Vintage Magic — Doran Blue vs. BUG Hermit
Channel: T1GlistenerElf
Date: 2019-01-18

When you think of Vintage, you think of powerhouses like… Doran?

I mean, sure, I guess. This is a largely unexplored format, so who knows? Maybe it can be a thing.

Meanwhile, I'm over here trying to win as soon as turn two with a banned Legacy card or two…
or thirteen!
(Twenty-one if we count multiple copies!!!)

The gameplan for my deck, aside from the usual Leovold midrange strategy, is to do the following:
1) Activate Hermit Druid, which mills through the rest of my library (since I have no basic lands;)
2) Trigger at least two copies of Narcomoeba;
3) Use excess creatures to flashback the two copies of Cabal Therapy to clear away problem cards;
4) Flashback Dread Return to reanimate Laboratory Maniac;
5) Finally, use one of the twelve draw spells (fourteen counting Snapcaster Mage and Time Walk, or you can just survive until your natural draw step) to trigger Laboratory Maniac and win the game.

Here's my decklist for you all:
Artifacts (4)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
Creatures (17)
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Hermit Druid
1 Laboratory Maniac
3 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
4 Narcomoeba
1 Snapcaster Mage
Enchantment (1)
1 Sylvan Library
Instants (10)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Gush
3 Mental Misstep
Sorceries (14)
2 Cabal Therapy
1 Deep Analysis
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Dread Return
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Painful Truths
1 Ponder
4 Preordain
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
Lands (14)
1 Bayou
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
3 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
3 Verdant Catacombs
Sideboard (15)
4 Energy Flux
3 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Null Rod
4 Ravenous Trap
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