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I guess Mikeymike has a valid point there. Visions didn't have any particularly scary cards (Vampiric Tutor aside). But as far as overall power goes, the whole block was mediocre, and Visions was on par with it. Stronghold had some very good cards, but was mostly unimpressive (in comparison to...

HOUTS, if you think that Affinity has dominated Vintage or Legacy, you don't know either format. It hasn't even been particularly good...

Not knowing what the configuration of the Korean keyboard is (I sure hope that it's not as convoluted as our own QWERTY keyboards), I'm not sure how impressive that is. But just from the number, it sure looks impressive...

Worlds and the ones leading up to it? I would like a larger sample group, personally... I have a couple points to make about your other statement, but I want to separate them from each other (simply because they are not related). -Black Vise doesn't really have the potential to punish "any"...

Exactly. There haven't been any--ever. So why are you bringing it up?

I think that the Dark Ritual aspect is quite important here. Things like Phyrexian Scuta, and even Grinning Demon, look like they could be just as good as Juzam Djinn, yet turn out not to see much use. The best one case has been Phyrexian Negator (the only one of these cards that has made an...

I see it as... Dominance: when a card is so good that it is either unbeatable or too impractical to beat. It can be like Skullclamp in Standard or Goblin Welder in Vintage (both had periods in which ridiculous amounts of them appeared in top 8's) or like Tolarian Academy (a single archetype of...

Dilatency

I never really did anything to prepare for it in previous years. Spring is something you have to prepare for?

I don't have extensive lists of tournaments where it failed to dominate or anything like that (I would suppose that such materials would be easiest to obtain on SCG, except now they have the whole "premium" thing going on, although it would be entirely possible to find extensive results...

I know that it looks small compared to the massive bannings imposed on Standard, but one other change in this last announcement was the restriction of Trinisphere in Vintage (oh, and they also made all four Portal sets legal and banned/retstricted some tutors in Legacy/Vintage). I am not sure...

Well, I did forget about the tutors... Personal Tutor (a sorcery version of Mystical Tutor) and Imperial Seal from Portal: 3 Kingdoms (a sorcery version of Vampiric Tutor) are both restricted in Vintage. Imperial Seal is also banned in Legacy. Personally, I think this might be a bit...

Unless you count Blacker Lotus... Oh, and it looks like they hit Standard pretty hard... http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dci/announce/dci20050301a Also, Trinisphere is restricted. Will that kill Stax?

Yukora is pretty nice (not as good as the ancient Djinn, but only black's finest creatures can match him for efficiency). The non-Ogre part seems entirely pointless though. It's one mana more expensive than Phyrexian Negator and doesn't trample, but its drawback only matters if you control other...

In Korean or English?

I think they finally legalized them because people were asking them to. That might sound like common sense, but I don't believe that those cards will impact the format. Some of them are decent but none of them that were not already reprinted look like Vintage bombs. Legacy is slower and might be...

A better artifact than Black Lotus would be a scary thing...

You seem to be using a lot of creature kill. I know you said aggro and aggro-control, but do you really hate creatures that much? Also, I am not sure about Bane of the Living (I've never played with or against it, but it just doesn't look very good)... You are using a single Demonic Tutor...

If you use Endless Wurm, be sure to Rancor it whenever possible. Then it reads a lot like... Endless Wurm (with Rancor) 3GG Creature -- Wurm or something else Oversoul is too lazy to look up Trample During your main phase pay G. 11/9 That is a considerably good deal.

I put together such a deck for fun on Apprentice. I didn't throw in any P9 or the like. I think I included too many lands (I had all of the good artifact mana I could come up with, not to mention Elvish Spirit Guide, Dark Ritual, Blood Pet, and Seething Song) although that worked out perfectly...