Quote Originally Posted by Solaran_X View Post
The problem is that there are quite a few "tuned" Vintage Aggro lists that require only minimum Power (typically a Lotus and on-color Mox[en]). Some of them look quite fun, like the mono-white one and the Vintage-Edition of Deadguy Ale.
OH man, there should be a vintage subforum!

First, as an aside, the requirements of vintage decks to run power is a regional one: tournaments in USA allow 15 proxies (or more), while tournaments in Europe allow no proxies. But it's common in European tournaments to give out significant prizes to the top-performing unpowered deck.

There's historically been very few good (pure) aggro decks in Vintage. I think the reason for this is two-fold: 1) there's fast and strong combos in vintage, which tend to provide a more efficient wincon than swinging with dudes or bolts to the face, leading people who might want to play aggro to play combo instead, and leading people who do play aggro to lose to combo players. And 2) decks that get bigger dudes into play using, eg, oath of druids or mishra's workshop. That being said, here's a pure aggro deck that got 2nd in a 41-player tournament: http://morphling.de/printview.php?c=1580&d=2. (41-players is pretty respectable for vintage events. Also note he lost in the finals to Oath of Druids.)

Thus, the successful aggro decks have to be at least half focused on disruption. In vintage this means artifact destruction in addition to the discard and wastelands common in legacy. This basically define the "fish" archetype. There's sort of a careful balance a fish deck has to run between playing aggressive creatures and disruptive creatures. It's not quite as simple as taking a successful legacy deck and adding moxes and a lotus. There are, of course, successful ports of legacy decks to vintage, but it requires some testing and development to get the build right. And I think this would be a great benefit of a Vintage subforum here! We could get great legacy players thinking about how best to bring aggro decks and successful legacy builds to the vintage format. It's win-win!

This thread is already full of great vintage discussion...