Vintage Gifts deck

The primary focus of the Vintage Gifts deck is to maintain card advantage until one of its limited win conditions can be used. Here is a Vintage deck, by Andrew Probasco, who took 2nd place at a tournament in Indianapolis, Indiana in 2005.

Please note that since this decklist was created, Gifts Ungiven, Brainstorm, Merchant Scroll and Thirst for Knowledge have all been Restricted in Vintage.

 Lands 2 Flooded Strand 2 Island 1 Library Of Alexandria 2 Polluted Delta 1 Snow-covered Island 1 Tolarian Academy 1 Tundra 2 Underground Sea 2 Volcanic Island

Artifacts 1 Black Lotus 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Goblin Charbelcher 1 Lotus Petal 1 Mana Crypt 1 Mana Vault 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire 2 Pithing Needle 1 Sol Ring

Creatures 1 Darksteel Colossus

Instants 1 Ancestral Recall 4 Brainstorm 1 Fact Or Fiction 4 Force Of Will 2 Gifts Ungiven 4 Mana Drain 1 Mystical Tutor 4 Thirst For Knowledge

Sorceries 1 Burning Wish 1 Demonic Tutor 2 Duress 2 Merchant Scroll 1 Recoup 1 Time Walk 1 Tinker 1 Yawgmoth's Will 