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Did you forget about this? Because I did! I remembered it again just now...

Next turn... -The Power Phase is 5. -Jekaena continues to struggle in vain against the webbing. -Tomas casts Life Force on Dorgath. -Dorgath clobbers the last gigantic spider as soon as Throg's ice prison on it wears off. -Kelgar blesses Tomas (21/21) and Carrow (12/17) with Power of Sigmar...

Well, I'll scry twice and I have to wait until I get back home to see what's on top, but that doesn't affect the board. Nothing further from me. Hoplite gets a +1/+1 counter, Marauder dies, Militant dies, Shred-Freak dies, and you get two tapped 2/2 zombie tokens?

Gods Willing on Battlewise Hoplite

Block Marauder with Hoplite, block Shred-Freak with Militant.

When it comes to cards that have been banned or restricted from environments where they were once used extensively, and the game has changed so much since then, I often find the hypotheticals, the prospects for these cards to be what I'd call "interesting." We never really know what might have...

That about wraps it up for Necropotence in Vintage. The format continues to evolve, but most of that doesn't involve Necropotence. The types of decks that run Necropotence don't really command a sufficient share of the metagame to influence the shifts that Vintage has been experiencing. The...

-Attack Spidey with Vampire Nighthawk and Horror token (mandated to attack him). -Attack TomB with Horror token (mandated to attack him). -Attack Gideon Jura with Archfiend of Depravity and Horror token.

Oh well. Baleful Strix, Highland Lake. Move to Declare Attackers?

Nope. Skyknight dies.

None of those are lands!

I've got mixed feelings about the changes. Personally, I am not a fan of planeswalkers as commanders. But I also understand that once Dominaria leaves Standard there won't be such a rich array of legendary creatures for the format. And if planeswalkers as commanders is going to be an important...

Plains, Dryad Militant, done. Spidey: 12 Hand: 2 Library: 49 Battlefield: (T,T,T,U,U) Swamp x5 (T) Rakdos Shred-Freak (Human Berserker; 2/1; Haste) (T) Xathrid Necromancer (Human Wizard; 2/2; Whenever ~ or another Human creature I control dies, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto...

-Carrow quaffs a healing potion (10/17 Wounds). One of the spiders thaws out and Throg immediately begins eating it. He finds that it tastes mostly like any other raw spider he's ever eaten. It maybe has a bit more of a gamey taste to it and the texture is smoother than he expected.

UUD...

UUD, Lyev Skyknight detaining Rakdos Shred-Freak, attack with my other Lyev Skyknight. Responses?

Dark Petition also made Necropotence stronger once it was on the battlefield, because it gave the deck an unrestricted tool similar to Demonic Tutor, which could then be used to fetch Yawgmoth's Will. This made a 7-card hand with lethal spell-chaining for Tendrils more easily achievable. Play an...

Although other components of Storm decks have varied, the role of Necropotence remained generally the same. But it did see one big change with the advent of Dark Petition... Players quickly found that Dark Petition was better for fetching Yawgmoth's Will than other cards used for the job in...

While one-off Necropotence has been a consistent staple in Vintage Storm decks, its role in deck construction over the years has been a bit murky. I think some builds just threw it in as a play to set up a potential third-turn kill if nothing else better was available, while other builds leaned...

For the uninitiated, and I gather that most players don't have much experience with Vintage Storm decks, the application of Necropotence in Vintage combo decks is different from its historical use in most of the decks I've talked about here. While there's no exact rule, old Necro decks tended to...