2013 Vintage Championship Deck

[Spiderman]

For you Oversoul (and Nova, if he's still checking in)

2013 Vintage Championship Deck: Merfolk!

 

[Oversoul]

Vintage has long been thought of as a format with turn-one kills, little interaction, and a complete lack of creatures (except for whatever you wanted to Tinker or Oath of Druids into play). Hopefully, Joel Lim's victory at this year's Vintage Championship will do something to quash those rumors.

Not sure where this comes from, since it's seriously never been the case in Vintage. Well, the "format with turn-one kills" is technically true, but it's also been technically true for lots of formats. It's been possible to get first turn kills in Standard sometimes in the past, but it's rare enough that people usually don't worry about it too much, which is the same situation Vintage has been in for, well, a really long time. I think first turn kills were still reasonably rare even back when Lion's Eye Diamond was unrestricted.

Anyway, it's very cool to see merfolk definitively taking back the deck name "Fish" from generic disruptive aggro decks. There's nothing fishy about a Deathrite Shaman.