Cards Required For Vintage Competition At Worlds

[Thomas David Baker]

I'm hoping to win the Power 9 card for highest finish of an unpowered deck. If you have any of these (especially those marked with a * which I can't find to buy anywhere) let me know!

Got:

4 Grizzly Bears
4 Runeclaw Bear
24 Forest

Need:

4 Ashcoat Bear
4 Balduvian Bears
4 Bear Cub*
4 Forest Bear*
4 Striped Bears
4 Bearscape

# Sideboard
3 Pale Bears
3 River Bear
3 Golden Bear
2 Razorclaw Bear*
2 Spectral Bears
2 Werebear

Yes, I am prepared to spend 10 Euros entering this competition if I can assemble this amazing deck!

[Thomas David Baker]

It's a good idea, but I'm afraid it gives away that you don't have much experience with this archetype.

Imagine the following opening hand:

Bear Cub, Grizzly Bears, Balduvian Bears, Striped Bears, Chrome Mox, Forest, Forest

Yes, you can make a Turn 1 Bear Cub which is gamebreaking BUT what would you imprint?

Grizzly Bears? No way, that guy could come out next turn and be attacking for 2 the turn after that.
Balduvian Bears? This guy has protection from Duress and trades with Dark Confidant. Can't lose him.
Striped Bears? And take the risk of having no Turn 4 play?! Can't be done.

So probably now you can see the problem. The card quality is so high that imprinting anything actually reduces the power of the deck.

stevie_b said:

What about chrome mox for some first turn bear beats?

[Glenn Goldsworthy]

I love this deck it is indeed balls deep, there's no other way to play

[Nathan Gotlib]

if you have nothing to imprint might want to invest in a black lotus and a green mox, turn 1 bear cub AND turn one Striped Bears? now tha'ts ownage

[Thomas David Baker]

Honestly Nathan I know you're trying to help but I've worked on this deck for 35 years now and I know that there's no room maindeck for a Black Lotus. I've tried hard to fit it in but it just doesn't pull it's weight compared to, say, Forest Bear.

[Charlie Grover]

Nice deck. But wouldnt you rather play GR pandemonium? I beat a vintage dredge deck with this list one time..:

4 magus of the vineyard
4 wall of roots
4 primal forcemage
4 groudbreaker
4 timbermare

4 might of old krosa
4 pact of the titan
4 pandemonium
4 something else I cant remember :(


Best block deck ever. Go on. You know you want to.

Also note that you will surely lose the no power prize to the vintage dredge decks?

[Kieran Symington]

If you played Words of Wilding you could guarantee yourself a bear every turn instead of possibly drawing a useless land!

[Paul Laudano]

Have you seen the G/w Vintage bear list Tom?

[Thomas David Baker]

Oh man, are you going to spoil my dream by telling me this has been done before?

Paul Laudano said:

Have you seen the G/w Vintage bear list Tom?

[Nick Lovett]

I have the ashcoats, 1 cub iirc, 1 bearscape (careful, i love this card waaaaay too much to ever lose it! - it just has too many bears in it!)
Let me know if you still need them as I will have to get them next time I am in South Wales.
(Except for the Bearscape - that one lives under my pillow)

[Simon O'Keeffe]

No Viridian LoreBEARers against the artifact decks !?!