrapping Up
That's all the time we have this week folks! Thanks for your continued support of the column and join me next week as we continue our journey into Vintage!
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Until next time!
