Glad you agree.

If you look on mtggoldfish I’ve been going 4-0 and 3-1 ever since Vintage constructed was released online, the deck has been having great success, even though on the surface people think it’s a joke ( i mean, i play exava and huntmaster haha ). But alas, after the matches they see the deck is a real threat that can hit them from many angles. The idea with sage might be a different take on the deck, indeed with a shaman theme as you noticed. As prophetic flamespeaker, drs, gorilla, and soon reclamation are all shamans. I think there could indeed be something there, but it will require more testing of course!

There is no strictly better then. If you are at 2, and you are mindslavered and your opponent hits you with your own lightning bolt oops.

Because a strict upgrade is better on at least 1 stat and equal on every other stat. Having less toughness makes it impossible for the card to be strictly beter. Whether it can destroy the Plague really does not matter at all. I’m happy to agree it’s better, just not strictly.

Sure, doesn’t make it strictly better though ;).

Definitely interesting…I do love how so many of us (and 100% honesty…I used to be included) thought Vintage was a “solved” format and that the # of archetypes was really limited…then you go 3-1 with a decklist like that, definitely made my day. Though I feel like I must ask, what are you cutting for the reclamation sage and do you name Shaman with the second Cavern (to play DRS, Rec. Sage, and Gorilla Shaman)?

http://www.quietspeculation.com/forum/index.php/topic,7411.msg97474.html#new

I have a thread on the forums about 5color humans, a deck I’ve been tweaking for a while now and been having good success. It will be going in a shell like this for testing at first.

I take it you play some form of aggro weenie deck (similar if not Fish)? The only thing I find confusing (and to be honest I’m not that well versed in the vintage metagame), I would think your primary use for him is in destroying artifacts (as with the exception of Oath decks I am not aware of a lot of enchantment based ones), if that’s the case you already had viridian shaman. But definitely let me know what deck you’re putting him in (as you’ve peeked my interest)

Fair enough..in the strictest definition of “strict” you are correct…however, in your same point casting Sage can destroy that Engineered Plague….casting Shaman means you’ve got them on a 20 turn clock…

Dangit….I definitely should have included that one…as they can finally get rid of “Eye of Nowhere” for Void Snare.

If only 1 or 2 Slivers are on the board the token will not actually have a lot of abilities. Similarly for the Leeching Sliver there may not be quite a few creatures out there.

On Kingsday (used to be called Queensday when we still had a queen) people sell all their old stuff in the streets. I’m always on the lookout for Magic cards then. Unfortunately there isn’t usually a lot to be found, but I don’t let that discourage me. I haven’t visited a lot of flee markets but when I do I will look for Magic, though I’ve never found anything there.