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Deck Name: The Pitch Magic Format: Legacy (allegedly made tournament appearances circa 2012, but has never been a true competitive archetype) Insight: A completely manaless deck that aims to win by casting spells that do not require mana, exiling other cards from the hand to pay for them...

Nothing from me. So Geist #1 dies, Soldier token dies, Champion dies, Thragtusk dies, I get a Beast token, and you take 6?

Ad Nauseam Alara Block didn't do much to affect Tendrils deck except for the advent of one card, and it sure was a big one. A really, really big one. Ad Nauseam was kind of like a new take on Necrologia, but actually good. I've written about the card before. See here and here. Ad Nauseam has...

No responses from me on that. Proceeding to combat damage?

None.

UUD, attack with everything. Blocks/responses?

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Mere months after Mirage introduced Infernal Contract, WotC released Portal (my first set!), which contained a functional reprint of the card: Cruel Bargain. That's quite the oddity. They had no problem with reprinting cards in the set, including such...

Tendrils of Agony in Legacy, 2004–2008 Tendrils of Agony in competitive Legacy has been defined by the full legal usage of Lion's Eye Diamond. I don't want to merely rehash the LED Memories thread, which covered much of this. And really, having followed Legacy since the format's inception and...

Meandeck Tendrils With TPS filling the role of a flexible, robust combo deck that was still fast, most other combo decks focused on maximizing cheesy, more consistently fast wins. Dedicating card slots to protecting itself meant that first-turn kills were rare and even second-turn kills were...

Take it.

Thragtusk, done. Spidey: 16 Hand: 2 Library: 48 Battlefield: (U,U) Mt x2 (T,U) Plains x2 (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) Truefire Paladin (2/2...

Soldier token dies?

Nope.

UUD, attack with the 6/5 Strangleroot Geist. Blocks/responses?

The Power Phase is 3, which might be relevant to the healers in the party. Huh, that's mostly just Melkor. There's also Rokapoke, but I'm currently pretending to be Rokapoke in this thread until Rokapoke returns triumphantly. Also, Jekaena will try to heal anyone who asks for it.

As I noted in the Memories thread for Dark Ritual, the card used to be associated most strongly with aggro decks, although it also appeared in control and combo decks. Vintage TPS was probably the deck that really started to turn that around, as Dark Ritual disappeared from most competitive...

We may not know the exact identities of the people responsible for this, how many of them there are, and their exact methods, but it seems clear that the broken market for Modern tournament cards exists for profit, not as an accident or a mistake. I am convinced that the same forces are behind...

Take it.

A few times, I talked about "pillars." This is a vague term that has shifted in meaning over the years. I should probably have spelled it out in the Dark Ritual memories thread. Originally, the term applied to Vintage and came about largely due to the rise of TPS. Well, it'd also be fair to say...

Nope.