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I'm considering getting into Vintage, and I loved rocking out to AiR in Extended and did a port of it to Modern than I love playing.  My question though is, is it even a wise choice for Vintage anymore?  I'd like to get the thoughts of people who play competitive Vintage on Dragon Stompy's viability before I go thinking about making the investment on City of Traitors and Ancient Tomb .  Is it going to be worth more than just the fun of playing it?  Or will I just be randomly winning games?

Here's the list I'd be looking into to get started:

Creatures:
4 Magus of the Moon
4 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Rakdos Pit Dragon
4 Gathan Raiders
3 Arc-Slogger
2 Akroma, Angel of Fury

Spells:
4 Chrome Mox
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Blood Moon
4 Trinisphere
4 Seething Song

Lands:
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
11 Mountain

Akroma is there mostly to be something of a stunt double for Raiders.

I'm not too familiar with the format, but by imagining how it'd play, I'd personally go with:

-3 Trinisphere (obviously)
-2 Akroma, Angel of Fury (Does she ever hit the board?)

for

+1 Wheel of Fortune (New hand for 3 mana? Hell yeah)
+4 Mindbreak Trap (This would only really be bad against Flash/Hulk. Also good for stopping YawgWin/storm that, as far as I know, is ever-prevolent in the format)

The main problem is that everything this deck does, MUD does better, faster, and more reliably. It doesn't require colored mana. It can curve out on it's lands, so it doesn't have to rely on SSG/Moxen/Rituals for explosiveness. And it has more and better disruption pieces in the form of Spheres, which hit everything relevant (and just everything in the case of Sphere of Resistance), cost less than Moon/3Sphere/Magus, and play better with Chalice (by playing Chalice at strategic numbers to make Spheres more effective).

It's not a terrible idea, there's just unfortunately a better version of it.

Bump.  Here's what I've boiled the list down to for Vintage.  I don't play much of it, but I seem to be doing well enough as to not be a laughing stock.  I have a meta that doesn't use Red to thank for that.  If I turn 1 Bloodmoon effect, I tend to see them scoop because thay can't do anything.  They all have gotten to the point where they pretty much mull into an opening hand with FoW unless they see other options in hand.

Creatures:
4 Magus of the Moon
4 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Rakdos Pit Dragon
4 Gathan Raiders
4 Moltensteel Dragon

Spells:
2 Mox Opal
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Blood Moon
1 Trinisphere
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Seething Song

Lands:
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
4 Great Furnace
7 Mountain

Lodestone is probably going to make it into the SB, along with Red Elemental Blast, and possibly some combintaion of Sphere of Resistance and Ratchet Bomb.

I'll test out the Null Rods, but I don't like how it turns off Moltensteel Dragon.  It's not unheard of for me to pay my life 2 points at a time to help him firebreathe.