Is it because of price? Search for the perfect addition to your deck. It has some inevitability to it, being equipment, but it's not exactly hard to remove, for most colors. That’s not a bad thing though! and it may piss off players and collectors who bought Workshop for its current value. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells. I probably won’t change it mind you because it still makes me laugh, but it’s the principle of the thing dang it! document.write( (new Date()).getFullYear()) © Copyright MTGO Traders. Add product to the cart . Is it because of price? Does anybody know? Mishra's Workshop; Avg Price $6,499.99 Buy on TCGPlayer Low $2,711.03 Avg $6,499.99 High $9,499.99 Mishra's Workshop. Yes it has four Missteps and two Flusterstorms in the main, but it also has 29 mana sources, main deck Ancient Grudge, main deck Nature’s Claim, and main deck Life from the Loam! An example is if league member doesn’t put any of their opponents on Dredge for that particular trimester they can play no grave hate and skew percentages towards any Blue or Shops deck they may expect to face. Instead we have Top 8s be one or two copies of Shops and/or one or two copies of Storm. The first thing that I want to say is that am incredibly grateful to all of the people in the Vintage SuperLeague, and the fact that it puts Vintage on such a large stage is an amazing thing. Skip ahead two years to the NYSE 3 where Chalice of the Void and Dig Through Time are still running wild and you have another deck built with the same principles crack the Top 4 of another 150+ person event. It just warps all the build decisions of all the blue decks in the format. 10/4/2004 The mana can’t be used to pay Echo costs. It's price isn't held up by demand but by scarcity. This deck ate Workshops alive. Cards from expansions and special sets (like From the Vault, Commander, Duel Decks, etc) are legal in the Legacy format on the date of release of the expansion or special set. Decks are constructed from 49 cards in your 1 commander's colours- the challenge is: everything must be converted mana cost 3 or less! It doesn't really keep blue decks in 'check,' though. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells. Because of that a majority of my arguments will be focused on defending Workshop’s place for the overall health of Vintage. What happened? There's a lot of talk right now about Workshop needing to be restricted in Vintage due to its dominance over a long period of time. A good majority of them want something from the Workshop decks, either Lodestone Golem or Mishra’s Workshop itself, to be limited to one copy. Purchase everything you need for a draft or purchase bot credits to use on our automated trading bots that are online 24/7. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. As much as I personally would love that kind of a format, I recognize that it would not be remotely healthy. Ultimately restricting either Lodestone Golem or Mishra’s Workshop will lead to a metagame where the best deck is whatever Combo deck can go off the fastest while still being able to protect itself from opposing Combo decks trying to do the same thing. Take a look at this BUG Fish list Michael Bonde used to win a 152 person event back in 2013. Power Artifact Antiquities (U) Enchant - Aura $229.99 . Banning workshop might drop the floor on format confidence and convince (many of) those players to move on. This statement was said a lot by the members of the Vintage Super League (or VSL for short) during its last season. $9.19. Ads by Fandom. I have a playset of Workshops and have played the deck in paper events a number of times but got bored of it so haven't played it recently. I looked away for a second, and it doubled in price. Hello all, I am getting into Tiny Leaders and I was wondering why Mishra's Workshop is banned. This thread is archived . 10/4/2004 You can spend the mana on costs on the spell’s text. ( Log Out / This is going to be a shorter section than the previous ones, but it’s still important to state. That being said, the VSL is unlike any situation you’d find in real life. Even if you have cheap interaction with their threats or a global reset button like Pulverize or Serenity in the sideboard Gush decks simply don’t have the number of mana sources to fight against a prison deck.