I am a legacy player currently. I exclusively play storm, mostly playing TES, a little ANT, and casual read up on doomsday. I saw there are some vintage events at GP SeaTac and I would be thrilled to play. I know power obviously helps but I probably won't be able to buy/borrow any so I was wondering if there are any storm lists that don't rely on them as heavily. My first thought was lab maniac doomsday.
Thanks!
If it's helpful here is what I currently have:
LED's
Infernal Tutors
Burning Wishs
Doomsday
Dark Petitions
Tops
Underground Seas
Volcanic Islands
Tundra
Bayou
Tropical Island
Scrubland
Deltas
Mires
Strands
Mistys
Silences
Duress
Cabal Therapy
Petals
Chrome Mox
Of all of the archetypes in Vintage, Storm is one of the ones most reliant on a full set of power. Stax wants all 5 Moxen and Lotus, and most Control/Tempo lists want a few Moxen and Recall/Walk, but Storm really wants the whole package. Remember that, compared to Legacy, Lotus Petal, Chrome Mox, and Lion's Eye Diamond are all restricted, so without being able to add Moxen/Lotus to replace them, your rituals count takes a big hit. Also, Brainstorm and Ponder are both restricted, so without Ancestral Recall and Time Walk bolstering your cantrips, you don't have nearly the cantrip density and power of Legacy.
I know it's budget and doesn't have to be rigoriously optimized, but I just wanted to bounce this list to see if there is anything glaring. I decided to splash white for chants since I'm not since if I will have forces by that point. I thought playing extra copies of serenity is nice since I won't be running any moxen. I don't think basic plains should really be in the mainboard, but I probably want it in my 75 right?
The joy of running a Powered Storm list is that you can maindeck a Hurkyll's Recall, as it works as both a Stax hate card and as a way to boost your own Storm Count/Mana when you get multiple Moxen out.
As far as your list goes, I'm not fond of the Silence effects. You'd likely be better served by Duress and Cabal Therapy, and maybe some more Gitaxian Probe to fuel the latter. Dig Through Time should likely also be at least a 2-of, as it's *really* good.
I'm not sure about 4-of Mental Misstep mainboard. It doesn't do anything against Stax decks (it only hits Sol Ring and occasionally Voltaic Key), it can't hit most countermagic (Daze and Force of Will are bigger than it can hit, and Fluster makes multiple copies), and there's relatively few decks that run discard effects of their own. You can bring it in against UR Delver and decks with discard, but mostly I feel you don't want more than 2 or so copies to hit their Missteps or occasional Recall.
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Doomsday uses the fewest restricted cads of any storm list, and is very controlling until it is ready to win. Of you don't have the sapphire, lotus, ancestral, walk, then you might as well play landstill or delver.
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I am a legacy player currently. I exclusively play storm, mostly playing TES, a little ANT, and casual read up on doomsday. I saw there are some vintage events at GP SeaTac and I would be thrilled to play. I know power obviously helps but I probably won't be able to buy/borrow any so I was wondering if there are any storm lists that don't rely on them as heavily. My first thought was lab maniac doomsday.
Thanks!
If it's helpful here is what I currently have:
LED's
Infernal Tutors
Burning Wishs
Doomsday
Dark Petitions
Tops
Underground Seas
Volcanic Islands
Tundra
Bayou
Tropical Island
Scrubland
Deltas
Mires
Strands
Mistys
Silences
Duress
Cabal Therapy
Petals
Chrome Mox
That said, Gush and Fastbond are both cheap, and can add a fair bit of power to a Vintage Storm list. You can also replace Ad Nauseam with Yawgmoth's Bargain, which allows you to run more expensive spells like Gush, Force of Will, Dark Petition, and Dig through Time, and Yawgmoth's Bargain over Past in Flames means you don't need to worry about Red mana. Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor are strong as well if you have them.
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1 Ponder
1 Gitaxian Probe
4 Preordain
4 Gush
1 Fastbond
4 Dark Ritual
4 Cabal Ritual
1 Sol Ring
1 Lotus Petal
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
2 Tendrils of Agony
4 Dark Petition
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Silence
2 Orim's Chant
2 Flusterstorm
4 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
2 Underground Sea
1 Tundra
1 Tropical Island
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Plains
4 Serenity
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Things
Null Rod is not the most helpful because it doesn't stop the things that give you the most grief - Chalice of the Void, Trinisphere, Thorn of Amethyst, Sphere of Resistance, Lodestone Golem, etc.
The joy of running a Powered Storm list is that you can maindeck a Hurkyll's Recall, as it works as both a Stax hate card and as a way to boost your own Storm Count/Mana when you get multiple Moxen out.
As far as your list goes, I'm not fond of the Silence effects. You'd likely be better served by Duress and Cabal Therapy, and maybe some more Gitaxian Probe to fuel the latter. Dig Through Time should likely also be at least a 2-of, as it's *really* good.
I'm not sure about 4-of Mental Misstep mainboard. It doesn't do anything against Stax decks (it only hits Sol Ring and occasionally Voltaic Key), it can't hit most countermagic (Daze and Force of Will are bigger than it can hit, and Fluster makes multiple copies), and there's relatively few decks that run discard effects of their own. You can bring it in against UR Delver and decks with discard, but mostly I feel you don't want more than 2 or so copies to hit their Missteps or occasional Recall.
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