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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.

ZOMG EXPOSITION CUTSCENE You make your way through a long granite tunnel. The light from the lantern fills the space around you, trailing off into darkness ahead and darkness behind. Throg seems to absentmindedly pull ahead, his daemonic gait naturally putting distance between himself and the...

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When Modern was first created, its card pool was a bit bigger than the Extended card pool had ever been. But WotC had already modified Extended to be smaller, and Modern has only grown from that point forward. So, in a sense, Modern isn't very much like Extended was and will probably only...

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Death Long As mentioned, I dislike the naming trend of Storm decks being anything "Long." But a few of these really never seemed to have been called anything else. With Burning Wish restricted, some Storm players turned to Death Wish as an alternative. Burning Wish offered a bit of a toolbox...

Block the Paladin with the Geist.

Yes: stop doing that.

Nope.

UUD, Fog Bank, done. Spidey: 10 Hand: 2 Library: 45 Battlefield: (U,U,U) Mt x3 (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...

Bysshan catches the head. The icons of Nurgle that Throg was carrying crumble to dust and Nurgle curses him. Also, Tzeentch blesses him. Throg's body is surrounded by a vortex of Chaos energy. He emerges momentarily, changed. Throg gains the following Chaos attributes... Atrophy: The Chaos...

Drain Tendrils While Tendrils of Agony was mostly associated with the Dark Ritual "pillar" in Vintage, it was also employed as a kill condition in, slower, more controlling decks with Mana Drain. My cursory searches show that such decks were appearing in top 8 spots from 2007 to 2014. Although...

This could be hilarious in team-based formats.

The Tropical Storm In 2007, Gifts Ungiven was restricted and Gush was unrestricted. This led to the development of "The Tropical Storm." Properly applied, Gush could both draw cards and generate mana. With Dark Ritual, Fastbond, and 0-drop artifact mana, this was enough of a burst to threaten...

There's probably some form of counterplay in this game where you could abstain from reserving a tile in order to bait an opponent into exploring it when you want a better chance for that opponent to be tapped out or something. Seems like that could be a thing, but it also seems like that level...