Welcome to a rare Vintage What’s the Play? which was sent in by one of my new teammates, Andrea Mengucci.
Deck List: Vintage TPS
Lands1 x Swamp1 x Badlands1 x Bloodstained Mire1 x Library of Alexandria4 x Polluted Delta1 x Tolarian Academy4 x Underground Sea
Spells1 x Black Lotus1 x Lion’s Eye Diamond1 x Lotus Petal1 x Mana Crypt – Book Promos1 x Mox Emerald1 x Mox Jet1 x Mox Pearl1 x Mox Ruby1 x Mox Sapphire1 x Ancestral Recall1 x Brainstorm4 x Cabal Therapy1 x Thoughtseize4 x Dark Ritual4 x Duress4 x Gitaxian Probe1 x Mana Vault1 x Ponder1 x Sol Ring1 x Vampiric Tutor2 x Cabal Ritual1 x Demonic Tutor1 x Hurkyl’s Recall1 x Time Walk1 x Necropotence1 x Timetwister1 x Wheel of Fortune1 x Yawgmoth’s Will1 x Tendrils of Agony4 x Dark Petition1 x Yawgmoth’s Bargain
You sideboarded as so:
Out
In
The Situation
Your board:
Your hand:
It’s the start of your main phase, and you have zero cards in your graveyard. Your opponent has no mana untapped, so they are shut down completely by the Defense Grid. They are at 20 life.
You can win this turn.
What’s the Play?
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