Or you could use cards like Merfolk Looter and pitch big, splashy spells into the graveyard you can flash back for cheap, like Ezuris Predation, Clone Legion, or Insurrection
This is especially true once you branch out to mana rocks and multicolor decks the best of two colors, especially if one of those colors is green, white, or red, is going to present ramp and acceleration options that will easily outshine most of blues incredibly shallow pool of generic playables
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Check out Stephen Menendians deck from the 2011 Vintage Championships: "Stephen Menendians 2011 Vintage Champs Deck" Creatures (10) 3 Trygon Predator 4 Dark Confidant 1 Blightsteel Colossus 2 Vendilion Clique Spells (36) 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Brainstorm 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Vampiric Tutor 4 Force of Will 4 Gush 4 Spell Pierce 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Ponder 1 Time Walk 1 Tinker 1 Yawgmoth's Will 4 Preordain 1 Fastbond 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire 2 Sensei's Divining Top Lands (14) 1 Island 1 Flooded Strand 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Polluted Delta 1 Volcanic Island 2 Tropical Island 3 Underground Sea 4 Scalding Tarn Sideboard (15) 1 Ancient Grudge 2 Ingot Chewer 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Lightning Bolt 1 Mountain 2 Pyroblast 1 Red Elemental Blast 1 Tormod's Crypt 1 Yixlid Jailer Trygon Predators role is clear in Vintage: munching on Moxes
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