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Monday, May 31st - Vintage Champs 2010 is two months away, so this seems like a reasonable time to catch up with the current state of the format. I get a lot of emails about various decks; most of my time playing and testing Vintage lately has had to do with Noble Fish, MUD, Oath of Druids, and Dredge, so I’m going to give you some updated versions of all of those decks today.

Monday, May 24th - The five individuals I chose to talk Vintage with in this article are clearly five of the most revered Vintage card-slingers ever to answer this metaphorical ‘call of the wild’: Luis Scott Vargas, Paul Mastriano, Rich Shay, Stephen Menendian, and Tommy Kolowith.

#01 "Espresso Stax" by Peter Ingram

#02 "Espresso Stax" by Raffaele Forino

#03 Goblins by Corey Mann

#04 "Happy Day" by Ryan Fischer

#05 Drain Tendrils by Nick Coss

#06 TPS by Jim Davis

#07 Tezzeret by Tim Taylor

#08 "Still Oath" by Austin Pollack

#01 Ruthless (Share your Food.dec) by Marco Deligos

#02 Jaderyl's Fish Accelerated Control by Shaun Lim

#03 TFF Eleven Sphere Aggro by Regin Gonzales

#04 Ruthless Workshop Aggro by Jay Pangasinan

#05 Rampage Tezz by Lance Asprec

#06 BUG Fish by Noel Yu

#07 TPS by Marcelle Fabie

#08 TSA by Bernard Faeh

#01 Green TPS by Roberto Sartini "Paxxu"

#02 Dark Tezz by Giarola Andrea "Adamaro"

#03 Stacker by David Calligaris "Project2501"

#04 Dark Red Gift by Luca Rona "ronny49"

#05 Stacker by Luca Corbetta "Madlucas"

#06 Stacker by Fabrizio De Nittis "Zio Brifa"

#07 Stacker by Lorenzo Manzoni "Red Devil"

#08 Stacker by Brian Pallas "Sion"

#01 "Stinfo" con Oath by Stefano Maggio

#02 Good Night's Gift by Francesco Stillio

#03 Dark Pure Gift by Luca Lovino "Ivanhoe de Faerie"

#04 Stacker by David Calligaris "Projet2501"

#05 TNT by Maicol Beltrame "Babybue"

#06 Funny Oath by Federico Biffi "Biffo"

#07 Ichorid by Marco Rosa "Nemesix"

#08 TPS by Andrea Saita "Andrethegame"

#01 MUD by Dylan Jolliffe

#02 Golem Stax by Blaine Christiansen

#03 Iona Oath by Jeff Huang

#04 Aggro - MUD by Eliot Davidoff

#05 Tezzless Tezz by John Anzaldo

#06 Tezzeret by Brett Allen

#07 Noble Fish by Eric Campusano

#08 The Deck by Patrick Greenfield

#01 Serum-Stax by Dylan Jolliffe

#02 Welder-Stax by Blaine Christiansen

#03 Oath by Jeff Huang

#04 Aggro-Stax by Eliot Davidoff

#05 Dark Tez by John Anzaldo

#06 Seeker by Brett Allen

#07 Fish by Eric Campusano

#08 The deck by Patrick Greenfield

#01 AggroMUD by Fabian Moyschewitz

#02 Remora by Carlos Fernández-Baillo

#03 Madness by Michael Lellouche

#04 Noble Fish by David Harald

#05 MUD by Max Wilhem Bruker

#06 AggroMUD by Marius Hausmann

#07 ANT by Pedro J. Sánchez

#08 AggroMUD by Andrés Madruga

23 people played 5 rounds of Vintage organized by ELD

17 people played 5 rounds of Vintage organized by Black Gold

18 people played 5 rounds of Vintage organized by Superstars Game Center

498 people played 9 rounds of Legacy organized by Bazaar of Moxen Team

347 people played 9 rounds of Vintage organized by Bazaar of Moxen Team

41 people played 6 rounds of Vintage organized by The Dutch Vintage Tournament Series

27 people played 5 rounds of Vintage organized by Xtreme Games

41 people played 6 rounds of Vintage

29 people played 5 rounds of Vintage

13 people played 5 rounds of Vintage organized by The Outpost Brussels

Tuesday, May 18th - Saturday, May 8th I played in a the Vintage portion of the Philly Open VI. Coming off a tournament where I did well is always awkward for me. For some reason, I’ve really struggled to string together successful back-to-back Vintage tournaments in which I repeated my deck choice from the previous tournament.