Ive never played Vintage, but have playsets of Metalworker and Lodestone Golem Ive been wanting to use and came up with this. Pretty much a White Staxless Stax. Ive been browsing through deck checks and was wondering why enlightened tutor isnt used, is there a reason Im missing? Its not on the banned/restricted list. Other than that the goal is early disruption and quick beats. Anyone whos played the format, are there any obvious issues with the deck? Always appreciate any imput.
well the first problem i see is you are probably almost never going to be able to cast all is dust, since it's not an artifact you'll either have won the game through lockdown or be dead long before you can cast it through your own sphere effects (you can't use workshops to cast it btw they can only be used to cast artifacts)
also, no balance in a white prison deck makes me a sad panda
I dunno why enlightened tutor isn't used more, I have a parfait deck build that could run 4 of them and doesn't, it seems to be an easy card to cut even in decks that seem to want 4 copies of it. i guess drawing multiples of them is just painful in a deck that has limited card draw capabilities
defense grid is more of a sideboard card it could end up being a dead draw against several match-ups but it is definately an mvp against people trying to hurkyl's you eot. i dunno if i maindeck it
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Wasteland
4 Plain
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mana Crypt
5 Mox
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
3 Solemn Simulcrum
4 Lodestone Golem
3 Metalworker
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Triskelion
2 Sword Of Fire and Ice
4 Enlightened Tutor
3 All is Dust
3 Thorn Of Amethyst
4 Sphere Of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
1 Defense Grid
1 Trinisphere
also, no balance in a white prison deck makes me a sad panda
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I dunno why enlightened tutor isn't used more, I have a parfait deck build that could run 4 of them and doesn't, it seems to be an easy card to cut even in decks that seem to want 4 copies of it. i guess drawing multiples of them is just painful in a deck that has limited card draw capabilities
defense grid is more of a sideboard card it could end up being a dead draw against several match-ups but it is definately an mvp against people trying to hurkyl's you eot. i dunno if i maindeck it
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