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I don't think that I have a lot of old casual Tendrils decklists saved, but while reminiscing on these things, I remembered that I'd archived Nick's old Enchantress Bloom deck here at the CPA. This is the list... 4x Enchantress's Presence 4x Argothian Enchantress 2x Demonic Tutor 1x Helix...

You make your way to the temple, where some bewildered guards greet Revaethan... "You're a welcome face in this time of crisis, Wardancer. Friends of yours are friends of ours. Uh, do you have any better idea than we do of what's going on?"

Yeah, I don't have enough blockers to stop all of those guys and pumping them with Sunhome Guildmage kills me no matter what. Good game. I see that for the last set to get two Event Decks, they went with "the good one" and "the bad one." On the upside, the rumors I heard about Rally and Rout...

UUD, Farseek grabbing Forest, done. Spidey: 10 Hand: 1 Library: 43 Battlefield: (T,U,U) Mt x3 (T,U,U,U) Plains x4 (U) Boros Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add R or W to my mana pool) (U) Clifftop Retreat (~ ETB tapped unless I control a Mt or Plains.; T: Add R or W to my mana pool) (U)...

By the time you make it down the mountain to the temple, the dwarven army is setting up camp. Revaethan eyes the temple and the dwarves... "Well, we're here. Which should we do first? Check on the temple or find out what these dwarves are up to?"

I Call That a Bargain I'll wrap up this summary of Tendrils of Agony in Vintage with the latest major development for the card, and one that's especially meaningful for me personally. In August of 2017, Yawgmoth's Bargain was unrestricted. Earlier that same month, I'd started one of these...

It's a Paradox! Tendrils of Agony is one of those cards that's mediocre within a relatively limited environment, but keeps getting better the more cheap card-drawing and mana acceleration you throw at it. That's why it was nonexistent in competitive Standard and took a while to find a niche in...

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The Rise and Fall of DPS By mid-2015, Gush Tendrils, powered by Dig Through Time, was the strongest performing Storm deck. Good old TPS was still kicking around, but it was an uphill battle against Mental Misstep. Two things changed that opened up more space for Tendrils of Agony. The second was...

The only thing I'm seeing in the rules for when the scout marker can be used is still this...

Block Paladin with Ranger.

UUD, Borderland Ranger searching for Island, play Island, done. :( Spidey: 10 Hand: 1 Library: 44 Battlefield: (T,T,T) Mt x3 (T,T,T) Plains x3 (U) Boros Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add R or W to my mana pool) (U) Clifftop Retreat (~ ETB tapped unless I control a Mt or Plains.; T: Add R or W...

UUD, Island, River Sneak. It gains haste ueot and a +1/+1 counter. Attack Melkor, done. Melkor: 18 Command Zone: Cannons to Port (The next time you deal combat damage to the player on your left, draw a card.) Hand: 7 Library: 52 Battlefield: (T) Swamp x1 (T) Plains x1 (S) Duskbourne...

Magic 2014: Beginning of the End Burning Tendrils was doing pretty well and was quickly becoming the Storm deck of choice for Vintage. But it went downhill from there, and not for a single, simple, clear-cut reason. The trigger for the decline of a card that had spent nearly a decade as a...

The Return of Burning Wish The synergy between Oath of Druids and Forbidden Orchard has had a presence in Vintage ever since Forbidden Orchard was varied. The exact creature or creatures used with this combo have varied wildly over the years, and I'll make no attempt to cover them all here. I...

Ritual? Who needs it? Traditional TPS decks fueled by Dark Ritual continued to appear in Vintage, but increasingly, the card associated with Tendrils of Agony in Vintage was not Dark Ritual or even Mana Drain from the Drain Tendrils decks, but Gush. For a while, the three coexisted, but Gush was...

Gush Tendrils In September of 2010, Gush was unrestricted again. The blue/black/green decks with both Dark Ritual and Gush, known as TTS, didn't make a comeback. But Gush did return to the format in a big way. There were Gush aggro decks, Gush control decks, and a Gush combo archetype using...

Jekaena: Dorgath, do you recognize them? Revaethan: Jekaena, dwarves don't all know each other! Jekaena: They don't? Oh. I wonder what they're doing here. Revaethan: Shall we go find out?

Yes.