Just getting into Vintage one of my friends that plays Legacy and EDH got my hooked on the format
over the course of the pre-release weekend. I have most of the cards for the deck already would just
need to pick up another Timetwister the one I am currently using is in my Nukusar, the mindrazer EDH deck
and I hate swapping cards between decks. So I was wondering if this was both a good place to start and if the deck is well or poorly positioned.
1 Grindstone doesn't seem like enough, unless you're running Trinket Mage to fetch with Recruiter to fetch it.
I'd also consider some to lots of Pyroblast/Red Elemental Blast in your 75. Everyone plays blue in Vintage so they're never dead, and with Painter out on blue you can use them as a one mana Counterspell/Vindicate split card.
Places I'd look at cutting:
Lands - with 9 mana-producing artifacts, your deck is 31 mana sources and 29 actual cards. You can definitely trim down from 22. 18 is probably sufficient, if not a little less.
Timetwister - This card isn't actually all that insane outside of storm decks Mana Drain - You don't have much in the way of outlets for your mana with this. It would probably be better as some other countermagic, like Mental Misstep, Flustersorm, Daze
over the course of the pre-release weekend. I have most of the cards for the deck already would just
need to pick up another Timetwister the one I am currently using is in my Nukusar, the mindrazer EDH deck
and I hate swapping cards between decks. So I was wondering if this was both a good place to start and if the deck is well or poorly positioned.
Lands 22
4 Underground Sea
4 Badlands
4 Volcanic Island
4 Polluted Delta
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
Spells 14
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
Artifacts 11
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Grindstone
1 Sensei's Divining Top
Creatures 13
4 Snapcaster Mage
1 Painter's Servant
4 Imperial Recruiter
4 Dark Confidant
Sideboard
4 Leyline of the void
4 Flusterstorm
4 Shattering Spree
3 Pithing Needle
I'd also consider some to lots of Pyroblast/Red Elemental Blast in your 75. Everyone plays blue in Vintage so they're never dead, and with Painter out on blue you can use them as a one mana Counterspell/Vindicate split card.
A couple Jace, the Mind Sculptor couldn't hurt for alt wincons either.
Places I'd look at cutting:
Lands - with 9 mana-producing artifacts, your deck is 31 mana sources and 29 actual cards. You can definitely trim down from 22. 18 is probably sufficient, if not a little less.
Timetwister - This card isn't actually all that insane outside of storm decks
Mana Drain - You don't have much in the way of outlets for your mana with this. It would probably be better as some other countermagic, like Mental Misstep, Flustersorm, Daze
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