Crushing Vintage Without Power Nine: The Manaless Ichorid Primer
We all know the “complaints” folk have about Vintage… gripes such as “it’s a degenerate format,” or “there is a dubious level of skill required to succeed.” Perhaps the strongest moan involves the cost of the cards themselves. So what would you say to a competitive, powerful Vintage deck that uses exactly zero copies of the Power 9 cards… a deck that Stephen Menendian believes will warp the format for many months to come? Interested? Then read on…
I. Introduction The printing of Dread Return ensures that Vintage Ichorid will win every game by turn 4, and many on turn 3. That sort of certainty…
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